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This fall marks the first semester of the ZSR Library’s 200-level library instruction classes, which will supplement our popular LIB100 course. These one-hour elective classes are intended for students who are majoring or minoring in a broad discipline area. These courses will strengthen students’ searching skills and help them become critical thinkers as they evaluate... Continue reading “ZSR Launches 200-Level Library Instruction Courses” ›
National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read The Forsyth County Public Library has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to sponsor a community-wide Big Read project as an extension of their annual “On the Same Page” program. The ZSR Library is a contributing partner to this project. The county-wide program... Continue reading “ZSR Partners for “The Big Read”: Fahrenheit 451” ›
Today we had the second Emerging Tech Talk session. This month’s topic: What’s new with Google? Google seems to go in phases. Sometimes their work seems to be more about software, other times it seems to be more about search and data representation. We’re in a search phase right now. So, we talked about the... Continue reading “What’s New With Google?” ›
This fiscal year, the Provost granted the library an extra $50,000 to purchase books and films for area studies (including Latin America, Africa, and Asia) and diversity studies (including African American Studies, Latino Studies and Gay & Lesbian Studies). Orders will be accepted as long as funds remain. Faculty from all departments may submit requests... Continue reading “Additional Book Money Available for Area Studies and Diversity Studies” ›
On Saturday, Z. Smith Reynolds Library’s first annual Wake the Library 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run took place under beautiful sunny skies along with cool fall temperatures. Over 150 people participated in either the fun run or the 5K race. The great weather contributed to 40 people coming out and registering that morning. The... Continue reading “Wake the Library 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run” ›
This season’s buzzword is “backfiles.” ZSR has bought two journal backfile products and one major historical index. Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003The Economist Historical Archive offers full-color page images of the The Economist back to its first issue. The full text, including advertising text, is also searchable. A new year of coverage will be added each... Continue reading “Check Out Our New/Old Electronic Databases” ›
The Z. Smith Reynolds Library is working with other Forsyth County libraries to create a digital archive of historic photographs. Please join us to kick-off a traveling photography exhibit and see the archive in action! Forsyth County Public Library Telling Our Stories Photography Exhibit–Thursday, October 16 at 1:00 pm Central Library auditorium The Forsyth County... Continue reading “Digital Forsyth Photography Exhibit” ›
“ZSR Delivers” will bring any circulating library material right to your office. The ZSR Library has purchased a golf cart to improve its delivery services to staff and faculty on the Reynolda Campus. “ZSR Delivers” will bring any circulating library material right to your office. Deliveries take place at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Monday... Continue reading “ZSR Delivers” ›
You may or may not have heard of the Toolkit, a new way of offering information literacy tutorials for our users. I’m really, really excited about this project, as I think it’s a way to meet our user’s needs in a way that fits with their expectations, potentially could help us to prepare better instructional... Continue reading “Introducing the ZSR Toolkit!” ›
The ZSR library hit the bricks today to help support the Brian Piccolo cancer research fund. Eight hours of fun, walking, and Krispy Kreme doughnuts! Susan led the team off at 11am and currently Carol Cramer is braving the headwind and clouds to keep our baton heading around the quad! Continue reading “Library hits the bricks!” ›