News @ UNB Libraries

Our Fredericton Libraries are offering extended hours prior to and during the upcoming exam period.  Hours are listed below:

HARRIET IRVING LIBRARY (Nov 26 – Dec 18)
Monday – Friday 8:00 am – Midnight
Saturday – Sunday 10:00 am – Midnight

SCIENCE & FORESTRY LIBRARY (Nov 26 – Dec 18)
Monday – Sunday 8:00 am – Midnight

ENGINEERING LIBRARY (Dec 3 – Dec 18)
Monday – Thursday 8:00 am – Midnight
Friday 8:00 am – 11:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 am – 11:00 pm
Sunday 11:00 am – Midnight

Closing hours will change for the last exam day, please check at individuals libraries.

UNB Libraries’ staff wishes everyone the best of luck during exams!

Enjoy reading the daily news online in newspapers from around the world!

Press Display is a newspaper database that provides access to the current news in 2200 newspapers from around the world. Rather than simple text, articles are displayed in full-colour and full-image newspapers from 97 countries in 54 different languages. Newspapers are searchable and most have a rolling 60-day archive.

Here are some newspaper titles that you will find in Press Display:
• Sporti Shqiptare (Albania)
• Jornal dos Desportos (Angola)
• Golos Armenii Russian edition (Armenia)
• Sunday Tasmanian (Australia)
• Azer News (Azerbaijan)
• Litoral Norte News (Brazil)
• Poslovni Dnevnik (Croatia)
• Nordjyske Stiftstidende (Denmark )
• AlShabab (Egypt)
• Osterbottens Tidning (Finland)
• Le Figaro (France)
• Osterhofener Zeitung (Germany)
• Naftemporiki (Greece)
• South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
• Vilaggazdasag (Hungary)
• Divya Bhaskar (India)
• Wicklow People (Ireland)
• Jerusalem Post (Israel)
• El Nuevo Dia (Puerto Rico)
• Lianhe Zaobao (Singapore)
• Pattaya People Weekly (Thailand)
• Washington Times-Herald (USA)
• The Thao & Van Hoa (Viet Nam)
• The Zimbabwean (Zimbabwe)

Access Press Display to stay in touch with current news from around the world!

For help with any of UNB Libraries’ resources, contact the HIL Research Help Desk in person, by telephone (453-3546), by email, or by Ask Us.

The Eileen Wallace Children’s Literature Collection is pleased to announce its 2012 Fellowship Lecture, “Banning Magic: The Fairy Tale Under Lenin and Stalin” to be presented by Dr. Megan Swift, Associate Professor, University of Victoria.

The fairy tale was a highly contested genre under Lenin and Stalin, becoming so embattled over the course of the 1920s and 30s that school children conducted trials of Cinderella, Father Frost (the Russian Santa Claus) and other folk and fairytale figures accused of being ‘anti-Soviet elements.’ This lecture will explore the attempt to ban magical content in children’s literature after the Russian Revolution of 1917. A selection of books used in Dr. Swift’s research will be on display outside the collection.

Please join us in the Wallace Collection (Room 413, Harriet Irving Library) on Tuesday, November 13^th at 1:00pm.

Dr. Swift is an Associate Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Victoria and the 2012 Wallace Research Fellow. She specializes in modernist literature, art and culture and is currently working on a book called Fairytale Nation: Illustrated Children’s Literature Under Lenin and Stalin, 1917-53.

Our Libraries will be open on Sunday, November 11, please see listings below for operating hours at each location:

HARRIET IRVING LIBRARY              1:00 pm – 11:00 pm
SCIENCE & FORESTRY LIBRARY     1:00 pm – 11:00 pm
ENGINEERING LIBRARY –                 1:00 pm –  11:00 pm

Access a complete listing of hours.

Flu Season is here!

Get your flu vaccine at the HIL Flu Clinic:

When:  Thursday, November 8th, 2012

9:00 am – 2:30 pm

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

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

Please note that you will be required to wait for 15 minutes following your injection for your own safety!

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 31st: 9:00am – 2:30pm at Currie Center, front plaza lobby
• Thursday, Nov 1st: 11:00am – 3:30pm at SUB Ballroom
• Friday, Nov 2nd: 9:00am – 2:30pm at IUC Physics & Admin, Room 106 (HR)
• Wednesday, Nov 7th: 9:30am – 1:00pm at STU Gym
• Friday, Nov 9th: 9:00am – 2:30pm at CC Jones Student Services Centre, Room 024
• Wednesday, Nov 14th: 9:30am – 1:00pm at STU Gym
• Thursday, Nov 15th: 9:00am – 2:30pm at University Bookstore
• Friday, Nov 16th: 9:00am – 2:30pm at CC Jones Student Services Centre, Room 024

Cost: $15 for students, $25 for all others.
Flu Immunization Clinics are open to staff, faculty, students and friends.

We can only accept cash or cheque at the time of the injection!

Please note that you will be required to wait for 15 minutes following your injection for your own safety!

SPANISH EMBASSY FILM SERIES PRESENTS: Flores de Otro Mundo/Flowers from Another World

The Spanish Embassy, UNB Libraries, and the Dept. of Culture & Language Studies present the award-winning Spanish film, “Flores de Otro Mundo/Flowers from Another World” from 1999.  This free public screening will be held on Wednesday, Nov 7, 2012 at 7:00 pm in the Milham Room (Room 100), Harriet Irving Library, UNB Campus (free parking).

Based on a true story, this is a melodrama, written and directed by one of the foremost modern women filmmakers in Spain, Icíar Bollaín.  Santa Eulalia is a small Spanish town that is losing many of its jobs and young people to corporate agriculture and the lure of big cities. The men of the town, in an effort to find partners, organize a visit for prospective singles. From diverse backgrounds, Patricia, Milady and Marirrosi arrive and expose the tensions between sexual liberation, patriarchal society and modernity. This film examines the intersections of racism, sexism and the remnants of colonialism in contemporary Spain.

Trailer: //youtu.be/2Dq7QP3iPGU (Spanish only)

The film is presented in Spanish with English subtitles and will be briefly introduced by Dr. Sophie Lavoie (Culture and Language Studies, UNB). All are welcome.

Please note, the next film in our series –Días de futbol/Soccer Days- will be shown on Dec. 5. Save the date!