Join us Tuesday, March 22 at 4:00 pm in the library atrium when ZSR officially receives the Excellence in Academic Libraries award from the Association of College and Research Libraries. The ACRL President will present the award to President Nathan Hatch, who will accept it on behalf of the University. A gala reception will follow... Continue reading “Come help ZSR celebrate its ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries award!” ›
The Web Committee would like to share some highlights from its Valentine’s Day feedback table. That’s right – we gave away heart-shaped sweets on Valentine’s Day in exchange for website feedback. (And guess what – they had only lovely things to say. What’s that? Something wrong with our research methodology?) Adjacent to Starbucks in the... Continue reading “Web Committee February Feedback Results” ›
Yesterday morning, the last of the individual books from Data Chambers were delivered, barcoded, accessioned and shelved onto the shelves at the off site storage facility. While we are not nearly “done” with what has to be shelved in the new facility, completing this step was about as important to the start up of this... Continue reading “One Giant Leap for Off Site Storage” ›
I had the privilege of joining the Wake Forest delegation to Managua Nicaragua February 23-26, 2011 to dedicate Casa Dingledine in the program known as Nicaragua Nexus. This facility is different than Wake Forest’s other international houses in that it is not residential (yet) and is intended for short stays of 1-3 weeks, rather than... Continue reading “Nicaragua Nexus” ›
The 83rd Academy Awards are coming up on Sunday, February 27! Although ZSR does not have every film nominated for this year’s ceremony (some have yet to be released to video), we do have several in our collection. Here are the films we have available currently; the nominations they received are in parentheses: Alice in... Continue reading “ZSR and the Oscars!” ›
On November 29, 2010, the ZSR Library received the keys to the long-awaited off-site storage building, which is located on 30th Street just beyond the baseball stadium. After a week of staff training, work began on the monumental task of accessioning almost 200,000 volumes by June 2011. First, staff will transfer items that were formerly... Continue reading “Off-Site Storage Building Opens” ›
From the 2010 Senior Showcase: (L to R) Professor Paul Escott, Honoree Anna Nicodemus, Honoree Malloy Durr, Professor Helga Welsh, Professor Kendall Tarte, Honoree Courtney Vris ZSR will sponsor the second annual “Senior Showcase” to recognize outstanding senior thesis research and senior projects completed by Wake Forest undergraduates. Last year’s pilot showcase honored three seniors.... Continue reading “Nominate Outstanding Theses for the Senior Showcase” ›
Mustafa Abdullah, 2010 WFU graduate and recipient of the 2010 MLK Building the Dream Award, spoke in January on his work as a community organizer promoting Dr. King’s dream of social justice. Values, Education and Governance in Nigeria: How Would the Country Get the Right Balance? Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 3 p.m. Room 204, ZSR... Continue reading “Spring 2011 Library Lecture Series” ›
The library will host workshops this spring on: Audience response systems (“Clickers“) Prezi, an online presentation application Zotero, a basic, open-source citation manager Using Google Docs and Google Sites for Collaboration View these and other events! Additionally, find supporting documentation for Zotero, EndNote, Clickers and SMARTTM Boards, as well as many other applications, on the... Continue reading “Upcoming Technology Workshops” ›
Patrologia Latina This large multivolume set has been replaced by a searchable, online database. This full-text, indexed electronic version includes many major Christian Latin texts written from A.D. 200 to 1216. Mergent WebReports The ZSR Library also recently purchased the online version of the Mergent Corporate Manuals. Company information can be retrieved for a single... Continue reading “Database News” ›