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Welcome back to another installment of 5 Questions! If you would like to choose 5 Questions yourself, feel free to choose 5 from this form. Sam Sfirri, Collections Archivist Tell us about what you do at ZSR Library? I work as part of the Special Collections & Archives (SCA) team to make our archival collections... Continue reading “5 Questions with Sam Sfirri” ›
Join us for a 30-minute guided tour of ZSR Library, where you’ll discover the incredible resources, services, and study spaces designed to support student success. Whether you’re new to ZSR or curious about what the library has to offer, this tour is the perfect introduction. Tours will depart from the main entrance of ZSR Library... Continue reading “Family Weekend Tours 2025” ›
After five long years – one pandemic, a brief absence, and 18 finding aids – I have completed processing the Wake Forest University Department of Athletics archival collections! Refresher: In 2020, the department of athletics announced the vacating of several offices from a building on Deacon Boulevard that has since been demolished. Special Collections and... Continue reading “Archiving Athletics: My Journey to the Finish Line” ›
Accessing the full text of articles has gotten easier! ZSR recently added a service called LibKey that operates behind the scenes to provide reliable links to scholarly journal articles with fewer clicks.LibKey works with data from ZSR’s thousands of journal subscriptions as well as the Unpaywall open access database to quickly and seamlessly link users... Continue reading “Introducing LibKey: Finding Full Text Just Got Easier” ›
This blog post was written by Special Collections & Archives volunteer Shannon Bothwell. One of the best features about archival materials is their ability to surprise. Stereotypically, archives consist of the papers of prominent men. But archived items from the 20th and 21st centuries include much more than paper; audio recordings, emails and digital documents,... Continue reading “Trailblazing Wake Forest Women Tell Their Stories Through Archives” ›
The ZSR Ambassadors are the library’s student advocacy group, supporting ZSR through programmatic assistance and candid feedback. Since the inception of this program in 2012, our Ambassadors have offered a student voice for outreach, service, and facility considerations. In recent years, our library Ambassadors have worked to develop and implement library programs, student feedback channels,... Continue reading “What should new students know about ZSR? We asked the ZSR Ambassadors!” ›
Save the dates for the number of Fall events at ZSR. For more upcoming library events, check out our calendar or follow us on our social media channels! Exhibit Fields of Fortune: North Carolina’s Legacy in Leaf and Labor (Feb.- Dec. 2025) September Humans Vs Zombies (Friday, September 12, 7:00-9:00 p.m.) We Lost the House,... Continue reading “Save the Dates! Fall Events in ZSR” ›
ZSR is proud to share that Jemma Johnson, Research Services Specialist, has been selected as a recipient of the McLendon Scholarship Award from the North Carolina Library Association (NCLA) Jemma is currently enrolled in the Master of Library Science Program at North Carolina Central University. The McLendon Scholarship Award provides financial support to library staff... Continue reading “Jemma Johnson Receives NCLA McLendon Scholarship Award” ›
