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Dear Class of 2015, Welcome to your new life at the award-winning Z Smith Reynolds Library! ZSR stands ready to help you with your studies over the next four years. Our mission is to help you succeed, so please ask if you have questions about the library, the university, or anything else. Even if you... Continue reading “Welcome, Class of 2015” ›
As many of you already know the Office of Academic Advising has been very busy during these last two weeks registering our incoming class of new students. In addition to the staff of the OAA, 15 other members of the WFU community also volunteered to assist in the registration process. Roz and I were two... Continue reading “A New Approach to Freshmen Registration at WFU” ›
Wake Forest is hosting the Great American Writers’ Camp for grades 5-8 this summer. The participants meet weekday mornings and will be on campus until July 1. On Monday, June 27, I gave a tour to 14 students who are participating in the two-week day camp. The camp is designed to help students develop their... Continue reading “Great American Writers visit ZSR” ›
Those who use the East Entrance to ZSR behind Starbucks may have noticed that one of the student murals located there was damaged last semester when a door was slammed open and the handle punctured the wall. Facilities fixed the hole, (and put in door stoppers to prevent future damage) but the new drywall needed... Continue reading “Mural Repaired!” ›
Tour of Recycle America When the Sustainability Committee toured the campus recycling facilities last fall, we learned that WFU diverts tons of material from the landfill through recycling. In fact, the university gets paid for recycling certain materials.Thus, recycling contributes to sustainability in several ways: it helps the landfill by lessening the tonnage we dump,... Continue reading “Sustainability Update #4 – What’s Next” ›
This is my 3rd installment in a series of updates about sustainable activities on campus and in town. Forsyth Futures (http://www.forsythfutures.org/) is a non-profit organization that gathers community indicators to monitor the county’s position and progress on initiatives.On May 24th, Forsyth Futures held a two-hour meeting called “Thinking for the Future: Sustainability Initiatives in Forsyth... Continue reading “Sustainability Update #3 – Forsyth Futures” ›
Green Team Dedee deLongpre Johnston, Director of Sustainability at WFU, has invited each operating unit on campus to establish a Green Team Captain to join her campus-wide council. Peter and I serve as co-captains from ZSR since Peter’s schedule prevents him from attending most of the events. The Green Team Captains meet quarterly with Dedee... Continue reading “Sustainability Update #2 – Green Team” ›
Sustainability Updates This spring has been a busy one for sustainability advocates; I thought I’d let you know what I’ve been doing in a short series covering Earth Day, the Green Team, and a recent county-wide meeting called by Forsyth Futures. Earth Day Earth Day 2011 was a smashing success. It was held in the... Continue reading “Sustainability Update #1 – Earth Day” ›
For months, ZSR staff have been strategically moving lower-use journals to a new, state-of-the-art, off-site storage building. The facility, located on 30th Street just past the Wake Forest Baseball Park, will hold approximately 200,000 volumes. The first stage of the relocation project involved about 100,000 journal volumes formerly housed in a leased commercial space. As... Continue reading “Shifting Spaces: Off-Site Storage, Auditorium and DVD Center” ›
The ZSR Interlibrary Loan (ILL) department has achieved the RUSA “STARS” rating. The Reference and User Service Association (RUSA) is part of American Library Association, and the Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS) is one of RUSA’s sections. The STARS rating results from a Resource Sharing Best Practices Survey conducted last year by... Continue reading “Interlibrary Loan Receives STARS Rating!” ›