News @ UNB Libraries

We Want to Hear from All Students!!!

Thank you to all of you who participated in the UNB Libraries Space Survey last week. We appreciate your comments, and it is valuable to have your feedback so that we can plan for the future, and build on our improvements to library space.

As a follow up to last week’s survey, we want to connect with those of you we didn’t catch last week – including those of you who don’t use the libraries regularly. Please fill out our brief survey, and register for a chance to win $50 in UCard Cash. The survey will be available until December 4th 2018.  

Cut & Past: Assemblages & Self-Portraits

We are pleased to present the debut exhibit of Phil Hall’s small constructions, a selection of recent tinkerings. The exhibit will be on display in the Harriet Irving Library (1st floor) from December 1st to January 1st.

Phil Hall, who is Writer-in Residence at UNB, is an award-winner poet with many books to his credit, most recently: Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall — a Selected Collage (2015), and Conjugation (2016). He is also a visual artist, working in collage, and says that a “cut & paste” method informs his poetry as well.

Flu Season is here!

Get your flu vaccine at the HIL Flu Clinic:

When:  Wednesday, November 14th, 2018

10:00am – 2:00pm

Where:  Reading Room (Rm. 109), Harriet Irving Library, UNBF

Cost:  $15 for students, $25 for faculty and staff

Cash or cheque only  – due at the time of the injection.

Some people may qualify for free flu immunization.

Please note that you will be required to wait for 20 minutes following your injection for your own safety!

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In addition to the HIL Flu Clinic, flu shots are now available at the Student Health Centre and at one of the following clinics on campus:

• Wednesday, Oct. 24th: 10:00am – 2:00pm at Human Resources Dept., Room 106 – near HR in Physics and Admin. building

• Wednesday, Oct. 31st: 10:00am – 2:00pm at Ludlow Hall, Room 26

• Thursday, Nov 1st: 10:00am – 2:00pm at STU – J.B. O’Keefe Fitness Centre

• Friday, Nov 2nd: 10:00am – 2:00pm at UNB Student Union Building – Cafeteria near food vendors

• Thursday, Nov 15th: 10:00am – 2:00pm at Head Hall, Room 302

• Friday, Nov 16th: 10:00am – 2:00pm at UNB Bookstore

Cost: $15 for students, $25 for staff and faculty.

Winning books from the 36th annual Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada are currently on display at the Harriet Irving Library in the H.R. Stewart Exhibition Room until 9 November 2018.

Viewing hours are Monday to Friday, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm.

The Harriet Irving Library on the UNB Fredericton campus is the only New Brunswick venue hosting the book exhibit.

Of special note this year is a winning title in the Limited Editions category co-published by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.  Designer FRANCES HUNTER tied for third prize for her work on Oscar Cahén, by Roald Nasgaard … [et al.] (Beaverbrook Art Gallery & The Cahén Archives).

This year’s judges, Sue Colberg, Shelley Gruendler, and Frank Viva, selected 38 winning titles from 235 submissions, from 10 provinces and 107 publishers.  For a list of winners see the Alcuin Society website.

The Alcuin Society is a Vancouver-based, non-profit society for the support and appreciation of fine books. In addition to the annual Book Design Competition, the Society publishes a quarterly journal, Amphora, and organizes lectures, workshops, exhibitions, and field visits on various aspects of the book.

For more information, please contact Archives & Special Collections by email archives@unb.ca or by telephone (453-4748).

HALLOWEEN AT THE HIL

[ Wednesday, October 31, 2018,  Milham Room, Harriet Irving Library ]

   CELEBRATION OF FRANKENSTEIN  [ 1:00pm – 2:30pm ]

Join us for a Halloween celebration of Frankenstein and the public humanities! Project leaders Sue Sinclair & Elizabeth Effinger (UNB, Department of English) along with UNB student participants and some project partners will be at the Harriet Irving Library to celebrate a special SSHRC-funded exhibition and discuss the project: what it is, why it is, who’s involved, and what ideas and relationships have emerged from the process.

On the bicentennial of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, this exhibition showcases the result of an artistic collaboration that brings together university students and members of the Walls to Bridges Collective, a group of incarcerated and non-incarcerated women dedicated to creating collaborative and innovative learning communities within correctional settings. Participants each “erased” several pages of the novel, strategically blotting out words to create a new literary work of art: an “erasure,” a long poem piggybacking on Shelley’s original work.

The novel has been reassembled into a rich and crinkly book, which will be on display. Visitors will also see blown-up images of some of the individual pages and statements from participants and witness the unveiling of the project’s newest “hideous progeny” created in partnership with UNB’s MakerSpace.

FREE  |  All Welcome |  Light fare and refreshments provide

  MOVIE MARATHON  [ 3:00pm – 8:00pm ]

3:00pm – 3:30pm  *  Frankenstein from the series “The Secret Life of Books”
3:30pm – 4:30pm  *  Mary Shelley: The Birth of Frankenstein
4:30pm – 5:30pm  *  B R E A K
5:30pm – 6:50pm  *  Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff
6:50pm – 8:00pm  *  Bride of Frankenstein

FREE |  All Welcome |  Popcorn provided

Due to recent changes to the UNB email system,  UNB Libraries  Document Delivery messages and article links may have been directed to patrons’  junk mail or trash.  If you were expecting an article, please check your Junk mail.  If you cannot locate the item, please contact the Document Delivery Unit at docdel@unb.ca (Fredericton)  or Acquisitions and Document Delivery Services at hwkacq@unb.ca (Saint John)