News @ UNB Libraries

Due to a scheduled UNB ITS outage, the UNB Libraries website and all online services, including document delivery and email, will be unavailable on Sunday, May 6th between 6am and 4pm.

Harriet Irving Library will NOT be open on Sunday, May 6th as previously scheduled.

Details regarding the outage are available from UNB’s ITS Services at //www.unb.ca/fredericton/studentservices/enews/view/view.cgi?article=6061*5

We apologize for any inconvenience.

UNB Libraries’ staff wish you the very best of luck on your exams and every success to all students who will be graduating.

Just a reminder that computers and quiet study spaces are in high demand at the moment. As such, we ask that you please respect everyone’s academic needs.

If you are studying in the Harriet Irving Library, keep in mind that the Milham Room (Room 100) and the study carrels on the 4th floor are the quietest areas and most conducive to study. Also, Room 310 is now open as a comfortable new study area.

Need assistance finding a quiet space? Check with the research desks in any of our libraries.

Good luck everyone!

UNB Libraries are offering extended hours prior to and during the upcoming exam period.

Hours are listed below:

HARRIET IRVING LIBRARY (March 26 – April 20)
Monday – Friday 8:00 am – Midnight
Saturday – Sunday 10:00 am – Midnight

SCIENCE & FORESTRY LIBRARY (March 26 – April 20)
Monday – Sunday 8:00 am – Midnight

ENGINEERING LIBRARY (April 2 – April 20)
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

HANS W. KLOHN COMMONS (March 16 – April 21)
Monday – Sunday 8:00 am – Midnight

PLEASE NOTE: Closing hours change during Easter Weekend (April 6th to April 9th) and on the last exam day (April 20th). Check individual library hours.

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

I am pleased to announce that we are in the middle of the second compilation of
Books that Inspire! As the Director of Libraries, I believe that books and reading are fundamental, especially as part of the university experience. One description of university impact comes from a wonderful book written by Elizabeth W. Brewster entitled The Invention of Truth:

“I was the Dreamer, they the Dream,” Wordsworth wrote of himself and his surroundings in his college days at Cambridge, at least on his first arrival. Do university students now have this feeling of strangeness, of entering a new world where they hardly recognize themselves? Certainly I wondered at times if I were dreaming in those early days at the University of New Brunswick.

I am sure today’s university students share this sense of wonder at discovering new and challenging ideas that will last a lifetime. When I look back, it was during my own undergraduate years that I discovered so many authors, one book leading to the next, until I had read every book they had published. Wonderful memories! There are millions of books that are not on any course reading list, yet would provide amazing and transformative experiences if opened. That is the incredible power of sharing your experience of the important books that have gone through your hands and changed your lives.

So far this year, the submissions are wide-ranging and thought-provoking. I encourage all faculty and staff to recall the books that have had an impact on their thinking and share the titles and the reasons with our community.

Great reading–discover the Books that Inspire!

John Teskey

Director of Libraries (Fredericton)

UNBSJ Library Document Delivery Services at the Hans W. Klohn Commons is conducting a very short survey of UNBSJ students, faculty and staff who use the service.  The user survey can be found at:  //www.surveymonkey.com/s/DocDelSurvey and should take less than 5 minutes to complete.

Thanks to all who complete this survey.

This session will include a brief presentation on UNB’s new Copyright Policy and Copyright Guidelines, along with a Q & A period.

When:  Friday, March 30 at 10:00 a.m.

Where: Harriet Irving Library — Electronic Text Centre Lab  (Rm. 519)

Copyright sessions with an emphasis on the needs of course instructors continue to be offered periodically. Additional sessions will be added in response to demand. Please let us know if you or your department or faculty has an interest in having an additional session scheduled.

For further information about copyright issues or sessions, please see Copyright at UNB or contact Josh Dickison (447-3378).