News and more from ZSR Library
If you haven’t read this week’s Old Gold and Black you will want to check out these two articles! One is an article about the Starbucks Grand Opening and the other is an editorial about innovation at ZSR! Reading them both just made my day! Continue reading “Kudos for ZSR in this week’s OGB” ›
L-R: Mike Lancaster, Director Lynn Sutton, Provost Tiefenthaler, President Hatch, Mark Williard An official ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 30 to celebrate the Summer 2008 renovations in Z. Smith Reynolds Library, including a new Starbucks, which opened September 22. James Alty, associate vice president for facilities and campus services, was the master... Continue reading “Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Celebrates Library Renovations” ›
Room 401, the room that used to house Current Periodicals on the 4th floor of the Reynolds Wing, has been repurposed into student group and individual study space. New furniture, complete with additional power capabilities, was delivered and installed on September 25. The new space adds 82 new seats, a combination of soft seating and... Continue reading “New Study Room Ready for Students!” ›
For the third year in a row, I was invited to the Presidents’ Leadership Conference, jointly sponsored by the President of the University and the Student Government President. Student leaders invite administrators whom they wish to engage in discussion about campus issues. The format is a weekend retreat, held this year at Smith Mountain Lake... Continue reading “Presidents’ Leadership Conference” ›
As many of you know, the ZSR library is beginning to look at open source alternatives to our current systems. A few of us have seen Vufind in action and have talked about Open ILS alternatives. This discussion is just starting and should yield some interesting results in the coming months. One thing that I have... Continue reading “Open Source Business Intelligence Software” ›
It is with much joy that the ZSR library shipped the first set of our orphaned microfim off to a new home today. In recent years the library was able to replace these collections with online versions of the material and we were excited to learn of a library last week who was interested in... Continue reading “Orphaned microfilm finds new home” ›
For the past three years, an ongoing weeding project has been taking place in ZSR Library’s Government Documents Department. As more resources go online, efforts are being made to convert to electronic and reclaim much needed shelf space by removing out-of-date and out-of-scope materials. We work with the Regional Depository at UNC to ensure that... Continue reading “Government Documents/Microtext Consolidation Project” ›
Today was the final competition for the 2008 WFU Staff Summer Olympics. The challenge was a relay: Prentice and Mary Beth formed a human wheelbarrow (Prentice started out holding up Mary Beth as she walked on her hands, but they switched off midway). Then, when they arrive at the pie table, Prentice had to eat... Continue reading “Zephyrs Take Silver in the 2008 Summer Olympics” ›
Zephyrs’ Croquet Team The 2008 WFU Summer Olympics is drawing to a close next week. But there are still competitions and lifestyle points to be accumulated! This week, croquet was the contest, a first for the Olympics series. None of the Zephyrs were ringers for this sport, one that dates back to the middle ages.... Continue reading “Summer Olympic Update #4” ›
Over the past few months, Kevin and I have gotten together with a few sets of students to conduct some informal focus groups. The students we have spoken with, though a small group, have been from all years and from varying majors. Our aim is to better understand how our students find information, how they... Continue reading “Talking With Wake Students” ›