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For Black History Month, one part of the exhibit holds books from the library collection on the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement. For Black History Month, the exhibit focuses on literature about the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement and the 1960 Sit-ins in Winston-Salem. During these Sit-ins, 12 students from Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State were arrested.... Continue reading “Black History Month exhibit” ›
Cristina Yu put together an exhibit for the Year of the Rat which begins on Feb 7, 2008 Cristina Yu and I put together an exhibit for the Year of the Rat which begins on Feb 7, 2008 Continue reading “Chinese New Year exhibit” ›
It’s not too late to catch the last few programs in ZSR’s Library Lecture Series. “Pietro Bembo’s History of Venice (1551)” Wednesday, March 5, 3:00 p.m., Library Room 204 Robert Ulery, Professor of Latin, Classical languages Based on his recent book, Professor Robert Ulery will speak on “Pietro Bembo’s History of Venice (1551).” Sociology of... Continue reading “Library Lecture Series” ›
Starting Sunday February 17, the Z. Smith Reynolds Library will be open overnight 5 nights a week. The library will open each Sunday at 10 a.m. and will not close until 7 p.m. the following Friday. Saturday hours, currently 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., will remain the same. The new schedule will remain in effect... Continue reading “Open all night 5 nights a week!” ›
Want to Help Your WFU Libraries at the Same Time? Lenovo offers discounts to the Wake Forest community (and their friends and family) on Lenovo’s entire product line including ThinkPad laptops. To take advantage of these special prices visit: WFU Lenovo Friends & Family. 5% of each sale goes directly to support your campus libraries:... Continue reading “Need a New Computer or Accessories?” ›
The Library hosted the semi-annual Get Game@ZSR Friday, January 25th from 7-11pm. This installment of Get Game was both an open game night and a Halo 3 tournament. Lynn Sutton, Susan Smith, Erik Mitchell, Tim Mitchell, Kevin Gilbertson, and Caroline Numbers (along with two very dedicated RTAs and John Vientos from Information Systems) were all... Continue reading “Get Game@ZSR” ›
On Tuesday, Dan Johnson, graduate student and new father, took time from his busy schedule to teach a Zotero workshop for the ZSR staff. Dan is such a fan of this product that he volunteered for this assignment! Having ditched EndNote, Dan uses Zotero exclusively to manage his thesis citations. A Firefox extension, Zotero is... Continue reading “An Introduction to Zotero” ›
Transforming the Scholarly Publishing Landscape In late 2007, President Bush signed into law an omnibus appropriations bill, whereby the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will require all investigators who receive NIH funding to make digital copies of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts publicly available in the National Library of Medicine’s digital repository, PubMed Central. This law... Continue reading “Open Access” ›
For the first time in ITC history, we have instituted a fine structure to encourage our student patrons to return cameras, camcorders and projectors on time. We have offered loans on digital equipment and accessories for many years, but are limited by budget on the number of items we can buy. We depend on our... Continue reading “ITC Equipment: Policy Change” ›
Faculty members have made it clear that having the full text of primary source material available digitally is one of the most valuable services the library can provide. Thus, ZSR has made it a high priority to acquire these materials using funds from the Presidential Trust and in collaboration with other libraries. New resources include:... Continue reading “New Databases Offer More Full Text” ›