News and more from ZSR Library
The six of us from ZSR who are participating in Weight Watchers at work (Heather, Roz, Mary Beth, Julia, Megan and Susan) are keeping a log of how much weight (collectively) we lose so we are accountable. This was a great week – We are 8.2 pounds lighter then we were last week!! GO US!!! Continue reading “ZSR Gettin’ Skinny!” ›
The library entrance will be temporarily relocated. Summer will be a busy time at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library with renovations taking place in several areas of the building. The two 24-hour study rooms will be completely renovated with a coffee shop on one side and a new quiet study area on the other. Our... Continue reading “Summer Renovations at ZSR” ›
On Wednesday, March 25th, 7 members of the ZSR Staff, Rosalind Tedford, Mary Beth Lock, Lauren Pressley, Kaeley McMahon, Sarah Jeong, Christian Burris and myself loaded up in the WFU Student Life van and headed up 421 to visit the ASU Library and Information Commons in Boone. We arrived and started a tour around 10:30am.... Continue reading “ZSR Staff Development Tour of the ASU Library and Information Commons” ›
Just to update everyone on the merger of Reference and Current Periodicals. Over Spring Break I started to shift the Reference collection to take advantage of the space we have made with relocations and weeding. We are consolidating our collection much more than in the past and are not leaving an enormous amount of room... Continue reading “Reference Shifting Has Begun” ›
This week I went to the North Carolina Association of Educational Communication and Technology Conference in Concord, NC. I wrote about the sessions I went to on our professional development blog. While I was only able to spend the day, I found the conference very interesting & was really amazed at how refreshing seeing some... Continue reading “Erik learns more about k-12 education” ›
Wake Forest University will be having a planned outage of phone service from Friday, March 8 at 8pm until Monday, March 10 at 8am. During this time, the library’s usual phone service will be interrupted, and voice mail will not be possible. If you need to reach the library during that time, please note: For... Continue reading “Phone Outage, March 8-10” ›
While at the First-Year Experience Conference (blog post, podcast), I heard several schools talk about their summer reading programs for freshmen. One book came up at several of these sessions, Tracy Kidder’s “Mountains Beyond Mountains.” It is the story of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man working to stamp out diseases like Multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis while... Continue reading “Book Review – “Mountains Beyond Mountains” by Tracy Kidder” ›
While traveling to the First-Year Experience conference (see my postings on the ZSR Professional Development Blog) I read Robin Wasserman’s book “Lust.” It is the first in a series of books, each based on one of the seven deadly sins. The characters are all seniors in high school living in the fictional town of Grace.... Continue reading “Book Review – Robin Wasserman’s “Lust”” ›
Susan Smith, Head of Information Technology at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, has been selected to receive the 2008 Innovation Award from the Instruction Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Susan will receive a prize of $3000 and a plaque at the annual meeting of the American Library Association in Anaheim this... Continue reading “ZSR Librarian Recognized for Innovation” ›
A project called “ZSR Library Inventory” began ever so quietly back on July 19th, 2001 with a hand-held scanner, an Access database, and the tireless dedication of Patrick Ferrell and ZSR student employees. I am glad to report that, a mere six and half years ( and two complete building inventories) later, we have narrowed... Continue reading “ZSR Officially Loses 4,669 Books” ›