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What is a poster session? Surely, many have wondered what a poster session actually is. This week, ZSR has begun placing poster sessions from our staff in the exhibit cases on Reynolds 4. This will give the curious a chance to see many posters developed and presented by ZSR at a variety of conferences across... Continue reading “Poster Sessions Highlighted” ›
ZSR wikis have a new feature! We have added support for embedding mathematical formulas (using TeX syntax) into our wikis. If you currently have a ZSR wiki or if you plan on requesting one and want to use this feature, please let us know. For more information on using the <math> tags and TeX syntax,... Continue reading “ZSR adds support for embedding mathematical formulas in a wiki” ›
Painting by Shanta Hauser Wire sculpture by Daniel Whitmer Continue reading “Asolare Exhibits- second installment” ›
Lauren Pressley and I led six workshops over three consecutive days this week on web 2.0 topics. These sessions came out of discussions with various members of the campus community who expressed an interest in learning more about everything from social networking applications to creating a podcast. The six workshops were: An Introduction to Web... Continue reading “Web 2.0 Workshops at ZSR” ›
A year ago, Steve Cramer initiated a get together of UNCG and WFU library staff to talk about reference technology. We had a great time visiting our colleagues, talking about common issues, and brainstorming about the future of our distinct part of the field. Yesterday, we met for a second time. A similar group from... Continue reading “Instructional Technology Meeting” ›
During the summer of 2009, the Asolare Arts Foundation will have 3 separate art shows in the ZSR Library exhibit cases. This art provides a nice change from the academic, text based exhibits we usually have. These shows will be enjoyed by all I’m sure. John Cahoon is the first artist’s exhibition. Continue reading “Asolare Art Exhibits” ›
Today was the final day of the teaching teaching spring class. We’ve been at it since January, and we’ve held 14 sessions. We’ve had 14 hours (less the minutes early I left for committee meetings) to devote some serious time to coming together as a group to talk about our teaching and hopefully learn a... Continue reading “Teaching Teaching Wrap-Up” ›
Today was the final day of the teaching teaching spring class. We’ve been at it since January and have met 14 times. This means folks have devoted some serious time to coming together as a group to talk about their teaching and hopefully learn a few tricks. I started today talking about my design for... Continue reading “Day 14: Synthesis, the Meta” ›
Thomas Dzuback, a Wake Forest student, put up a show of his art work in the ZSR Library during April and May, 2009. Continue reading “Student Art Exhibit” ›
Today’s session was on the scholarship of teaching and learning. I really wanted to make sure to include it because this is something we’re all capable of doing right now and is nice to address after covering most of the content. I’m also saving the last class for wrap up and synthesis. So, here are... Continue reading “Day 13: SoTL” ›