Hello! I’m Sam Sfirri, the new Collections Archivist in the Special Collections & Archives team at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. It has been almost three months since I started in this position, having worked as a digital archivist for the previous five years at the Kislak Center for Special Collections,... Continue reading “Processing My First Collection as a New Member of the ZSR Special Collections & Archives Team” ›
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina was organized in 1830; among its founders were the future first president of Wake Forest College Samuel Wait and Thomas Meredith, the first editor of the Biblical Recorder, the convention’s voice in print since 1835. For 190 years now, the Biblical beliefs, church practices, and struggles of the... Continue reading “The Biblical Recorder and an Origins Story” ›
Welcome back to another installment of 5 Questions! If you would like to choose 5 Questions yourself, feel free to choose 5 from this form. Lauren Pressley, Dean of Z. Smith Reynolds Library Tell us about what you do at ZSR Library? Fundamentally, I work for the success of the Wake Forest University and Z.... Continue reading “5 Questions with Lauren Pressley” ›
ZSR Library is excited to join the Intercultural Center for the annual World Cultural Festival (WCF). At WCF you can engage with various cultural student organizations to learn more about them, interact with multiple campus departments, get free giveaways, enjoy free cultural food from vendors around the Piedmont-Triad area, enjoy musical and dance performances from... Continue reading “ZSR @ World Cultural Festival” ›
Join ZSR Library, Board Game Club, Esports Association, Rook & Bishop, and World Tea Association for an evening of Halloween fun! In addition to games and tea tastings from our partnering student organizations, the ZSR Ambassadors are hosting a costume contest & trick or treating in the stacks! There will be snacks, tarot card readings,... Continue reading “Halloween Game Night 2025” ›
Stop by our table at the ZSR Library from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm on Oct. 6th for snacks, giveaways, and more! It is a great chance to learn more about the amazing library services and resources that we offer. Academic Resources Awareness Week (ARAW) is an annual event every fall semester. The goal of... Continue reading “Academic Resources Awareness Week @ ZSR” ›
Richard Murdoch, Liz (Parish) Beasley ’79 and Lyn Tribble ’80 printing in Anne Yeats Cuala Press Studio, Dublin,Ireland Michael Thomas ’79 who also printed with Richard Murdoch in Dublin In November, 2024, our former colleague, Stephanie Bennett, left me a Winston Salem Twin City Sentinel article (entitled: WFU’s Rare Book Librarian Prints Books at Irish... Continue reading “Interview with Liz Beasley ’79: Printing in Ireland with Richard Murdoch and 2 other WFU Students” ›
Since the Fall Break of 2017, the ZSR Library has hosted a workshop series for graduate students. The idea came from a presentation panel at ACRL 2017 in Baltimore, where Kennesaw University described a fall break graduate student “boot camp.” In 2020, thanks to a suggestion by one of our presenters, we rebranded the program... Continue reading “ZSR Graduate Student Research Retreat Workshops for Fall 2025” ›
Welcome back to another installment of 5 Questions! If you would like to choose 5 Questions yourself, feel free to choose 5 from this form. Sam Sfirri, Collections Archivist Tell us about what you do at ZSR Library? I work as part of the Special Collections & Archives (SCA) team to make our archival collections... Continue reading “5 Questions with Sam Sfirri” ›
