From the 2010 Senior Showcase: (L to R) Professor Paul Escott, Honoree Anna Nicodemus, Honoree Malloy Durr, Professor Helga Welsh, Professor Kendall Tarte, Honoree Courtney Vris ZSR will sponsor the second annual “Senior Showcase” to recognize outstanding senior thesis research and senior projects completed by Wake Forest undergraduates. Last year’s pilot showcase honored three seniors.... Continue reading “Nominate Outstanding Theses for the Senior Showcase” ›
Mustafa Abdullah, 2010 WFU graduate and recipient of the 2010 MLK Building the Dream Award, spoke in January on his work as a community organizer promoting Dr. King’s dream of social justice. Values, Education and Governance in Nigeria: How Would the Country Get the Right Balance? Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 3 p.m. Room 204, ZSR... Continue reading “Spring 2011 Library Lecture Series” ›
The library will host workshops this spring on: Audience response systems (“Clickers“) Prezi, an online presentation application Zotero, a basic, open-source citation manager Using Google Docs and Google Sites for Collaboration View these and other events! Additionally, find supporting documentation for Zotero, EndNote, Clickers and SMARTTM Boards, as well as many other applications, on the... Continue reading “Upcoming Technology Workshops” ›
The Special Collections Department at ZSR recently received two grants to digitize primary documents of North Carolina religious history. Librarians from the North Carolina Baptist Historical Collection at ZSR are participating with colleagues at Duke and UNC-CH on a planning grant sponsored by the Library Services and Technology Act. The History of Religion in North... Continue reading “Digitizing North Carolina Religious History” ›
Patrologia Latina This large multivolume set has been replaced by a searchable, online database. This full-text, indexed electronic version includes many major Christian Latin texts written from A.D. 200 to 1216. Mergent WebReports The ZSR Library also recently purchased the online version of the Mergent Corporate Manuals. Company information can be retrieved for a single... Continue reading “Database News” ›
THIS WORK has a greater aim than mere illustration; we do not introduce colours for the purpose of entertainment, or to amuse by certain combinations of tint and form, but to assist the mind in its researches after truth, to increase the facilities of instruction, and to diffuse permanent knowledge. Oliver Byrne (ca. 1810-1890) was... Continue reading “Rare Book of the Month: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid, by Oliver Byrne (1847)” ›
As many of you know, I am a HUGE fan of the American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. HUGE. So when I noticed that Peggy Smith in the Art Department was teaching a seminar on him this semester I asked her if I could sit in on the class in return for being the ’embedded’ librarian... Continue reading “Embedded in Art Seminar” ›
Appearing today, an article – Prelude to a Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1962 Speech to Recently-Integrated Wake Forest – by Susan Faust and John Llewellyn, uses archival research to place King’s speech in the context of integration at WFU, public perception of King in 1962 and contemporary media coverage. Among the many arresting passages... Continue reading “Martin Luther King at Wake Forest University, October 1962” ›
On Friday, January 14th, The ZSR Library and the Office of Student Life teamed up to offer our second “Capture the Flag@ZSR”. Check out Susan’s wonderful photos (including a cool time lapse movie) While not as heavily attended as the first capture the flag event we held in August, around half of the students who... Continue reading “Another Successful “Capture the Flag@ZSR”!” ›