This Summer term a team of five librarians will be working to provide research help to students, faculty, and researchers in the UNBF faculties of Science, Engineering, Computer Science, and Forestry & Environmental Management, as well as the UNBSJ Faculty of Science, Applied Science and Engineering.
Librarians offering Virtual Office Hours using MS Teams, available for research help via email, and by appointment via MS Bookings:
- Barry Cull (Teaching & Learning Librarian, UNBF)
- Tatiana Zaraiskaya (STEM Librarian, UNBF)
- Saran Croos (Engineering & Computer Science Librarian, UNBF)
Librarians available for research help via email, and by appointment via MS Bookings:
- Alex Goudreau (Science & Health Sciences Librarian, UNBSJ)
- Sally Armstrong (Entrepreneurship Librarian, UNBF)
About UNB Libraries STEM team:
BARRY CULL, MLIS
Barry has been a teaching and learning librarian at the University of New Brunswick for over two decades, and is currently located at the Science & Forestry Library. He helps students and faculty understand, access, and use research and scholarship. He helps researchers use appropriate databases and other research tools and services, and is especially interested in motivating students to develop their creative thinking and deep reading skills, on paper and on-screen. This is also his ongoing area of research, and a selection of his publications can be found on his web profile.
TATIANA ZARAISKAYA, MLIS, PhD
Tatiana works with five departments in the Faculty of Science, including Earth Sciences, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, as well as the Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Management. Tatiana helps graduate as well as undergraduate students finding, accessing and evaluating scholarly research information. She provides virtual group sessions as well as in-person consultations on how to use academic databases such as Scopus, Inspec, SciFinder, IEEE and more, the citation management program Mendeley, and how to deposit research datasets into UNB data repository Dataverse. If you have any questions or need help with your research project contact Tatiana using any method outlined below at any time!
SARAN CROOS, MPA, MLIS
Saran has been the Engineering and Computer Science librarian at the Engineering and Computer Science library for nearly eight years. In this capacity, as the liaison librarian for the Engineering and Computer Science faculties, he provides instruction, reference and collection development services for the faculty, and both undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to his liaison responsibilities, he also provides annual workshops in patent searching and graduate seminars during the fall and winter terms. Saran is also part of Canadian national library organizations such as CARL, and his research interest includes information seeking behaviour of STEM researchers, and equity, diversity and inclusion within Canadian academic libraries.
ALEX GOUDREAU, MA, MLIS
Alex is the liaison librarian to the Faculty of Science, Applied Science and Engineering on the Saint John campus. She assists undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and researchers with their information needs. This can include helping to find articles for assignments, instruction on navigating databases and evaluating sources, buying books, and consulting on systematic reviews. Alex is a member of, and provides knowledge synthesis support for, the Centre for Research in Integrated Care and the UNB Saint John Joanna Briggs Institute Centre of Excellence.
SALLY ARMSTRONG, MI
Sally is the Entrepreneurship Librarian providing research support to all students, faculty, and researchers involved in entrepreneurship or considering commercialization opportunities for their research. She provides research support in areas such as competitor and customer intelligence, market validation, and emerging technology trends. She also provides expert instruction on resources including Frost & Sullivan, BCC Research, Pitchbook, and many other entrepreneurship databases. As a member of UNB’s Entrepreneurship Working Group she organized last year’s Global Entrepreneurship Week on campus which included a graduate seminar on conducting market research.
