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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” ›
LeVar Burton, actor and activist, will give a presentation at Wait Chapel on Wake Forest University January 21, 2008. Burton is well known for his role as Kunta Kinte in the 1977 series Roots. He also acted a prominent role in Star Trek-The Next Generation and the PBS series, Reading Rainbow. Burton will give a... Continue reading “LeVar Burton exhibit” ›
New 46″ Sharp LCD Monitor and TV in ITC Screening Room With classroom, meeting room and group study space at a premium in the library, we have been slowly trying to upfit the ITC screening room so it can offer flexibility for a variety of uses. Last year we replaced the furniture but weren’t funded... Continue reading “ITC Updates Equipment and Adds A Public TV” ›
Social Stratification in the Deep South: 2007 Participants On the Road in the Deep South ZSR Director Lynn Sutton and Head of Information Technology Susan Smith accompanied Sociology professors Earl Smith and Angela Hattery on their two-week summer course called “Social Stratification in the Deep South.” The class traveled throughout Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi while... Continue reading “Embedded Librarians” ›
On Thursday, the reference department initiated service via txt messaging. By doing so, we’ve joined a small handful of academic libraries making this format available to patrons. In order to txt the reference desk, patrons should dial 265010, enter our IM screen name “askzaklive” followed by their question and press enter. The question will arrive... Continue reading “cn i hlp u? The reference desk initiates text messaging service.” ›