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Special Collections & Archives is honored to host a selection of photography from University Photographer Ken Bennett. The exhibit will be up in the Special Collections & Archives Research Room (ZSR 625) through December 31st. Artist’s Statement: The photographs in this exhibit all have a common theme: they include the Z. Smith Reynolds library in... Continue reading “Worth a Thousand Words: Ken Bennett’s Photographs of ZSR” ›
Mail art? It sounds made up, but it is a real, though niche art movement. Mail art grew out of the Fluxus movement during the 1950’s and has grown ever since. Mail art can be envelopes, postcards, found objects, rubber stamped and collaged images or virtually anything that can be mailed. The mail art in... Continue reading “Mail Art Exhibit” ›
A new group of paintings by Raed Al-Rawi have been installed by John Chapman of the Asolare Art Foundation. Al-Rawi is an Iraqi native who has lived in the US for 28 years. His evocative and colorful figurative work is worth experiencing. Take a look and enjoy a summer of art in ZSR. Continue reading “Asolare Art Exhibit: Paintings by Raed Al-Rawi” ›
Applications are now being accepted for 2014-15 Special Collections and Archives research grants. The Provost’s Grant for Library Research and the ZSR Travel Grants provide financial support for visiting researchers who wish to use Wake Forest’s manuscripts, rare books, or archival collections. Since its inception in 2009, the ZSR Special Collections and Archives grants program... Continue reading “Grant Funding Supports Research at ZSR Special Collections and Archives” ›
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” ›
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” ›
Preservation Week is celebrated by libraries all over the country. Libraries present events, activities, and resources that highlight what we can do, individually and together, to preserve our personal and shared collections. Preservation Week was created in 2010 because some 630 million items in collecting institutions require immediate attention and care. Many libraries have no... Continue reading “Preservation Week 2014” ›
This semester, I’ve been working with Dr. Sharon Raynor whose Writing 111 students have been using war letters from Special Collections for the past year. There couldn’t be a better advocate for including Special Collections materials in the classroom than Sharon Raynor. After hearing Tanya speak about our collections during New Faculty Orientation, Dr. Raynor... Continue reading “Writing 111 Exhibits in ZSR” ›
The Z. Smith Reynolds Library is pleased to announce selections for the 5th annual Senior Showcase program recognizing exemplary senior research theses and projects completed by Wake Forest undergraduates in their final year. Four students have been selected to present their research on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, at 3pm in the ZSR Library Auditorium, Room... Continue reading “5th Annual Senior Showcase” ›
If you are working on a research paper or project this semester and would like a bit of help from one of the research experts at the ZSR Library, here’s your chance. We are holding three drop-in research help sessions during the end of the semester paper-writing season in ZSR Library classroom 476: Sunday, April... Continue reading “Sources, Citations and Cookies!” ›