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The Special Collections and Archives Department has four new finding aids available online! The Germaine Bree papers finding aid Maya Angelou Film and Theater Collection finding aid Gertrude and Max Hoffman papers finding aid Inventory of the Thomas F. and Louise Gossett Papers. Many thanks to student assistants Kathleen Hill, Rachel Ernst, and Carolyn Jones... Continue reading “New Finding Aids Available for Researchers” ›
As many of you already know the Office of Academic Advising has been very busy during these last two weeks registering our incoming class of new students. In addition to the staff of the OAA, 15 other members of the WFU community also volunteered to assist in the registration process. Roz and I were two... Continue reading “A New Approach to Freshmen Registration at WFU” ›
Since 2009, I have been managing the Current Periodicals collection in the Reference Dept. Over the summer, I led the planning and shifting of the Current Periodicals collection in addition to making enough space for business print periodicals, which will be moved over from the Professional Center Library. I worked with Chris Burris, Bob Hebert,... Continue reading “Update on Current Periodicals” ›
Z. Smith Reynolds Library has contributed its four collections related to the Civil War to the digital collections portal “Civil War in the American South.” The portal includes digital collections from the Civil War Era (1850-1865) held by members of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL). The collections contributed by ZSR are: Confederate Broadsides... Continue reading “ZSR contributes to ASERL Civil War portal” ›
Since there is so much happening throughout the building, the web committee thought it would be nice to share monthly updates about what we’re doing. This month, there are three big projects on the table: Summon, getting user feedback, and new parts of the website. As we know, ZSR is adopting Summon. This search interface... Continue reading “August Web Committee Update” ›
ZSR Zephyrs 2011: Erik Mitchell (doing his farewell tour), Gretchen Edwards (bringing a new generation of spirit to the team), Rebecca Petersen (a new speed rival to Erik), Susan Smith (oldest Zephyr around), Mary Beth Lock (major cheerleader and team Pollyanna about our weekly chances at winning), and Barry Davis (sport photographer and voted most... Continue reading “ZSR Zephyrs Compete in 2011 Staff Summer Olympics” ›
Those of you with really great hearing might have heard me breathe a heavy sigh of relief this past Thursday when we dropped off the 23 boxes of Gov Docs at the UNC library. The delivery represented the end (more or less) of the VERY long Gov Doc weeding process that began back in 2004.... Continue reading “Light @ the End of the Gov Docs Tunnel (almost)” ›
Back in the Spring of 2011, the Z. Smith Reynolds Library arranged a panel discussion on social media at WFU. The panelists were Lauren Pressley, Meghan Haenn, Will Clarke and myself. The event was so well-attended and led to so much discussion afterwards, that I decided it might be time to form a WFU Social... Continue reading “WFU Social Media Users Group” ›
On Thursday, July 28th, Bobbie Collins and I attended the final presentations of the LENS students. Each group worked on a different project over the course of the three weeks of the program. These projects ranged from building and installing rain barrels at Courtney Elementary to working in the WFU Campus Garden, now known as... Continue reading “LENS 2011 Wrap Up” ›
Big news from the partially processed collection of Allen Mandelbaum‘s papers. A MLIS graduate student and WFU Latin professor, Brian Warren, has been interning this summer in Special Collections and Archives, working specifically on processing the collection of Allen Mandelbaum’s papers, translations, and the large book collection that came with these materials. He made an... Continue reading “Ungaretti and Palinurus” ›