The ZSR Library Blog
A story within a story, three members of the Special Collections and Archives team recount the discovery, preservation, and access of an exciting and well-traveled gem from the collection. We hope readers will enjoy the story and keep the relevance and enduring nature of the “Lebanon Greys” alive for at least another century! Vicki: It... Continue reading “A Civil War Gem found in the Archives (by Vicki, Craig and Rebecca)” ›
Last week’s Teaching Teachers focused on the briefest of overviews of Educational Psychology. We went through the PowerPoint from the last class, and talked about it’s application to our own classes. This is always a fun class to cover because there’s so much information (an entire graduate degree’s worth, in fact) that we can touch... Continue reading “Educational Psychology” ›
On Friday, October 28 at 3:00 p.m., ZSR Special Collections & Archives in conjunction with the Wake Forest School of Divinity will host “The King James Bible: Its Legend and Legacy.” The lecture and exhibit will focus on the monumental version of the English Bible which celebrates its 400th anniversary this year. The story of... Continue reading “The King James Bible: Its Legend and Legacy” ›
If one says “Red” (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different. Josef Albers, Interaction of Color (1963) The artist Joseph Albers (1888-1976) was born in... Continue reading “Formulation : Articulation, by Josef Albers (1972)” ›
Archives Week features the archival collections around North Carolina. Rebecca Peterson and I put together an exhibit which highlights the ZSR Library materials from the Civil War. These are the Confederate Broadsides, Herbert Valentine Diary, George Bright Diary and Lipe Family Letters. Continue reading “Archives Week Exhibit” ›
In the Spring of 2011, the Research and Instruction Services Team piloted a program to embed a Reference Librarian in residence halls to assist students with research late in the semester. This semester we are increasing the pilot further, setting up sessions in a variety of residence halls at a variety of times to learn... Continue reading “Embedded in the Residence Halls: Discovering What Works!” ›
Meet Chelsea Hosch. The face of the Special Collection and Archives reference desk on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, Chelsea has been doing excellent work! She is working on inputting Biographical Files into Archivists’ Toolkit and scanning all of the images in these files for a long term, highly anticipated digital project. Chelsea is a sophomore,... Continue reading “What Are You Working On? With Chelsea Hosch” ›
As the air turns crisp, I wanted to highlight some of the great collaborative work that has been happening between Special Collections and Archives and Resource Services this past Spring and Summer. In the Spring, Audra and Carolyn teamed up to begin exporting MARC records from the Archivists’ Toolkit. It was the beginning of a... Continue reading “New MARC Records!” ›
Joseph Franz von Goez’s 1783 adaptation of Lenardo und Blandine “in 160 impassioned designs” may be the world’s first graphic novel. Based on a ballad by German poet Gottfried August Bürger, Goez’s book tells the story of doomed lovers Lenardo and Blandine in a series of captioned copper etchings. Bürger’s poem is itself based on... Continue reading “Lenardo und Blandine, illustrated by Joseph Franz von Goez (1783)” ›
Today a group of us got together to talk about teaching taxonomies designed to help us think about where the students we teach and how to get them to where they need to be. I used Prezi as a way to show a slate of tools, rather than a linear talk that implies a specific... Continue reading “Teaching Taxonomies” ›