News and more from ZSR Library
This month’s Emerging Tech Talk was on Location Aware Devices and Augmented Reality. Since it still sounds a lot like science fiction, and is hard to explain without seeing it in action, we started by watching a few videos: First, a video about overlaying additional information based on symbols a device understands: Then, a video... Continue reading “Emerging Tech Talk: Location Aware Devices & Augmented Reality” ›
Revisiting the Legacy of Albert Schweitzer: Reverence for Life in a Global Context, a symposium, will be held on Tuesday, September 22nd, 4:30 – 6:30 at Wait Chapel. Continue reading “Albet Schweitzer Symposium exhibit” ›
Roz on her Junk Science BI Uses the Wellness blog at Time Magazine Found an article on body image Had students read and summarize She knew the cited study in it was Open Access, so as long as they got to it through Google Scholar, the students could read the full text She then gave... Continue reading “September 15: Active Learning in One-Shot Sessions” ›
As part of a collaborative effort with the Forsyth County Public Library, ZSR created an exhibit for The Big Read. The book title this year is Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Continue reading “Big Read Exhibit 2009-Their Eyes Were Watching God” ›
It has been just over 2 weeks since we pulled the trigger and switched our catalog view over. We have gotten lots of great feedback and ideas for improvement and I thought I would take a moment to gather this feedback together and talk about next steps. General Impressions Comments from our patrons have varied... Continue reading “New catalog reactions and status” ›
Heather Works on Trusses at the WFU Habitat House As part of the Wake Forest University/Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Habitat Build, ZSR Library sent a crew of 10 to work on the site on Wed. September 9. Volunteers from all 4 library teams were represented and worked together so well that the Habitat... Continue reading “ZSR Library at the WFU Habitat for Humanity House” ›
Giz on Facebook He’s working with four classes that are using Fan pages to share information/host class discussions/etc Good idea to use consistent naming principles to make it easier to locate the course pages Students have to become a fan to have the information show up in their feeds Professors have to have an understanding... Continue reading “September 8: Facebook, Twitter, and LibGuides as Course Pages” ›
The Z. Smith Reynolds Library will be holding a student focus group on our new catalog on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 from 1p.m. to 1:30p.m. We want to evaluate the usefulness of the new catalog and gather suggestions for improvement. If you have a few minutes, we would appreciate your help. Please visit the Circulation... Continue reading “Student Focus Group on Our New Catalog” ›
The NYT has a interesting update on the status of the GoogleBooks legal issues this morning. There are some curious tidbits in the article including a mention of a “book rights registry” that Google asserts will coordinate rights payments to publishers. Of note, the article also mentions the Europeana Digital Library, a multi-institutional repository of... Continue reading “GoogleBooks Legal discussions continue” ›
We’re in the midst of round two of teaching teaching! I have worked up the schedule, and posted it in the side bar. I have paper notes from the first session that I’ll convert to a blog post very soon. I also will rework the tags/categories to still have meaning for this second round. Here... Continue reading “Round Two!” ›