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The Cardplayers by William Sydney Mount The fall 2010 ZSR Library Lecture Series kicks off on Tuesday, September 28, at a special location. Our first event will take place at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, where managing curator Allison Slaby will lead a guided tour of the museum’s fall exhibition of nineteenth-century genre... Continue reading “Lecture Series Highlights” ›
Gretchen Edwards (’10) As in the past, ZSR offers blogs, wikis, consulting and workshops for WFU community members. Over the summer, several librarians joined the campus Cisco WebEx™ pilot. This fall, ZSR welcomes the WFU Cisco Fellow: Gretchen Edwards (’10). Gretchen will spend the next year on Cisco-related projects as well as working with faculty... Continue reading “Educational Technology Update” ›
The library will host workshops this fall on: Audience response systems ("clickers") The new devices available for check-out Zotero, a basic, open-source citation manager, and EndNote, an advanced citation manager. View these and other events! Additionally, find supporting documentation for Zotero, EndNote and clickers on the library website. Continue reading “Upcoming Technology Workshops” ›
In the 2009-2010 academic year, library faculty worked with more students on research than ever before. Librarians conducted 221 library instruction sessions for over 4000 students, an increase of 55% over the previous year. In addition, library faculty worked one-on-one with 686 students in personal research sessions, an increase of 63%. The enrollment in LIB100... Continue reading “Library Instruction Soars” ›
As explained in the previous issue, the library will move older journal volumes to the off-site storage facility, which is scheduled to open this winter. In preparation for the opening, some journals are already being boxed and bear the location “Interim Storage” in the catalog. Please use the request form if you need an article... Continue reading “Journals Volumes Moving to Off-Site Storage” ›
Electronic Journal Backfiles The ZSR Library recently bought online access to older volumes of over 1,300 electronic journals in ScienceDirect and SpringerLink. The content spans the curriculum and includes such leading titles as Tetrahedron, Animal Behaviour and World Development. While many of the journals were already available online from the current issue back to the... Continue reading “Database News” ›
This summer the ZSR library partnered with our friends at Information Systems and Computer Science to examine the use of thin clients in different areas of the library. We put the machines in three areas – Public use areas, Circulation desk, and Resource Services. Not only were these thin client machines (meaning that they ran... Continue reading “Thin Client pilot project at ZSR Library” ›
One of the students in my LIB100 class brought in an old Bible and asked me to repair it. I figured this might be a nice gesture, so I did. The Bible came from Israel and has wooden covers. Each cover has a small circular place in which water and soil from Israel has been... Continue reading “Preservation in LIB100” ›
Alexandre Exquemelin’s first hand account of the life of a pirate in the Spanish Main is the source of much of today’s pirate lore. From Long John Silver to Jack Sparrow, fictional pirates have their roots in Exquemelin’s 17th century bestseller. The History of the Bucaniers of America has been called the ur-text of pirate... Continue reading “History of the Bucaniers of America, by Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin” ›
Beginning this semester, the Z. Smith Reynolds Library will begin circulating new, emerging technologies along with its other multimedia equipment from The Bridge. These items are available to all students, faculty, and staff of the University, and can be borrowed for up to three days at a time, checked out on a first-come, first-served basis.... Continue reading “New Technologies Available at ZSR” ›