The beloved home of George Washington almost slipped away from American tradition when the death of his great nephew who had inherited the farm and house at Mount Vernon left a desperate widow, Jane Washington, trying to sell the first presidential home in our country’s history. It was in derelict condition and in dire need... Continue reading “George Washington’s Mount Vernon, a Women’s Crusade and the Biblical Recorder” ›
ZSR’s virtual summer book club is back in 2026. Campus community members are invited to join alumni, parents, and other library friends in reading two books touching on the theme of public health: Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green and Year of Wonders: A Novel by Geraldine... Continue reading “2026 ZSR Virtual Summer Book Club” ›
We are continuing our crowdsourced transcription work with From the Page. If you’re new to ZSR, or need a refresher, From the Page is an online platform that takes the difficulty out of transcription work by enabling institutions and organizations to easily crowdsource and collaborate with volunteers on transcription projects. Our first projects began with... Continue reading “From the Page Updates and What’s Ahead” ›
National Library Week is here! Z. Smith Reynolds Library is joining libraries across the country in celebrating the ways libraries transform lives, strengthen communities, and support learning. This year’s National Library Week theme is “Find Your Joy.” It invites all to reflect on what sparks joy in the library, whether that is discovering a new... Continue reading “National Library Week 2026” ›
Annual Report, 2025 It’s that time of year to share an update on everything Special Collections & Archives (SCA) accomplished in 2025. We achieved a great deal this year, and the biggest news is that the Wake Forest Historical Museum (WFHM), located in Wake Forest, NC, is now affiliated with SCA. As we prepare for... Continue reading “Annual Report, 2025 – Special Collections & Archives/Wake Forest Historical Museum” ›
The ZSR Library has entered a year-long trial of Consensus through April of 2027. Consensus is an AI-powered search engine that instantly finds, analyzes, and summarizes peer-reviewed research. Consensus currently searches 250+ million peer-reviewed academic papers, pre-prints, and conference proceedings. Its corpus includes articles indexed in Semantic Scholar, Open Alex, ArXiv, PubMed, CrossRef, and ORCID... Continue reading “Consensus Trial through ZSR” ›
Wayne Oates is well known in Christian evangelical circles as the pioneer in Christian Psychology and the field of Christian Counseling. He explored how the study of human psychology fit into historic Christian theology and authored multiple books in this field now commanded by best selling authors like Gary Chapman (also once a Wake Forest... Continue reading “Wayne Oates, Christian Psychology and World War II” ›
Since completing the Richard M. Burr Congressional Collection (check my previous blog posts for more information about that project) I have been hard at work on the many new accessions that SCA has accumulated throughout 2025. Today, I present to you a roundup of some of these brand new accessions, all available for research in... Continue reading “New Accessions Roundup” ›
Completed books Student working I’ve taught quite a few bookbinding classes in LiB260. through the years, I’ve fine tuned the class after each one ends to meet students needs and abilities so they have a good experience. In the beginning, we used 2 class sessions to sew up a text block, make a case for... Continue reading “Bookbinding in LIB260 – History of Material Texts” ›
This blog post was written by Special Collections & Archives Student Assistant Anne Jones ’26. Since the fall of 2025, Meg Campbell (’25) and I (Anne Jones) have been editing, organizing, and updating the “Buildings & Roads of Wake Forest University” guide. The original project was made by former student employee John Walsh (’14) who... Continue reading “Updating Buildings & Roads” ›
