During May 2014

Here @ ZSR

Senior Showcase 2014

L to R: Ryan Whittington, Christopher Earle, David Inczauskis, Rachel Cumbest On April 22, the ZSR Library hosted the fifth Annual Senior Showcase before a large crowd of students, faculty, staff and parents. The Showcase was proposed in late 2009 by a graduating Wake Forest senior who was impressed by his peers’ research, yet was... Continue reading “Senior Showcase 2014”

“Big Disruption” Event Fills Pugh

L to R: Michael Riley, Rogan Kersh, Andy Chan On March 20, the ZSR Library hosted a two-hour conversation entitled “The Big Disruption: The Coming Transformation of Higher Education.” Dean Lynn Sutton moderated the discussion featuring panelists Provost Rogan Kersh, WFU Vice President of Career Development Andy Chan and Michael Riley ’81, who is editor... Continue reading ““Big Disruption” Event Fills Pugh”

Database News, May 2014

ZSR Library just bought three additional Archives Unbound collections. Each product contains small, targeted collections of primary-source documents. Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s Indian Trade in the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands: Papers of Panton, Leslie and Company Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life Artemis Primary Sources is a new way to search... Continue reading “Database News, May 2014”

Lots of New Finding Aids Online!

Special Collections and Archives has been very actively processing and re-processing collections over the past months and we are pleased to share the finding aids with our public! As part of our collections overhaul and shifting project, manuscript collections 1-11 have been reviewed, processed, and have had finding aids published: Account Books, Fayetteville, Cumberland County,... Continue reading “Lots of New Finding Aids Online!”

Wake Forest’s Endangered Artifact

Special Collections and Archives is honored to be included in the North Carolina Preservation Consortium’s list of North Carolina’s Most Endangered Artifacts. You may have already ready about the “discovery” of our Philomathesian Banner in Wake Forest Magazine. You can read more about the history of the banner and the plans for conservation as well as... Continue reading “Wake Forest’s Endangered Artifact”