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The first step towards honouring the achievements and contributions of Black Canadians and people of African descent is a commitment to learning their legacy.

Here are some texts, films, and online resources from the library’s collection to help members of the UNB community begin or continue that journey.

Databases

• Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: A Selection of Primary Sources
• Black Thought and Culture
• Empire Online
• Slavery, Abolition & Social Justice

Select Books

• Black Canadians: History, Experiences, Social Conditions by Joseph Mensah (2010)
• The Blacks in Canada: A History by Robin Winks (1997)
• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (2018)
• The Skin We're in: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole (2020)
• Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt (2020)
• More books about Black History in Canada

Select Films

• From the Library of Black History: Black Eagles. Tony Brown Productions, 2018.
• From the Library of Black History: Booker T. Washington Freedom Trail – the Spirit of Black Higher Education. Tony Brown Productions, 2018.
• Gates, Henry Louis, et al., directors. African-American Lives: The Promise of Freedom. Films Media Group, 2011.
• Explore more films at UNB Libraries

  

Subject Guides

• Guide to African History
• Guide to the Loyalist Collection: Black History

Also check out the blog posts on Atlantic Loyalist Connections

• The Importance of the Book of Negroes
• Naming Culture in the Book of Negroes
• Named in Freedom: Children in the Book of Negroes
• In Sickness and in Health: the Black Refugees at Hammonds Plains, winter 1827
• To be free or not to be: that is the question

UNB Libraries is dedicated to developing critical information and digital literacy skills within our undergraduate and graduate students. For the 2020/2021 academic year, librarians have been developing a wide range of digital materials to support faculty and instructors, whether instruction will be provided in-person, or remotely via Alternative Delivery Methods (ADM).

To incorporate either synchronous, or asynchronous library instruction into your course for winter term, please reach out to the Liaison Librarian in your discipline to discuss content and selected delivery platform, if other than D2L. Librarians are also available for consultation regarding instructional design for class assignments, or activities that incorporate library research skills or resources.

Also, consider including a relevant Library Help Video or Research Guide in your D2L course shell, along with Liaison Librarian contact information. The inclusion of this information will help familiarize students with the people available to help them, and introduce key resources and tips tailored to your discipline or course.

Other options include:

• Library instruction on a wide range of cross-disciplinary topics such as systematic reviews, government statistics/data, GIS/maps, entrepreneurship, Research Data Management (RDM), citation management software, Open Access (OA) and copyright.
• One-on-one or small group consultations for students in your class
• Research Toolkit: either utilize selected library basics modules, or assign the entire Toolkit for credit
• Ask Us: promote to students as the place to turn to ask research questions from anywhere in the world!

Learn about archival research at New Brunswick archives during December's virtual GEAR (Graduate Essentials of Academic Research) session!

World of Archives

Tuesday, December 8

11:00 am - Noon

Have you ever wondered how to identify relevant archival collections for your research, or how to access primary documents?

This hour-long workshop will begin with an overview of how archives function and will be followed with an introduction to some of the major collections held at UNB and the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.

This session will appeal to graduate students in the humanities.

When registering please indicate your area of research interest.

Instructor: Christine Lovelace (UNB Archives & Special Collections) and Heather Lyons (Provincial Archives of New Brunswick)

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Are you a Graduate Student looking to boost your research skills? Check out our virtual Graduate Essentials of Academic Research (GEAR) session this November:

Intro to Zotero

Wednesday, November 18  •  11am - Noon

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use citation management tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

Instructor: Richelle Witherspoon

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Managing citations with Mendeley

Tuesday, November 24  •  11am - Noon

This session gives an overview of Mendeley and covers the basics of using Mendeley for reference management as well as advanced functions such as editing citation style, using 'Watch folder', creating groups, and sharing references.

 Learn how to:
    •    create Mendeley account
    •    add, edit and organize references
    •    create bibliographies and manage PDF documents
    •    collaborate, use social networking options and discover new research in your field

Instructor: Tatiana Zaraiskaya

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Click here for more information on the GEAR series!

UNB Libraries is pleased to make our print collections available to UNB and STU students, faculty, and staff. We are offering a pickup service for on-shelf, circulating materials.

Our Pick-Up service is easy to use:

• Sign in to the library catalogue (UNB WorldCat)
• Search for the items you need
• Select the Request Item button, and your pickup location (for users unable to retrieve from a designated library location, please put your address in the Notes Field, and items will be mailed to you)
• Once your items are ready, you will receive an email notification.

Things to note:

• For borrowers outside the Fredericton or Saint John regions, a limited number of requested items will be mailed.
• Allow at least one business day for requested items to be processed and prepared by staff.

Help:

If you have any questions, please contact:

• Fredericton: circhi@unb.ca
• Saint John: hwkcommons@unb.ca.

For assistance with identifying materials for your research, or questions about our services, please contact AskUs.

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