News and more from ZSR Library
Think BCS or NCAA championship. Seriously. Think Super Bowl. Yesterday, I received a call at home from the President of the Association of College and Research Libraries informing me that ZSR was the 2011 recipient of the ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award, the highest national honor that an academic library can achieve. Previous winners... Continue reading “ZSR wins ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award!” ›
Have you ever wondered who removes those creative Christmas decorations in the Atrium? Well this year I just happened to be around when two of Santa’s helpers (aka Travis and Peter) were taking down the decorations! Check out the video at the link below to see how it is done! So How Do We Remove... Continue reading “So How Do We Remove Those Christmas Decorations From the Atrium?” ›
After a week of off-site storage warehouse work, the following are my tips & tricks for survival. These did much to help me throughout the week, but great credit for my own survival must go to my fab teammates: Mary Beth, Susan, Erik, Scott and Jean-Paul. You guys ROCK!! 1. Wear layers, preferably with the... Continue reading “Off-site Survival Guide” ›
Some of you may recall that In the Spring of 2010 the Library had a contest to select two murals for the East Entrance. This Fall we took a different approach and teamed up with professor Alix Hitchcock to have some of her students do murals in the East Entrance to ZSR as part of... Continue reading “Two New Murals at ZSR!” ›
On Tuesday, November 23, Scott Adair, Travis Manning, Ellen Makaravage and Mary Beth Lock attended onsite training to be certified in using the forklift in our Off Site Storage facility. The morning included classroom instruction where we learned about safety procedures and maintenance schedules, then was followed by a hands-on training on the forklift itself.... Continue reading “High Bay Forklift training” ›
Did you know that ZSR Library has had a Flickr account for almost 4 years now? We have uploaded over 3,600 images, organized them into 160 sets and 21 collections! We have hundreds of tags to help find specific images (see the top 150 tags below) and our images have been viewed over 107,850 times.... Continue reading “ZSR Library Through Flickr” ›
I just returned from Raleigh where I had the honor of serving as Wake Forest’s official delegate to the installation of the new Chancellor at North Carolina State University. As you know, I love to dress up in academic regalia and march in medieval style. It was a grand occasion and I was glad to... Continue reading “Pomp and Circumstance” ›
Earlier this fall the ZSR Marketing Committee solicited Wake Forest students, faculty, staff and friends to tell us the five words they think of when they think of ZSR. We received over 100 entries and 500+ words. We took the words that were submitted and created a word cloud from the most popular words that... Continue reading “ZSR in Five Words” ›
The shelving in the Off Site Storage Facility are being installed this week. Steve Kelley and I are just back from a morning run over there with another load of boxes, and peeked our noses into the library high bay area and saw this: The high bay shelving installation has begun! (Don’t worry, we were... Continue reading “Off Site Shelves are being installed” ›
Z. Smith Reynolds Library co-workers are thrilled that Linda Early was recognized with the Wake Forest University Employee of the Year Award at the Tenth Annual Staff Awards Recognition Luncheon on October 7. Linda came to WFU as an undergraduate student in the Theatre department and has been an active member of the WFU community... Continue reading “Linda Early, 2010 WFU Employee of the Year” ›