News and more from ZSR Library
Earlier this month, ZSR’s Twitter account was born! Chris Burris has been updating regularly about events, resources, and announcements. We already have fourteen followers after just twelve days of tweeting! I took a look at a post from 2009 that attempted to list all the libraries on Twitter, and found a few university libraries that... Continue reading “The Web Committee checks out Twitter” ›
On Tuesday Aug 17, the Bridge opens our new Digital Media Lab. The lab, funded and managed by the ZSR library, Office of Entrepreneurship, Information Systems and the Chambers family fund, provides an environment where students, faculty and staff can explore new digital media and technologies. The lab contains 7 Mac Mini desktop machines, five... Continue reading “Launch of new Digital Media Lab” ›
We are spreading the word about the four iPads (which will grow to well over a dozen in October!) the Flip cameras, the Kindle, Nook and Sony reader, the pocket projector and more that are all available for checkout at the Bridge in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library! Events like the RA Resource Fair, Campus... Continue reading “Spreading the Word about New Equipment for Checkout at ZSR!” ›
Asolare Art Foundation installed an exhibit of children’s art in August, 2010. Continue reading “Asolare Art- Children’s Art exhibit” ›
This past week, Mary Beth Lock, Mary Reeves, Steve Jarrett and myself made the quick jaunt down I40 to visit the newly completed auditorium/viewing room at Elon University’s College of Communication. Colleagues at Elon were kind enough to let us take a look at their facility so that we could get a mental image of... Continue reading “ZSR Visits Elon U. and its new Auditorium” ›
Hello everyone! My name is Gretchen Edwards, and I’m the new Cisco Fellow. You can find me in office 302B; I’m thrilled to be a part of the ZSR team. Over the course of the year I’ll be exploring how Cisco’s technologies can foster innovative learning and increase collaboration among our campus community. So far... Continue reading “Hi from Gretchen” ›
This summer, Wake Forest began a six month pilot for Cisco’s WebEx. WebEx is a video-based collaboration software package. It allows users to chat with text and video, host real-time meetings that can include sharing your desktop so others can see what you’re doing, writing on a whiteboard, and sharing files, and integrates with Outlook... Continue reading “Fun With WebEx” ›
We upgraded to ILLiad 8 several months ago. ILLiad 8 boasts potential and possibilities for add-ons that can make ILL operations easier, such as searching the online catalog directly from the ILLiad client. When I realized that the default Voyager add-on that ILLiad created does not search the Vufind catalog and it does key word... Continue reading “VuFind Addon for ILLiad” ›
On Thursday, July 29, we were lucky to have two special visitors from the University of Portsmouth in the UK: art professors Claire Sambrook and Maureen O’Neill, creators of the Visual Libraries project. Claire and Maureen obtained a grant to visit us here in Winston-Salem to check on the status of the Leave Your Mark... Continue reading “Community art from the UK to Forsyth County” ›
(From Bobbie) Giz and I met with 26 LENS (Learn, Experience, Navigate, Solve) students on Tuesday, July 13 to introduce them to library resources and on Wednesday, July 14 to assist them with narrowing their topic to a research question and using PowerPoint. To kick off Tuesday afternoon’s activities, students participated in a scavenger hunt.... Continue reading “LENS@WFU” ›