News @ UNB Libraries

Are you a graduate or undergraduate student currently enrolled at UNB or STU? UNB Libraries is designing a new website in 2009 and we want your help to do it!

Between November 17 – November 19 our libraries are holding a series of focus groups that will help us to develop a new face for the library website.

Even if you don’t use our website much…that’s informative too! Tell us why and what you use instead. What could we do to improve your experience?

Food will be provided and all participants will receive a $25 honorarium. Focus group sessions will take place on the Fredericton and Saint Johncampuses of UNB from November 17-19 between 5:00pm – 7:00pm.

Interested? Contact Susan Oliver (Email: newlib@unb.ca or Tel: 452-6103) no later than November 12, 2008.

We want to learn from YOU!

Students can scan photos, images or documents using a new scanning station situated in the HIL Learning Commons.

Basic instructions for use and copyright information are posted beside the scanner. Research Help Desk staff can offer assistance if necessary.

All library patrons please note the following changes to our hours during the Remembrance Day holiday (Tuesday, November 11):

Engineering Library

1:00pm – 11:00 pm

Harriet Irving Library

1:00pm – 11:00 pm

Science & Forestry Library

1:00pm – 11:00 pm

Gerard V. LaForest Law Library

12noon – 11:00 pm

Ward Chipman Library (UNBSJ)

1:00pm – 9:00 pm

Access to Fall hours in our libraries is quick and easy.

Did you know that many library databases will let you save a search so that you don’t have to reconstruct it later on?

To find out more, sign up for a MyDatabases workshop at the Harriet Irving Library on either Nov. 4 or 5.

For more details and to register, go to the library’s Cool Tools website at:
//www.lib.unb.ca/instruction/CoolTools.html

The pizza is free and the workshop just might prove to be invaluable!

When: Either Oct. 29 or Oct. 30
Where: Harriet Irving Library – Seminar Room (Room 109)
Time: 7-9pm

These free student workshops will provide general academic writing and citation tips, with a focus on how the APA style handles the citation of e-sources, plus some hands-on automatic formatting using QuickBib and Refworks.

PLEASE NOTE: Spaces are limited and students must pre-register at: //unb.ca/ctd/ (sessions are listed under the title “Pizza & Plagiarism”)

Sessions are a cooperative effort between UNB Libraries and the Student Union

Like to learn more about the library’s documentary and feature film collection? Sign up for our “Cool Tools” Film Collection workshop.

The session will offer an introduction to the library’s film collection and look at the issues surrounding the role and the use of films for teaching and research. All faculty, students, and staff are welcome.

As space is limited, please register at: //unb.ca/ctd/