The ZSR Library Blog
Heather Works on Trusses at the WFU Habitat House As part of the Wake Forest University/Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Habitat Build, ZSR Library sent a crew of 10 to work on the site on Wed. September 9. Volunteers from all 4 library teams were represented and worked together so well that the Habitat... Continue reading “ZSR Library at the WFU Habitat for Humanity House” ›
Giz on Facebook He’s working with four classes that are using Fan pages to share information/host class discussions/etc Good idea to use consistent naming principles to make it easier to locate the course pages Students have to become a fan to have the information show up in their feeds Professors have to have an understanding... Continue reading “September 8: Facebook, Twitter, and LibGuides as Course Pages” ›
The Z. Smith Reynolds Library will be holding a student focus group on our new catalog on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 from 1p.m. to 1:30p.m. We want to evaluate the usefulness of the new catalog and gather suggestions for improvement. If you have a few minutes, we would appreciate your help. Please visit the Circulation... Continue reading “Student Focus Group on Our New Catalog” ›
The NYT has a interesting update on the status of the GoogleBooks legal issues this morning. There are some curious tidbits in the article including a mention of a “book rights registry” that Google asserts will coordinate rights payments to publishers. Of note, the article also mentions the Europeana Digital Library, a multi-institutional repository of... Continue reading “GoogleBooks Legal discussions continue” ›
We’re in the midst of round two of teaching teaching! I have worked up the schedule, and posted it in the side bar. I have paper notes from the first session that I’ll convert to a blog post very soon. I also will rework the tags/categories to still have meaning for this second round. Here... Continue reading “Round Two!” ›
When Roz and I talked about how to organize this semester’s teaching class, we decided to do it a bit differently. Instead of Roz or me organizing each session and lecturing for a while, we thought we’d shift the center of the discussion to the participants. Each session of this semester’s teaching teaching will be... Continue reading “September 1: Course Format” ›
Student assistants Rebekah Warner and Brad Binder work the first shift at the Bridge. ZSR Library is partnering with the University’s Information Systems to bring a new combined service to the space in the library that previously housed the Information Technology Center. ZSR technology services will continue to be offered with a multimedia lab equipped... Continue reading “The Bridge Quietly Opens ZSR Services” ›
Yesterday afternoon, Giz and I presented “Technology Tools for the Classroom” to an off-site faculty retreat of the Schools of Business. You may recall that the Calloway and Babcock schools have merged under a single dean; the combined faculty met at the Brookstown Inn for the day to kick off the new academic year. Michelle... Continue reading “Mary and Giz’s Awesome Adventure” ›
On Wednesday the Z. Smith Reynolds Library implemented a new discovery system for their library collections. The system, developed initially by Villanova University, employs innovative indexing and searching techniques to help patrons find and interact with library resources. This new tool adds the ability for patrons to discover new relationships between resources through the use... Continue reading “New discovery interface for library resources” ›
Over the last few weeks, Kevin, Jean-Paul and I have been finalizing the release of our Vufind implementation by working through the list of issues and observations submitted by library staff in our wiki. We were able to resolve many of the issues but did choose to hide/work around certain functions that had too many... Continue reading “Vufind poised to go live Wednesday!” ›