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The library will host workshops this summer on: Using iPads: A Panel Discussion E-books for Scholarly and Popular Use: A Panel Discussion Video Editing 101 and Video Editing 201 SMART Boards™ at WFU Google Docs and Sites for Collaboration Zotero for Managing your Citations Visit the PDC website for more information on these and other... Continue reading “Upcoming Technology Workshops” ›
The ZSR Interlibrary Loan (ILL) department has achieved the RUSA “STARS” rating. The Reference and User Service Association (RUSA) is part of American Library Association, and the Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS) is one of RUSA’s sections. The STARS rating results from a Resource Sharing Best Practices Survey conducted last year by... Continue reading “Interlibrary Loan Receives STARS Rating!” ›
If you use the east entrance to ZSR, you may have seen three new student murals. Students in ART 211: Intermediate Drawing (Instructor: Alix Hitchcock) executed the murals in fall 2010. These new works join the two murals from the previous year, when ZSR held a student contest. The three new murals are: Untitled by... Continue reading “Three New Student Murals Decorate ZSR” ›
For those who are interested, here are some more data that focus on the location and date distribution of matched titles. Distribution of publication dates Distribution of location of matched books location_name count(location_name) Cambria Press 1 Director’s Office 1 Docs Librarian’s Office 1 ER Librarian’s Office 1 ITC Collection 1 Philosophy 1 Romance 1 TLC... Continue reading “More on HathiTrust overlap” ›
Since ZSR library started looking at the HathiTrust as a potential source of out-of-copyright electronic texts people have been asking ‘how does our collection compare to HT?’ The short answer is (based on comparison of valid OCLC numbers) 366,800 out of 8.5 Million titles, or about 29% of our collection, slightly less than was recently... Continue reading “How much overlap do we have with the HathiTrust?” ›
The technology department has implemented the latest version of VuFind (VuFind 1.1) which is an upgraded version of our current VuFind (VuFind 1.0RC2). Although there were important back-end enhancements to VuFind 1.1, this blog post is going to discuss some of the new improvements that impact the front-end of the application. The new features include... Continue reading “New implementation of VuFind (VuFind 1.1)” ›
As I have been re-cataloging books in rare, I have come across many titles that even though they have call number slips in them, have no record for them in the catalog. It has gotten to the point when I am more surprised when a book is actually in the catalog than when it isn’t.... Continue reading “Finding cool things” ›
Last Thursday I had the opportunity to attend the 2011 Administrative Professionals Conference at the LJVM Coliseum Annex. Our audience was made up of Administrative Professionals from WFU, WFU-Health Sciences, WSSU, UNC School of the Arts and Forsyth Technical Community College. We had approximately 240 attendees. I have been on the Administrative Professionals Committee for... Continue reading “Administrative Professionals Conference 2011” ›
On the evening of Monday, May 2nd, Wanda, Prentice, Angela and I were on deck to serve 325 Chick-Fil-A sandwiches, bananas, grapes and water to our students! We arrived at 11pm only to be reminded that “Wake The Library” is such a well-planned event that there was little to do prior to the food arriving.... Continue reading “Monday Night’s “Wake The Library”” ›
ZSR Library is fortunate to have a personal collection from influential but lesser known Italian director, Giuseppe De Santis. De Santis worked with a number of well-known actors and actresses including Peter Falk, Yves Montand, Claudia Cardinale, Silvana Mongano and Marcello Mastroianni. The Giuseppe De Santis Papers are housed in the Department of Special Collections... Continue reading “The Giuseppe De Santis Film Stills Collection” ›