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A Chapter Ends, A Chapter Begins Posted on February 24, 2013 by lauren pressley Tomorrow I start my new job, at a new library, so though I still have a few posts in the queue related to the work I had been doing, I wanted to write a post about what it was to work... Continue reading “From Lauren Pressley” ›
The ZSR Library has recently joined HathiTrust as a sustaining partner. HathiTrust began in 2008 as a collaboration of 13 universities to establish a repository for archiving and sharing library collections that were digitized as part of the initial Google Book project. Today, over 60 research libraries worldwide have committed to long-term availability of the... Continue reading “ZSR Joins HathiTrust” ›
CERN and the international particle physics community, which previously brought us the Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs boson discovery, have launched an initiative to make their journal literature Open Access. ZSR will participate in this project, dubbed SCOAP3, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics. Under the plan, CERN has negotiated... Continue reading “Particle Physicists Converting Journals to Open Access” ›
If you want to understand the candidates and issues in this election, please see the NC Center for Voter Education and 2012 NC Voter Guide. Voter Registration Deadline The registration deadline for NC is Friday, October 12. For information on how to register in NC, see the NC’s State Board of Elections page, Registering to... Continue reading “Make Your Voice Heard. Vote!” ›
Kyle Denlinger This semester, Wake Forest University welcomes a new type of student with the introduction of the online Counseling program. To help these students succeed in online learning environments, ZSR welcomes Kyle Denlinger as the new eLearning Librarian. Kyle holds a BA in Secondary Education from the University of Cincinnati and a MA in... Continue reading “ZSR Welcomes New Librarians” ›
Wake Forest has designated the ZSR Library as a fundraising priority both in ongoing development efforts and in the upcoming capital campaign. Many faculty members give regularly to the library. Last year, gifts to the Wake Forest Fund for the ZSR Library increased 34% over the prior year. Your gifts have a direct impact on... Continue reading “Leading the Way with Gifts to ZSR Library” ›
Monday, August 6th the Research and Instruction Team took a day out of ZSR for a team retreat.We had the full twelve (!) person team in attendance (not an easy feat to accomplish) including Bob Hebert (who is transitioning to RIS over the next year), Charles Hildebrandt and our newest RIS member, Kyle Denlinger who... Continue reading “RIS on Retreat!” ›
On Thursday, August 2nd, BLINC (Business Librarianship in N. Carolina) held its quarterly workshop in ZSR. BLINC is a state-wide professional association comprised of business librarians in public, academic and special libraries. We’re a section of NCLA. Among the group of roughly 20 who attended was Jill Robinson Morris, Asst. Director of NCLive, Mark Stewart,... Continue reading “BLINC comes to ZSR” ›
The ZSR Zone (formerly the Zephyrs) competed in another Biggest Winner (formerly Summer Olympics) and had a wonderful time! This year’s team was a hybrid Library and Bridge team made up of Felicia Bottoni, Anna Dulin, Tony Johnson, Molly Keener, Rebecca Petersen, and Rachel Weaver. Only one member had participated before so the team was... Continue reading “ZSR Zone finishes the Biggest Winner (Summer Olympics)!” ›
Geocaching is a kind of treasure hunt utilizing social media that is run by volunteers who leave treasures in public places and clues to find them on the Geocaching website. An avid “Geocacher” codenamed “Armorsmith” brought me this book-like vessel and asked if he could place it in the library. I’d been familiar with Geocaching... Continue reading “ZSR is a Geocaching site” ›