Events & Outreach
The Z. Smith Reynolds Library features a variety of events, workshops, and more. The library often partners with other units on campus to offer these programs. For more information, contact the library.
Upcoming Events
–ZSR Library, Special Collections & Archives Research Room (Room 625)Tobacco has played a significant role in shaping North Carolina’s cultural, economic, and social identity, even before the state’s official establishment. Early depictions of Native American communities along the coast at the end of the 16th century show cultivation and use of the plant.
During the 19th century, tobacco became a cornerstone of the plantation economy, generating immense wealth for select families. In the 20th century, the rise of mass production and commercialization, along with an expanding labor force dedicated to its cultivation and processing, further embedded tobacco in North Carolina’s way of life. Marketing campaigns and iconic imagery tied to tobacco are deeply woven into the state’s historical narrative.
This exhibit showcases images, artifacts, and records from Special Collections & Archives, spanning from the sixteenth century to the modern era. It also features contributions from North Carolina artists and photographers, including Daisha Bunn and Erin Kye and their families, as well as works by photographer Dan Routh.
–ZSR Library, Room 476CLASS and the Grad School of Arts & Sciences are partnering together with the Writing Center and ZSR to host a weekly formal writing group for grad students throughout the Spring semester. This common space and hour offers community with your peers; live feedback from peers and Writing Center and CLASS staff on your academic, professional, or personal writing work; and tips and tricks each week on time management, writer’s block, and more. Free snacks will be provided!
–ZSR Library, Room 476Join us for an interactive workshop titled “Preparing for Success: Build Your Finals Study Plan.” Participants will leave with their very own detailed study schedule for finals week. Workshop will be held on Thursday, April 24 at 6pm in ZSR 476.
–ZSR LibraryWake the Library – snacks, giveaways for students during final exams.
–ZSR Library, Special Collections & Archives Research Room (Room 625)Special Collections will host a visit/presentation with Sauda Mitchell, our Samuel Gladding Fellow, where she will discuss her artist’s book she has created for our collections. The title of her remarks is To Tell Her Glories with a Faithful Tongue, which will pay homage to the literary and cultural contributions of Black Women Writers through the lens of archival material analysis and letterpress printing. This work of art in book form features student text inspired by course readings and analysis of primary sources from Special Collections, including the Maya Angelou Film & Theater Collection, Phillis Wheatley’s Poems and pamphlets. To Tell Her Glories with a Faithful Tongue embodies connectivity of thought, creativity, ideas, and reflection through poetry, letterpress, printmaking, and materiality. Refreshments will be served.
–ZSR Library, Room 204Join us to learn the basics of AI and generative AI, and how it may be used here at Wake Forest and beyond. In this workshop, we will explore how generative AI works, its potential applications, what to know before using it, and then we’ll explore a few tools. We hope you’ll join us!