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Special Collections & Archives is honored to host a selection of photography from University Photographer Ken Bennett. The exhibit will be up in the Special Collections & Archives Research Room (ZSR 625) through December 31st. Artist’s Statement: The photographs in this exhibit all have a common theme: they include the Z. Smith Reynolds library in... Continue reading “Worth a Thousand Words: Ken Bennett’s Photographs of ZSR” ›
Due to scheduled hardware upgrades, Internet connections will be down for most or all of the Reynolda campus on: Saturday, July 26, from 4:30pm to 2:00am Saturday, August 2, from 7:00am to 5:00pm During these times, users in ZSR will likely have no access to the ZSR home page, library catalog, databases, or e-books and... Continue reading “Network Downtime, 7/26 and 8/2” ›
Last summer, the Library began hosting “Humans V. Zombies” and “Capture the Flag” events for the LENS summer program, the new students who attend Summer II, and both the SPARC and International students who come to campus early! This year, we continued those programs, with a June “Capture the Flag” event for the 51 LENS... Continue reading “Summer 2014 Recap of “Humans V. Zombies” and “Capture the Flag” events at ZSR!” ›
This handout was created by Craig to promote the DVD Collection. If you would like copies, contact Mary Reeves. The historic image is from the early film, A Trip to the Moon, by George Melies. Also, at the end of each semester I remove books and films from the Course Reserves shelves and return them... Continue reading “What’s New with the ZSR Film Collection” ›
Mail art? It sounds made up, but it is a real, though niche art movement. Mail art grew out of the Fluxus movement during the 1950’s and has grown ever since. Mail art can be envelopes, postcards, found objects, rubber stamped and collaged images or virtually anything that can be mailed. The mail art in... Continue reading “Mail Art Exhibit” ›
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” ›