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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. Kristen Morgan, Assistant to the Dean Tell us about what you do at ZSR Library? Manage the Dean’s calendar, expense reports, purchase requisitions, invoices, travel budgets and forms, onboarding and... Continue reading “5 Questions with Kristen Morgan” ›
We’re thrilled to announce our latest additions to JSTOR’s Open Community Collections, soon to be rebranded as JSTOR’s Shared Collections beginning in July. As one of the program’s charter contributors, we initially shared our World War I poster collection in 2020. This month, we’ve included an array of captivating materials from our Special Collections and... Continue reading “ZSR Expands JSTOR’s Shared Collections” ›
Each spring, ZSR Library celebrates the achievements of our employees at the annual Employee Recognition & Awards Luncheon. At this year’s event on May 17, six colleagues were recognized for their contributions to ZSR this past year in one of four awards categories: Outstanding Staff Employee of the Year: David Link, Public Services Outstanding Faculty... Continue reading “Celebrating Our 2023 ZSR Library Employee Awards Winners” ›
My name is Kate Trathen, and in January I started working as the Richard Burr Congressional Collection Archivist at ZSR Library. I am a Raleigh native, and I received my Masters of Library Science with a concentration in Archives and Records Management from UNC-Chapel Hill. Prior to starting at Wake Forest, I was the Electronic... Continue reading “Planning and Processing of the Richard Burr Collection” ›
Towards the end of the spring semester, we hosted a visit by Daniel V. Townsend, Jr., when he donated a copy of his most recent book, Hold Tight to Your Blessings. We added the volume to the SCA collection, and have noted him as a Wake Forest author. The book is available for researchers in... Continue reading “Recent Donation by Daniel V. Townsend, Jr.” ›
This summer book club is hosted by Molly Keener, ZSR’s Director of Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication, and Shannon Bothwell, Chair of the ZSR Board of Visitors. Join us via Zoom for lively discussions of two books on art, one fiction, and one non-fiction. Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li Thursday, June 22,... Continue reading “ZSR Board of Visitors’ Virtual Summer Book Club” ›
ZSR Library is excited to announce some summer improvement projects to make the building even better! Updates to project dates and descriptions will be available here. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please email askzsr@wfu.edu or call 336-758-4932 with any questions. Pardon our dust while we work on the following projects: Elevator Replacement (May 22 –... Continue reading “ZSR Library Summer 2023 Building Renovations” ›
Parker Beverly (’23) recently drafted the update below for our Expanded Wake Voices Oral History Project in Special Collections & Archives. Parker has served as the Coordinator for this project through her senior year and I am pleased to report that she will continue in this role for the next two years, as she enters... Continue reading “Expanded Wake Voices Oral History Project: Spring 2023 Update” ›
I am back for my annual update about newly processed collections in Special Collections and Archives. Our finding aids landing page always shows the five most recently published finding aids but across the space of the academic year, thanks to the work of our student assistants, we’re updating and processing many collections. This year, we’ve... Continue reading “Newly Processed Collections This Year” ›
In April, the WFU Education Department and Education Library reached out to the ZSR Library, hoping to collaborate on a program for the Wednesday, May 3rd, “National Day of Action” sponsored by The African American Policy Forum (AAPF), an innovative think tank that connects academics, activists and policy-makers to promote efforts to dismantle structural inequality.... Continue reading “National Day of Action at ZSR” ›