Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral is the first published volume of poetry by an African American author. This fact in itself would make the book significant, but Phillis Wheatley’s Poems has a complicated and fascinating history of its own. Readers of the 1773 first edition would have been familiar with biographical details of... Continue reading “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, by Phillis Wheatley (1773)” ›
A Chapter Ends, A Chapter Begins Posted on February 24, 2013 by lauren pressley Tomorrow I start my new job, at a new library, so though I still have a few posts in the queue related to the work I had been doing, I wanted to write a post about what it was to work... Continue reading “From Lauren Pressley” ›
During the summer of 2011, a group of us formed to create an e-textbook for information literacy and received a STEP Grant from a group headed by Rick Matthews in IS. Our group, guided by Lauren Pressley, consisted of Kaeley McMahan, Rebecca Petersen, Audra Eagle Yun, Gretchen Edwards, Kevin Gilbertson, and Craig Fansler. We put... Continue reading “E-textbook for Information Literacy is Published” ›
Senior Molly McCurdy has been working in Special Collections for her entire time at Wake Forest. She is so good at what she does for us, we save only the very best (most tedious and complicated) projects for her. Currently, Molly is finishing the CRMF (Church Record Microfilm) project that we launched about two years... Continue reading “What Are You Working On? With Molly McCurdy” ›
Based on recent suggestions from our reference librarians, we have pushed a few key improvements to the library catalog into production: Due date: Due date now displays on record pages for items that are checked out. Yes, that’s right, you won’t have to check classic view to see when something is due. Call number browsing:... Continue reading “Recent Improvements to the Library Catalog” ›
On Friday, February 8th, the Library hosted the fourth Humans v Zombies event, and the zombie horde is growing! We held our first event in the Fall of 2011, one year after we began hosting games of Capture the Flag as part of freshman orientation! As you can see from the chart below, Humans v... Continue reading “Humans v Zombies-The Zombie Horde is Growing!” ›
Special Collections and Archives is happy to announce the completion of the Graylyn Estate Collection finding aid. This collection contains information on the planning and construction of the estate as well as the many uses by both the Medical School and Wake Forest University. This is a highly used collection and we see wide reaching... Continue reading “Graylyn Estate Collection Finding Aid Complete” ›
We are happy to announce that the processing of the Dr. Thomas K. Hearn, Jr. collection and finding aid are now complete. An intern for Special Collections, Mary Ann Ramsey, began the processing of the materials a few years ago, and did a through job with a sizable part of the collection. I picked up... Continue reading “The Thomas K. Hearn, Jr. Collection Finding Aid, Part Deux” ›
Until yesterday, 2013 has not been a year of positive movement in the scholarly communication realm. In early January, many were shocked and saddened to learn of the death of Aaron Swartz, a leading advocate for open access. Although his methodology has been questioned by some, the principles that inspired his actions are sound. In... Continue reading “Looking back, looking forward” ›
ZSR’s Special Collections received an exciting addition to its Southern American literature collections in 2012 with the gift of Jan Hensley’s personal collection of materials by and about North Carolina authors. Mr. Hensley, who attended WFU in the 1960s, is a photographer, author, and collector who has been active in the North Carolina literary world... Continue reading “New Acquisitions: Jan Hensley’s NC Authors Collection” ›