The ZSR Library Blog
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” ›
Today was the final competition for the summer 2010 staff Olympics. As is the tradition, the event is a mystery. All the teams know is that we have to be ready to accomplish a number of odd tasks. This year, the four competitors from each team had to: juggle a beach ball without dropping it... Continue reading “Summer Olympic Challenge: Zephyrs Place Silver!” ›
Greetings from Reynolds 3! Let me begin by thanking you all for making me feel so welcome in my first weeks as a full-time staff member; I enjoyed worked 3rd shift in Access Services, but I am thrilled about my new position in Interlibrary Loan. I’m also excited about the opportunities for collaboration with ZSR... Continue reading “Meet Anna” ›
(From Bobbie) Giz and I met with 26 LENS (Learn, Experience, Navigate, Solve) students on Tuesday, July 13 to introduce them to library resources and on Wednesday, July 14 to assist them with narrowing their topic to a research question and using PowerPoint. To kick off Tuesday afternoon’s activities, students participated in a scavenger hunt.... Continue reading “LENS@WFU” ›
Each summer for the past few years, ZSR has been blessed to host a series of small art exhibits from the Asolare Fine Arts Foundation. This organization has no agenda other than supporting art and artists in our area. This summer, the first installment of work includes paintings by a married couple: Alex Clark and... Continue reading “Asolare Art Exhibit” ›
The LENS summer program is drawing 26 students from several states including Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. These students are on campus to research and study the topic of sustainability. As part of their educational experience, these students will be taking trips to local farms, food markets, and water resources to gain... Continue reading “LENS students tackle sustainability” ›