The ZSR Library Blog
The MUVS team, responsible for identifying volumes and implementing procedures to populate the new off site storage facility, has been making great strides to “MUV” the project forward. As the retrofitting of the storage facility enters its final phase before we can assume ownership of the building, Scott, Ellen M., and Alfonso, (our stalwart grad... Continue reading “Things are moving with MUVS” ›
Today saw the first convocation of Fall 2010 at WFU. The house was packed (with satellite locations as well) with freshmen and their parents. Lots of fun, of course, followed by entertainment by the WFU marching band! Welcome to the fall semester! Continue reading “WFU New Student Convocation” ›
Guest post by Ryan Shirey, Interim Director of the Writing Center & Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, WFU The Writing Center is a space for collaborative learning and conversation about the writing process. We have a group of friendly and knowledgeable peer tutors, WFU undergraduate and graduate students, who have been trained to help... Continue reading “The Writing Center moves to ZSR” ›
This Fall the ZSR Library is excited to welcome the WFU class of 2014. Our mission is simple: To Help Our Students, Faculty and Staff Succeed. Over the next few weeks we look forward to meeting you in our classes, as our student workers and as you come to the building to study or to... Continue reading “ZSR Welcomes New Students” ›
On Tuesday Aug 17, the Bridge opens our new Digital Media Lab. The lab, funded and managed by the ZSR library, Office of Entrepreneurship, Information Systems and the Chambers family fund, provides an environment where students, faculty and staff can explore new digital media and technologies. The lab contains 7 Mac Mini desktop machines, five... Continue reading “Launch of new Digital Media Lab” ›
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” ›