Do you wish your students would turn in well-researched, perfectly cited papers? Then invite a librarian to your class! Library instruction sessions can be as short as a five-minute advertisement for the Personal Research Session service or as long as a multi-day, in-depth, intensive research program. Librarians can explain research strategies and introduce useful reference... Continue reading “Want Better Student Projects? Come in for Library Instruction!” ›
Copyright law, as it applies to and impacts higher education, currently faces increased scrutiny and challenges from multiple directions. As many campuses quieted for the summer months, copyright discussions heated up, fueled by a lawsuit filed by video producers against UCLA, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeal’s discouraging verdict on the first sale doctrine, which... Continue reading “Copyright on Trial” ›
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, ZSR has contributed four collections to the online portal “Civil War in the American South.” The portal includes digital versions of collections from 1850-1865 held by members of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries. The collections contributed by ZSR are: Confederate Broadsides Collection – Over 250... Continue reading “Civil War Collections & the Biblical Recorder Now Online” ›
Detail from the title page of the 1612 octavo edition of the King James Bible God’s Sacred Word Amongst UsHistoric Bibles from the ZSR Library Rare Books CollectionOn exhibit in the Special Collections Reading RoomSeptember 2011-January 2012 The title of this exhibit, God’s Sacred Word Amongst Us, comes from the dedication of the English translation... Continue reading “Historic Bibles on View” ›
Streaming Media The ZSR Library has added access to hundreds of documentary films, counseling instructional videos, and opera productions, for streaming over the Internet to your computer. These video collections also allow you to create playlists and short clips to share with other users or for classroom use. Another streaming video collection, the PBS Video... Continue reading “Database News” ›
On Friday, September 9th, the Z. Smith Reynolds Library hosted a screening of the film “Zombieland” (courtesy of SAF funds) from 7-8:30pm and then three games of Humans V. Zombies from 9-11pm! Thirty students attended the movie, and eighty students attended the first game of Humans V. Zombies. As usual, it was a team effort... Continue reading “Humans V. Zombies @ ZSR!” ›
Last Friday a number of us got together to poke around in Summon with an eye for how to teach it to our students. Here are some of the things we found: Giz and Bobbie have already taught it! They had some practical experiences to share. So far students and professors seem to like it.... Continue reading “Exploring Summon” ›
We are so happy to have our students back for the semester and are eager to show the world what we are working on. Pictured is student assistant Palmer Holton holding pulp fiction from the Clarence Herbert New Collection (MS577). This collection contains a wide variety of materials including photographs, maps, manuscripts, and printed materials.... Continue reading “What Are You Working On? With Palmer Holton” ›
Our third Capture the Flag@ZSR event on Friday, September 2nd, was our biggest event to date with around 150 students attending the event! The participants piled into ZSR at 9pm sharp and immediately went through 14 pizzas in about 5 minutes, courtesy of Campus Life and Meghan Haenn, and were ready to get started! Based... Continue reading “Capture the Flag@ZSR, Take Three!” ›
We’re about to embark on another round of Teaching Teaching, the series of workshops on teaching that Roz and I put together in 2008/2009 for librarians interested in spending time on developing their teaching. We’ve had some new folks join us and we’ve had some folks who have been here for some time request we... Continue reading “Teaching Teaching Take 3!” ›