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Unlock New Resources for Financial Research Elevate your research potential with new datasets available via WRDS. We are thrilled to announce a major upgrade for our research community: the CRSP/Compustat Merged Database is now available! This game-changing addition bridges the gap between CRSP market data and Compustat fundamentals, offering a streamlined, powerful tool for the... Continue reading “New at ZSR – CRSP/Compustat Merged Database” ›
Re-Introducing LIB100 The Z Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University has been offering iterations of the credit-bearing library research introductory class LIB 100 for over two decades. For the 2025-26 academic year, we filled 22 sections of LIB100 courses with total enrollment around 317 students. This number does not include our other LIB courses... Continue reading “Not the LIB100 You Remember: How AI Has (and Hasn’t) Changed LIB100 ” ›
If you’ve ever wanted to sharpen your finance skills or add a recognized business credential to your resume, we have some exciting news: WFU students, staff, and faculty now have remote access to Bloomberg certifications through Bloomberg for Education — and you can complete them from anywhere, at no cost to you. What Certifications Are... Continue reading “New at ZSR – Access Bloomberg Certificates From Anywhere” ›
The ZSR Employee Association (EA) was developed to promote the welfare of ZSR employees and the library as well as to provide organization for employee activities – over 50 years ago! For fun you can check out the Constitution and Bylaws from 1972. In the last two years, the EA Fund has supported nine employees... Continue reading “Employee Association Benevolence Shared with the Chaplain’s Office” ›
Over the past several months, the ZSR AI Engagement Task Force has been working through a question that almost every academic library is sitting with right now: how do we want to engage with artificial intelligence in a way that is honest about what these tools are, faithful to our values, and useful to the... Continue reading “Starting with Values: Introducing Our AI Engagement Framework” ›
The Wake Forest University Commemoration of the Enslaved was held last week outside of Wait Chapel. The program included prayers, music, a reading of the names of those who were enslaved, and a solemn acknowledgment of those whose names remain unknown. Now in its eighth year, this meaningful event brought together more than 200 students,... Continue reading “Commemoration of the Enslaved, 2026” ›
ZSR’s virtual summer book club is back in 2026. Campus community members are invited to join alumni, parents, and other library friends in reading two books touching on the theme of public health: Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green and Year of Wonders: A Novel by Geraldine... Continue reading “2026 ZSR Virtual Summer Book Club” ›
National Library Week is here! Z. Smith Reynolds Library is joining libraries across the country in celebrating the ways libraries transform lives, strengthen communities, and support learning. This year’s National Library Week theme is “Find Your Joy.” It invites all to reflect on what sparks joy in the library, whether that is discovering a new... Continue reading “National Library Week 2026” ›
The ZSR Library has entered a year-long trial of Consensus through April of 2027. Consensus is an AI-powered search engine that instantly finds, analyzes, and summarizes peer-reviewed research. Consensus currently searches 250+ million peer-reviewed academic papers, pre-prints, and conference proceedings. Its corpus includes articles indexed in Semantic Scholar, Open Alex, ArXiv, PubMed, CrossRef, and ORCID... Continue reading “Consensus Trial through ZSR” ›
On Thursday, March 19, 2026, faculty, staff, and guests gathered in ZSR Library to celebrate faculty authors and artists from across the Reynolda campus who published books or produced creative works in 2025. This was the first time that ZSR had hosted an event like this since 2019, and we were excited to bring it... Continue reading “Recap: 2026 Faculty Authors & Artists Celebration” ›