The ZSR Library Blog
Back in August, I posted on the updates to the ZSR Graduate Student Lounge, and now, thanks to feedback from the graduate students and data from Occuspace and key card use, I’m pleased to report that we’ve seen an increase in lounge usage! We gathered more data for the week of October 21 through Oct... Continue reading “What’s New in the ZSR Graduate Student Lounge for Spring 2025?” ›
This year has been a year full of letterpress printing. I love that letterpress is getting traction in both ZSR and academic settings at Wake Forest. I was urged by Stephanie Bennett to write about the printing that happened in 2024, and so here is the Letterpress Annual Report for 2024! I began the year... Continue reading “Letterpress Printing in 2024” ›
Continue reading “Piedmont Earth Day Fair (Piedmont Environmental Alliance)” ›
On Friday, January 17th, ZSR Library hosted our third annual CozyFest- an event centered on crafting, relaxation, and tea. We teamed up with an amazing cast of campus partners and student organizations, including World Tea Association, WakerSpace, Fiber Arts Club, Culturality, Awake Forest, ZSR Ambassadors, and ZSR Special Collections and Archives to provide an array... Continue reading “CozyFest Returns! An Evening of Crafting and Comfort in ZSR” ›
Baskervill, the design firm, will be presenting its initial design concepts to the Memorialization Committee on Thursday, January 16th and I thought it would be helpful to reflect on the process. Baskervill’s goal has always been to create an artifact which would contribute something meaningful to the Wake Forest community and allow us to proactively... Continue reading “Memorial to the Enslaved: An Update (January 2025)” ›
“It smells kind of like feet down here,” I say. In truth, it smells very much like feet. “Well, yes, that’d be the shoe room,” Mary replies, pointing to an open door, through which I can see rows upon rows of shelves, overflowing with shoes of all types. It’s the smell of generations of feet,... Continue reading “Wake Forest’s Historical Costumes Take the Stage in the Digital Age” ›
We’re thrilled to announce a new addition to our collection: audiobooks through Overdrive! Now, you can listen to your favorite books wherever you are—on or off campus. Our new audiobook collection offers a wide range of genres and titles, from popular fiction and classics to nonfiction, and more. Here’s how you can start listening: Access:... Continue reading “🎧 Listen Up! New Audiobooks at ZSR!” ›
As we bid farewell to 2024, let’s take a moment to review our year in reading. The following titles from our browsing collection represent books that were frequently checked out by members of our reading community in the past year. Additionally, a few ZSR librarians and staff members wanted to share their favorite reads from... Continue reading “2024: The Year in Reading!” ›
Having trained as both an artist and an archivist, Sauda Mitchell is uniquely qualified to create works that convey artistic reinterpretations of historic texts and records. So ZSR Special Collections & Archives is delighted to be able to host her as visiting artist-in-residence during the 2024-25 academic year. Sauda’s residency is funded primarily by the... Continue reading “Words, Art, and Inspiration in the Archives” ›
The following was written by Ethan Cline, who recently completed his Capstone project with ZSR’s Special Collections and Archives. Ethan is currently pursuing his Master’s in Library and Information Science (MLIS) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His project here at ZSR covered the process of creating a digital collection–digitization, metadata creation, ingest... Continue reading “Digitizing the Samuel and Sarah Wait Papers” ›