News and more from ZSR Library
As you look for reading materials for your summer adventures, here are 10 fiction and 10 non-fiction books that have been showing up on summer reading lists! Fiction The Snow Queen: A heartbroken man turns to religion after seeing a vision in the sky above Central Park while his musician brother takes drugs he thinks... Continue reading “Summer Reading 2014” ›
On Wednesday June 4th, Tanya Zanish-Belcher, Monesha Staton, and I were fortunate to be three of 60 people from Wake Forest University who participated in a United Way Impact Tour entitled “Understanding Hunger at Home.” This event was designed to raise awareness about the United Way as one of two campus wide community campaigns that... Continue reading “Understanding Hunger At Home: A WFU United Way Impact Tour” ›
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” ›
ZSR has received a wide variety of films recently that can be seen on our New Films page. I would like to suggest a number of these fascinating titles for your possible viewing pleasure; ones with which you might not be familiar. Documentary Features A Great Day in Harlem (1994). DVD 12376. The story of... Continue reading “Summer viewing recommendations from ZSR!” ›
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” ›
These Chinese literary works are among the 27,000 titles that will be preserved in the ZSR off-site facility. Libraries have an obligation to preserve the written record for the benefit of humanity. At ZSR, that obligation is most keenly felt in cases where a ZSR book is one of the last remaining extant copies. The... Continue reading “Protecting Rare Volumes by Moving to Storage” ›
Continuing in its ZSRx series of open, online courses for the Wake Forest community, the ZSR Library is excited to announce its newest course, ZSRx Tweets, a three-week guided exploration of Twitter, the popular social networking service. In this free course, Wake Forest Fellow Laura Chin will help you to get started with Twitter and... Continue reading “ZSRx Tweets” ›
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” ›
ZSR Library just bought three additional Archives Unbound collections. Each product contains small, targeted collections of primary-source documents. Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s Indian Trade in the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands: Papers of Panton, Leslie and Company Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life Artemis Primary Sources is a new way to search... Continue reading “Database News, May 2014” ›