News and more from ZSR Library
Wake the Library is off and running! Susan, Travis and I served up (messy) sub sandwiches to (mostly) grateful students at midnight and watched two (very polite) students put up hammocks on the third floor who thanked us for letting them do it. Right after a beautiful Love Feast, it was a lovely way to... Continue reading “Wake the Library Fall 2010” ›
You may have noticed lines of T-shirts hanging from the atrium railings. These shirts are part of a campus Human Rights project and will stay up through Wake the Library. The Human Rights Clothesline Project, is sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and organized by WGS 377B Human Rights: Theory and Practice students.... Continue reading “Human Rights T-Shirt Project in ZSR” ›
Got fines and a desire to help the hungry in our community? The Z. Smith Reynolds Library will accept non-expired, unopened canned goods as payment for overdue fines. For each can of food donated, $1 will be waived from your library fines. (No maximum.) Only canned goods will be accepted. The program will run from... Continue reading “Food for Fines, Fall 2010” ›
Tuesday evening I went to the START Gallery in Reynolda Village. The gallery was hosting an opening reception for the “I See” exhibit, which runs through November 27th. If you’re not familiar with START, it provides an avenue for WFU students to display their art in a professional setting close to campus. The “I See”... Continue reading “Video Art in START Gallery” ›
Over the last few months the University has been testing WebEx, a real-time collaboration tool that includes video, audio, desktop, and application sharing. I have used WebEx a few times in my Information literacy course this semester already and found generally positive student reception to it. They indicated that while WebEx had a bit of... Continue reading “Bringing speakers to ZSR through WebEx” ›
This second A.R. Ammons exhibit only contains his poetry. The words speak volumes about his life and concerns. Ammons’ poetry is very accessible and so for this exhibit-which is in the room where 20 of his paintings now live-I decided to let Archie’s words do the talking. Continue reading “Ammons Poetry” ›
*Note: most of this post is duplicated at the ZSR Professional Development blog. From 10 am this morning until 3 pm this afternoon, Z. Smith Reynolds Library was inhabited by 50 excited archivists and librarians (from across the state and as far away as Texas) to learn about Archivists’ Toolkit. The workshop, sponsored by the... Continue reading “Hosting the NCLA Archivists’ Toolkit Workshop” ›
A few days ago Omeka, an open source digital content publishing system, introduced a cloud-based hosting solution for users. The solution features a tiered service level (from Free to $999 per year) and provides users with a point and click solution for launching digital collections. This model has been used by other organizations such as... Continue reading “Finding ways to combine cloud computing and open source software” ›
A discussion of environmental racism will be held on November 11th and moderated by Provost Jill Tiefenthaler. Two prominent speakers join the Wake Forest campus community to discuss environmental injustice and its effects on community well-being in the United States and abroad. Dr. Julianne Malveuax, president of Bennett College for Women, and Simran Sethi, associate... Continue reading “Environmental Racism and Justice Exhibit” ›
Each academic department and many interdisciplinary programs have an assigned library liaison. Your liaison strives to make your experience using library services as easy as possible. For faculty, this means Buying Materials. Each liaison manages the materials budget for their assigned departments. E-mail any specific book or video requests to your liaison, and they’ll see... Continue reading “Liaisons: Your Link to the Library” ›