News and more from ZSR Library
On April 19, ZSR will host the seventh annual Senior Showcase to celebrate outstanding research and artistic theses or projects completed by Wake Forest undergraduates. Since 2010, the Showcase has featured the research of over 20 former students, representing numerous academic fields, from philosophy to theatre to anthropology to chemistry. As an additional recognition of... Continue reading “Senior Showcase to Return in April” ›
ZSR and the Reynolda House Museum of American Art will offer for the first time a six-part lecture course that will examine the Reynolda estate through the lens of 20th-century American history. The course covers topics such as tobacco, the American Country Place Era, women’s history and the story of the new South. Participants will... Continue reading “Reynolda: An American Story – Library Lecture Series Special Opportunity” ›
ZSR proudly announces the Spring 2016 Lecture Series. Lectures this semester include: The annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr./Building the Dream Lecture by Nehemiah Rolle; “The History of WFDD” by Molly Davis and Sara Chisesi; “The Pope, Peru and Paris” by Associate Professor of the Practice Justin Catanoso; “Feeling My Neighbor’s Faith” by Associate Professor... Continue reading “Spring 2016 Library Lecture Series” ›
Library Partners Press announces the publication of new books this past semester, including: The Appalachian Trail, a re-boot of Professor of Biology Robert Browne’s long-out-of-print 1980 monograph; Psychological Tight Spaces, chronicling Dr. Shawn Ricks’ attempts to negotiate power, navigate oppression and resist domination in academia; and Nomad in the Land Called God, Chris Pesek’s collection... Continue reading “Library Partners Press Update” ›
ZSR added several new database subscriptions during the fall semester: TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource) provides genetic and molecular biology data for the model higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. JoVE Essentials of Neuroscience and JoVE Essentials of Behavioral Science teach laboratory fundamentals through easy-to-understand video demonstrations. WFU also now has access to the full archive of... Continue reading “Database News” ›
On Saturday, November 28th, the ZSR Library hosted our third annual Thanksgiving weekend meal in the ZSR atrium! We began this program three years ago with a Saturday pizza dinner, followed by a movie. Based on feedback from students that first year, we changed the event to a lunch last year, and we repeated that... Continue reading “Thanksgiving Weekend Lunch @ ZSR 2015” ›
Are you studying for final exams on Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Environmental Science, etc.? Are you looking for more authoritative background information than Wikipedia to help you study? AccessScience is a high quality science information resource edited by over 9,000 scientists including Nobel Prize Laureates. AccessScience database contains “more than 8,500 articles and Research Reviews... Continue reading “AccessScience & AccessMedicine” ›
With the number of streaming media resources available at ZSR growing dramatically in recent years, some of our users may not be familiar with all the amazing new streaming options! For example, we now subscribe to Kanopy Video, a distributor of educational videos for online viewing, and content available across multiple subject areas, including 369 videos... Continue reading “Streaming Video @ ZSR” ›
ZSR Library is constantly assessing how students use the library. During focus groups held last spring, students indicated that there is a distinct need to be able to hunker down in the library and get work done! To that end, we decided to take the doors off of some of our individual study carrels on... Continue reading “Individual Study Carrels Open for Use!” ›
Do you have a looming research paper that requires the use of primary sources? Are you interested in an approach that would reflect women’s personal thoughts on larger events and issues, or simply their daily lives, families, and circles of friends? In the past, it could be difficult to track down women’s personal writings, such... Continue reading “North American Women’s Letters and Diaries” ›