News and more from ZSR Library
ZSR Library is hosting a celebration for King Day on January 20, 2009. Speakers from the Wake Forest University Faculty and the Student Body will discuss the topic: “The Dream Realized? What Barack Obama’s Election Means to America?” There will also be music to end the MLK Program. A group of books about Martin Luther... Continue reading “MLK Day” ›
Anglophiles rejoice! The library has added several primary source databases for the study of Britain and its colonies. We also added additional resources on the U.S. Congress. More… New and Expanded Resources British Periodicals – Searchable full text of hundreds of British periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 20th century. The individual... Continue reading “Database News” ›
Today’s Emerging Tech Talk was on the Google Books Settlement with a brief introduction to the Life Magazine Photo Archive that is now available through Google. I gave an image heavy presentation, so here is the bit about the Life (with extra notes slides): If you’re interested in searching for images, you can go to... Continue reading “Emerging Tech Talk: Google Books Settlement” ›
This Spring Semester Roz and I will be leading weekly sessions on instruction. We’re planning to cover a lot: instructional design, educational theory, teaching and learning styles, while giving everyone the opportunity to swap and share along the way. We’re going to attempt to model teaching strategies along the way, so this is the online... Continue reading “Welcome to the “Course” Blog” ›
First rule of serving food at the Late Night Breakfast? Don’t leave your tongs under the heat lamp! (They get really hot!) On Monday, December 8th, I joined a group of Wake Forest staff and faculty as we served an all-you-can-eat breakfast in “The Pit” from 9 – 11:30 p.m. Entertainment was provided by various... Continue reading “The Late Night Breakfast – Fall 2008” ›
This month’s emerging technologies talk was requested from several people: a discussion of some of the similarities and differences between popular photosharing sites. We were working with a limited time span, so we covered the three top contenders: Flickr, Picasa, and Facebook. If you’re interested in more information about current photosharing site, ReadWriteWeb has a... Continue reading “Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, Oh My!” ›
On December 8, 16 students in Dr. Jeff Lerner’s FYS on Herodotus discussed their exhibits as a final projects. While the doors let in extremely cold air and people streamed in and out of Starbucks, the class which were divided into groups of 2 and 3, discussed each display. These students will worked on their... Continue reading “First Year Seminar exhibits – Herodotus” ›
Several library titles were placed in the new exhibit cases to signify the importance of the election of 2008. This exhibit-although small-was noticed by many, who asked that I remove the books so they could check them out! Continue reading “The Election of Barack Obama” ›