News and more from ZSR Library
After some arduous testing, scripting and rescripting, I am happy to announce that ZSR is officially offering Direct Request for our patrons. OCLC ILL Direct Request gives our patrons the ability to send ILL requests directly to potential lending libraries without ILL staff’s intervention. This is a big leap forward for the ZSR ILL department,... Continue reading “ILL Direct Request – Empowering the Patrons” ›
L to R: Anna Nicodemus, Mallory Durr, Courtney Vris On Tuesday, April 20, the Z. Smith Reynolds Library hosted the inaugural Senior Showcase, an event honoring exemplary research completed by Wake Forest College undergraduates. Students shared their thesis research in a three-part lecture in the Allen Mandelbaum Reading Room. The 2010 honorees were: Anna Nicodemus... Continue reading “Senior Showcase Highlights Undergraduate Research” ›
ZSR staff member Scott Adair examines the shelves during a visit to the Library Service Center at Duke University. The Wake Forest facility will use a similar high-bay shelving system. The Z. Smith Reynolds Library building exceeded its storage capacity over a decade ago. Despite the rise of electronic media, the library still buys thousands... Continue reading “Storage Facility to Preserve Materials, Make Them More Accessible” ›
The Z. Smith Reynolds Library has installed two additional book return sites to make returning materials to ZSR even easier. The Coy C. Carpenter Library on the Bowman Gray Campus kindly donated two surplus book returns for ZSR use, and the Facilities Department spruced them up before installing them. One return site stands just to... Continue reading “Returning a Book Now More Convenient Than Ever” ›
Following a successful pilot and with the approval of the Committee on Information Technology, Wake Forest University will transition from Blackboard to Sakai, a free and open-source online collaboration and learning management system. Sakai will offer some new features including wikis, blogs and chat. Sakai orientation sessions for faculty will be offered throughout the summer.... Continue reading “Teaching With Technology” ›
IOPscience The ZSR Library recently negotiated a contract with Institute of Physics Publishing for access to the IOPscience collection of online journals. This agreement gives Wake Forest personnel increased access to physics journals while holding costs steady. Locate individual journal titles using the library catalog or the Find a Journal tool. Electronic reference books Due... Continue reading “Database News” ›
Herodotus- Father of History and Father of Lies is the title of this First Year Seminar. Herodotus apparently had an inclination to record history and make things up. This year is probably the tenth year I’ve worked with Dr. Jeff Lerner and his history classes doing exhibits. The class came to Preservation about a month... Continue reading “Herodotus FYS Exhibits” ›
On Tuesday, April 20, 2010, the Z. Smith Reynolds Library hosted the inaugural Senior Showcase, an event honoring exemplary research completed by Wake Forest University undergraduates in their final year. Honorees shared their research from their senior theses before the Wake Forest community in a three-part lecture in the Library’s Allen Mandelbaum Reading Room. The... Continue reading “Senior Showcase” ›
As many of you know, I am really interested inAugmented Reality. There’s some pretty amazing potential there for embedding additional metadata into the real world as well as providing instruction at point-of-use, point-of-need locations. However, the technology is still pretty far off. We’d need a user base that had devices that work with augmented reality... Continue reading “Quick Response Codes… first in Japan… now in ZSR Library!” ›
I just wanted to post a reminder that new posts appear regularly throughout the year on the ZSR Library’s Technology How To Blog. Most recently we have posted new entries on Using the Help Resources Provided by EndNote and edited entries on the grant funded, Digital Media Station in the Multimedia Lab. We even have... Continue reading “The ZSR Library’s Technology How To Blog!” ›