News and more from ZSR Library
Back in the Spring of 2011, the Z. Smith Reynolds Library arranged a panel discussion on social media at WFU. The panelists were Lauren Pressley, Meghan Haenn, Will Clarke and myself. The event was so well-attended and led to so much discussion afterwards, that I decided it might be time to form a WFU Social... Continue reading “WFU Social Media Users Group” ›
On Thursday, July 28th, Bobbie Collins and I attended the final presentations of the LENS students. Each group worked on a different project over the course of the three weeks of the program. These projects ranged from building and installing rain barrels at Courtney Elementary to working in the WFU Campus Garden, now known as... Continue reading “LENS 2011 Wrap Up” ›
Today Molly, Giz, Sarah, Joy, Lauren C., and I got together over lunch to discuss the recent Aaron Swartz JSTOR controversy. Not much is known yet about the case, but we got together to share what we knew, talk about potential implications for our field, and related issues. We kicked off with a bio of... Continue reading “The Aaron Swartz JSTOR Controversy” ›
This summer Giz Womack and Bobbie Collins have coordinated several information literacy (IL) classes for faculty. Last week we organized IL activities for high school students participating in the LENS program, and this week we provided library instruction for Dr. Collin Craig’s ENG 107 class (Foundations in Academic Research and Writing). Before our initial class... Continue reading “Building IL skills with ENG 107 students (co-authored by Giz Womack and Bobbie Collins)” ›
Last Thursday ZSR hosted a Google+ “Lunch and Learn” that was attended by a dozen members of the WFU community. This Thursday, three people attended the Spotify “Lunch and Learn” to hear about this new “invitation only” application for streaming and sharing music. Both of these came out of an interest by the staff to... Continue reading “Recent Technology “Lunch and Learns” – Let’s Keep It Going!” ›
You may recall that during April, the Offsite Storage facility, (more precisely its ExTend Shelving solution) was filmed to be featured for a program called “Inside Business” starring Fred Thompson. Scott, Tony, Jim Alty, me and several people from SpaceSavers (the company that provides the shelving) spent the day with a filming crew both at... Continue reading “ZSR Offsite makes the big time” ›
In May, Giz started planning with Luke Johnston and Leigh Stanfield for the second summer LENS program (A program that teaches rising high school juniors and senior about both the issue of sustainability and about writing at the college level.) In his role as Outreach Librarian, Giz really found some new ways to promote the... Continue reading “LENS@WFU: Round 2 (co-authored by Giz Womack and Bobbie Collins)” ›
We will be upgrading our Voyager (‘Classic View’) system from 7.1 to 7.2.5 (the latest version). The upgrade will start Wednesday, July 13 at 5AM and is estimated to end on Thursday, July 14 at 4PM. While Classic View (and associated account information) will be unavailable during the upgrade, regular catalog searching will be available... Continue reading “Voyager Upgrade Schedule” ›
The University is working on determining learning outcomes for academic departments, and since we offer classes, we also need to come up with relevant ones. This is going to be an ongoing project. This year we just reported on the goals for LIB100: Learn how to determine the nature and extent of information needed for... Continue reading “Learning Outcomes for LIB100/200” ›
This spring, I put up an exhibit suggested by Dr. Robert Ulery of the Classics Department. A newly published book, African American Writers and the Classical Tradition by William W. Cook and James Tatum is the focus of this exhibit. The book makes a connection between African American writers and the classical writers of Greece... Continue reading “African American Writers and the Classical Tradition” ›