The ZSR Library Blog
We are spreading the word about the four iPads (which will grow to well over a dozen in October!) the Flip cameras, the Kindle, Nook and Sony reader, the pocket projector and more that are all available for checkout at the Bridge in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library! Events like the RA Resource Fair, Campus... Continue reading “Spreading the Word about New Equipment for Checkout at ZSR!” ›
Asolare Art Foundation installed an exhibit of children’s art in August, 2010. Continue reading “Asolare Art- Children’s Art exhibit” ›
This past week, Mary Beth Lock, Mary Reeves, Steve Jarrett and myself made the quick jaunt down I40 to visit the newly completed auditorium/viewing room at Elon University’s College of Communication. Colleagues at Elon were kind enough to let us take a look at their facility so that we could get a mental image of... Continue reading “ZSR Visits Elon U. and its new Auditorium” ›
Hello everyone! My name is Gretchen Edwards, and I’m the new Cisco Fellow. You can find me in office 302B; I’m thrilled to be a part of the ZSR team. Over the course of the year I’ll be exploring how Cisco’s technologies can foster innovative learning and increase collaboration among our campus community. So far... Continue reading “Hi from Gretchen” ›
T. S. Eliot’s bleak “anti-epic” The Waste Land is considered by many to be the most influential poetic work of the twentieth century. It was first published in book form by the New York firm Boni and Liveright in 1922, but Eliot offered the first British edition to Leonard and Virginia Woolf. The Woolfs had... Continue reading “The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, published at the Hogarth Press” ›
This summer, Wake Forest began a six month pilot for Cisco’s WebEx. WebEx is a video-based collaboration software package. It allows users to chat with text and video, host real-time meetings that can include sharing your desktop so others can see what you’re doing, writing on a whiteboard, and sharing files, and integrates with Outlook... Continue reading “Fun With WebEx” ›
We upgraded to ILLiad 8 several months ago. ILLiad 8 boasts potential and possibilities for add-ons that can make ILL operations easier, such as searching the online catalog directly from the ILLiad client. When I realized that the default Voyager add-on that ILLiad created does not search the Vufind catalog and it does key word... Continue reading “VuFind Addon for ILLiad” ›
ILLiad 8 has a very different look and functionality than its previous versions. Joe Williams, Head of Access Services at UNC-G had asked me if we wanted to pull our resources together for an ILLiad 8 training session, not knowing we had already upgraded to ILLiad 8. To give them a better idea what ILLiad... Continue reading “Hosting UNC-G and Carpenter Library for an ILLiad Demo” ›
On Thursday, July 29, we were lucky to have two special visitors from the University of Portsmouth in the UK: art professors Claire Sambrook and Maureen O’Neill, creators of the Visual Libraries project. Claire and Maureen obtained a grant to visit us here in Winston-Salem to check on the status of the Leave Your Mark... Continue reading “Community art from the UK to Forsyth County” ›
Over 50 ILL Librarians and support staff gathered today in Wake Forest’s Z. Smith Reynolds Library for a day of sharing tips, information and commiseration at the NCILL Users Group Conference. The day started with light refreshments and a meet and greet in the morning and then the group broke up into two concurrent sessions.... Continue reading “NCILL Users Group Conference- July 30, 2010” ›