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Special Collections & Archives is honored to host a selection of photography from University Photographer Ken Bennett. The exhibit will be up in the Special Collections & Archives Research Room (ZSR 625) through December 31st. Artist’s Statement: The photographs in this exhibit all have a common theme: they include the Z. Smith Reynolds library in... Continue reading “Worth a Thousand Words: Ken Bennett’s Photographs of ZSR” ›
Special Collections and Archives has been busy this first Summer session! With the help of Kristin Weisse and Martha Fulton, we have been processing (and re-processing) lots of collections. This includes appraisal and rehousing. We are thrilled to publish finding aids for the following collections: David L. Smiley Papers Percival Perry Papers Doris Walters Papers... Continue reading “More Processed Collections!” ›
The following post was written by Monique Swaby, Religion in North Carolina Project graduate assistant. My name is Monique Swaby and I am the graduate assistant working with research and outreach for the Religion in North Carolina Project at Wake Forest University’s Department of Special Collections and Archives. I am a graduate of Smith College,... Continue reading “Religion in North Carolina Project News” ›
How did a literary magazine from Wake Forest wind up in the Smithsonian Libraries’ Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology? Until recently, neither the Dibner Library nor Special Collections & Archives at Wake Forest University knew that it had. In a post on the Smithsonian Libraries Unbound blog, Vanessa Haight Smith (Head of... Continue reading “Beneath the binding of an astronomical treatise, scraps of a Wake Forest campus publication revealed” ›
Applications are now being accepted for 2014-15 Special Collections and Archives research grants. The Provost’s Grant for Library Research and the ZSR Travel Grants provide financial support for visiting researchers who wish to use Wake Forest’s manuscripts, rare books, or archival collections. Since its inception in 2009, the ZSR Special Collections and Archives grants program... Continue reading “Grant Funding Supports Research at ZSR Special Collections and Archives” ›
Did you ever wonder who Jasper Memory was? Or want to know more about Bostwick Residence Hall? We have got the online exhibit for you! Special Collections & Archives is excited to release Buildings & Roads of Wake Forest University: A Student Perspective on our University’s History. This project started last summer when John Walsh, Class... Continue reading “Buildings & Roads of WFU: A Student Perspective” ›
Special Collections and Archives has been very actively processing and re-processing collections over the past months and we are pleased to share the finding aids with our public! As part of our collections overhaul and shifting project, manuscript collections 1-11 have been reviewed, processed, and have had finding aids published: Account Books, Fayetteville, Cumberland County,... Continue reading “Lots of New Finding Aids Online!” ›
Special Collections and Archives is honored to be included in the North Carolina Preservation Consortium’s list of North Carolina’s Most Endangered Artifacts. You may have already ready about the “discovery” of our Philomathesian Banner in Wake Forest Magazine. You can read more about the history of the banner and the plans for conservation as well as... Continue reading “Wake Forest’s Endangered Artifact” ›
A new finding aid is available from Special Collections for the Baptist Women in Ministry of North Carolina Collection. This group has existed since 1984, and helps to support and connect Baptist women in North Carolina who serve in a ministerial capacity. This collection has materials documenting the beginning of the group, as well as... Continue reading “New Finding Aid” ›
The Gertrude and Max Hoffmann Collection is enjoying the limelight once again. An article by ZSR Special Collections Librarian Megan Mulder about the collection is featured in the Winter 2014 issue of Performance!, the publication of the Performing Arts Section of the Society of American Archivists. The entire publication is available in PDF format here. ... Continue reading “Hoffmann Collection in the News” ›