The ZSR Library Blog
This spring I received several requests asking for library staff to provide tours for elementary and middle school students during the week of April 11 – 15. One of the teachers who requested a tour congratulated us on the ACRL Award and noted that they were looking forward to touring our “wonderful library.” It is... Continue reading “National Library Week draws in the young folks” ›
The Z. Smith Reynolds Library is pleased to announce selections for the second annual Senior Showcase program recognizing exemplary senior research theses and projects completed by Wake Forest undergraduates in their final year. Five students have been selected to present their research on Tuesday, April 26, 2011, at 3pm in the Allen Mandelbaum Reading Room,... Continue reading “2nd Annual Senior Showcase” ›
The Provost, on the day that the ZSR Library won the ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award, graciously gave us funding to purchase furniture for the patio on the front of the library outside of room 401 (aka the Red Room). The furniture was installed today and is now open for business. The patio will... Continue reading “The patio is OPEN!” ›
“We have yet had no genius in America, with tyrannous eye, which knew the value of our incomparable materials, and saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer; then in the middle age; then in Calvinism. . . .Yet America... Continue reading “Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (1855)” ›
This semester we have been implementing a new approach to student technology training workshops at ZSR. I’ve been teaching two student assistants, one who has worked for me for four years and one who has worked for me for the last year, how to lead technology workshops for students. We team taught the workshops at... Continue reading “Peer to Peer Student Technology Training Workshops at ZSR (and DDA)” ›
I started to simply send this link to Lib-l, but decided to do a quick Gaz post instead! I recently saw a great video on Cnet Crave that gives a quick overview of using Overdrive to access books from your public library. I thought it might be of interest, especially to those of us who... Continue reading “Using Overdrive to Access Books from Your Public Library” ›
On Monday, March 28th, at the request of one of the Resident Advisers, Leigh Vogedes, Librarians from ZSR took ThinkPads to the lobby of the Babcock Residence and answered a variety of Reference questions from students as they passed. Ellen Daugman and I worked together from 1-2pm and then I covered the desk from 2-4pm.... Continue reading “Have ThinkPad, Will Travel” ›
Those of you who use the East Entrance to ZSR have seen the three new student murals along that entrance. These murals were done by students in Alix Hitchcock’s Intermediate Drawing 211 class in the Fall of 2010. These three murals join the two murals from the previous year when ZSR held a student mural... Continue reading “Three New Student Murals at ZSR” ›
If you were unable to attend the ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries award presentation Tuesday, March 22nd, want to see it again from a better vantage point, or want to share with friends, never fear! Video of the event is now streaming online. ZSR Accepts ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries award in the university category... Continue reading “Video Online of ACRL Award Presentation” ›
On Tuesday, March 22, 2011, the Office of the Provost, the Office of Research & Sponsored Programs, and the Z. Smith Reynolds Library honored the following faculty authors, editors, and fine & performing artists from January-December 2010 with a reception and dinner in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library. Faculty Honorees Robert Bliss, Schools of Business... Continue reading “Authors, Editors, and Fine & Performing Artists, January-December 2010” ›