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On Friday, October 29th, from 7-9 pm, the ZSR Library hosted our second game night of the Fall 2022 semester! We had 71 people in attendance, and the event was co-sponsored with WFU E-sports, the Board Game Club, Rook & Bishop, the Dungeons & Dragons Club, and the Chinese Students & Scholars Association. The atrium... Continue reading “Halloween Game Night @ ZSR – 2022 Edition” ›
On October 25th, the ZSR Ambassadors participated in a longstanding Wake Forest tradition, Project Pumpkin. During this event, children from the Winston-Salem community are invited to go trick-or-treating at dozens of booths set up by student organizations and campus departments. In addition to collecting candy and treats, there are also activities and games at each... Continue reading “Project Pumpkin with ZSR Ambassadors & the Department of Education” ›
On Thursday, Oct 13th, the ZSR Library teamed up with the Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Biomedical Graduate Programs to offer our 6th annual research retreat! Started in the Fall of 2017 as “Graduate Student Thesis Boot Camp” and rebranded as the “Graduate Student Research Retreat” for the Spring of... Continue reading “Graduate Student Research Retreat – Fall 2022” ›
On Friday, September 16th, the Library hosted tours for alumni that focused on all the changes to ZSR in the last 50 years! Roz, Meghan, and Hu led 11 tours to 46 WFU Alumni from 2-4pm. The changes we described ranged from the theater moving to scales in the 1970’s to the addition of the... Continue reading ““Not the Library You Remember” ZSR Tours for Homecoming 2022!” ›
On Friday, September 9th, from 7-9 PM, the ZSR Library hosted the Wake Forest eSports Club, the Board Game Club, the Rook and Bishop Chess Club, and the Dungeons & Dragons Club, which resulted in our largest game night ever, with over 131 gamers attending the event! We had pizza, gelato, and ZSR branded “Merch”... Continue reading “Go Big! The ZSR Library Hosts Our Largest Game Night to Date!” ›
ZSR Book Club Kits Want to start a book club? We’ve made it easier for you with ZSR Book Club Kits! Each kit comes in a canvas tote bag and includes 10-12 paperback copies of popular fiction and nonfiction titles and access to an online discussion guide and additional resources, such as author interviews and... Continue reading “Book Club in a Bag! Check out Our New Book Club Kits” ›
Last year, ZSR hosted a series of “Study Sundays” in ZSR during the first month of classes! We found that our numbers dropped precipitously after the first week, so this year we focused on one “Study Sunday” event on the first Sunday afternoon of the semester. Last year we had small giveaway items like ZSR... Continue reading “Study Sunday @ ZSR” ›
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, and the group is frequently consulted by library administration for their perspective and counsel. In recent years,... Continue reading “We Asked Our Student Ambassadors, “What Should New Students Know About ZSR?”” ›
On Wednesday, August 23rd, Wake Forest’s Office of Residence Life and Housing hosted the 11th annual “Faculty House Calls.” This event pairs up WFU Faculty, RL&H Staff, and RAs in teams that go door to door in the first-year residence halls giving out free “merch” (this year, we handed out color-changing cups with the residence... Continue reading “Faculty House Calls 2022 (ZSR Edition!)” ›
On Wednesday, August 17th, the ZSR Library hosted fast, fun tours of the ZSR Library for new students and their families as part of the move-in day activities! Tours started in the 24-hour room, where new students and families could grab a cup of gelato and then head out on a whirlwind tour of the... Continue reading “Fast, Fun, Tours of the ZSR Library – Move-in Day 2022” ›