The ZSR Library Blog
On May 25, 1921, Katharine Smith Reynolds’ school on the grounds of Reynolda House produced a dramatic version of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem The Song of Hiawatha. The passion play was arranged by F. E. Moore of Middletown, Ohio, and was photographed by the Holladay Studio of Durham, North Carolina. Children from the school... Continue reading “Reynolda School Hiawatha Photographic Album Now Online” ›
The University is working on determining learning outcomes for academic departments, and since we offer classes, we also need to come up with relevant ones. This is going to be an ongoing project. This year we just reported on the goals for LIB100: Learn how to determine the nature and extent of information needed for... Continue reading “Learning Outcomes for LIB100/200” ›
Volumes have been written on the subject of the struggle between England and America. Men of all ranks have embarked in the controversy, from different motives, and with various designs; but all have been ineffectual, and the period of debate is closed. Arms as the last resource decide the contest; the appeal was the choice... Continue reading “Common Sense, by Thomas Paine (1776)” ›
Wake Forest is hosting the Great American Writers’ Camp for grades 5-8 this summer. The participants meet weekday mornings and will be on campus until July 1. On Monday, June 27, I gave a tour to 14 students who are participating in the two-week day camp. The camp is designed to help students develop their... Continue reading “Great American Writers visit ZSR” ›
Those who use the East Entrance to ZSR behind Starbucks may have noticed that one of the student murals located there was damaged last semester when a door was slammed open and the handle punctured the wall. Facilities fixed the hole, (and put in door stoppers to prevent future damage) but the new drywall needed... Continue reading “Mural Repaired!” ›
This spring, I put up an exhibit suggested by Dr. Robert Ulery of the Classics Department. A newly published book, African American Writers and the Classical Tradition by William W. Cook and James Tatum is the focus of this exhibit. The book makes a connection between African American writers and the classical writers of Greece... Continue reading “African American Writers and the Classical Tradition” ›
In April, Dr. Earl Smith sponsored a conference at WFU to discuss issues of race in sports. The conference was a success by all accounts-and Dr. Smith was very pleased. He contacted me early to ask for a library exhibit-which highlighted the speakers. there were numerous individuals in the fields of sports: athletes, writers and... Continue reading “Sports and Race Conference” ›
After over a year of frenetic planning, boxing and relocating, months of hauling, accessioning and forklifting, and weeks of preparation and training, the Off Site Storage collection is now retrievable! Since last summer when we began to box up material to be sent to off site, records were changed in the onlie catalog on the... Continue reading “Off Site Storage–now retrievable!” ›
Text page from the first edition of Ulysses The publishing history of James Joyce’s Ulysses is itself a complicated odyssey. Joyce began writing Ulysses, a modernist novel detailing one day (16 June 1904) in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, in 1914. By 1918 he was sending typescript chapters to Ezra Pound to be published... Continue reading “Rare Book of the Month: Ulysses, by James Joyce (1922)” ›
Tour of Recycle America When the Sustainability Committee toured the campus recycling facilities last fall, we learned that WFU diverts tons of material from the landfill through recycling. In fact, the university gets paid for recycling certain materials.Thus, recycling contributes to sustainability in several ways: it helps the landfill by lessening the tonnage we dump,... Continue reading “Sustainability Update #4 – What’s Next” ›