University of New Brunswick Libraries Electronic Text Centre

The Electronic Text Centre at UNB Libraries is a vital part of the University of New Brunswick Libraries' commitment to enhancing research, teaching, and resource management for scholars and students. A recognized leader in electronic scholarly communications, humanities computing, and digital libraries, the Centre is a collaborative and interdisciplinary enterprise undertaking initiatives that advance technologies in these domains.

Launch of Synergies

The Synergies Humanities and Social Sciences Research Infrastructure was launched on Wednesday May 27th in Ottawa as part of the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Synergies is a national network for the production, storage, and access to digitized knowledge produced in Canada. Synergies was awarded $5.8 million by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation.

ETC Presents at Open Repository Conference

A poster by two Centre staff, Jason Nugent and Jennifer Whitney, will be presented at the poster session of the 4th annual international Open Repositories Conference to be held May 18th - 21st, 2009 at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Each Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Custom Aggregations of Fedora Digital Objects will be presented by Whitney.

Launch of the MacDonald Family Letters, 1779-1801

The MacDonald Family Letters, 1779-1801 was launched at the 18th Atlantic Canada Studies Conference held in Charlottetown, PEI in May 2009. This collection is a collaborative project sponsored by the Centre and the CRC in Atlantic Canada Studies. It consists of ten letters written by John and Helen MacDonald that shed light on both the land question and life as an immigrant on Prince Edward Island. These letters are housed at the Prince Edward Island Public Archives and Records Office.

 Feature: RCMP Security Bulletins

From its inception in 1919-1920 the RCMP (initially the Royal Northwest Mounted Police) security service compiled periodic reports on "subversive" activity in Canada, which were circulated to the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Through use of Canada's Access to Information legislation Gregory S. Kealey and Reg Whitaker acquired copies of the extant Bulletins , which are now held by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Eight volumes of Bulletins have been published, covering the years 1919 to 1945.

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