The ZSR Library Blog
After two years of study, librarians at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library will change their status from University staff to library faculty. Library Director Lynn Sutton consulted with the University Senate, Wake Forest College faculty, Dean’s Council, Cabinet, and Academic Committee of the Board of Trustees in the effort to give librarians a share of... Continue reading “ZSR Librarians Attain Library Faculty Status” ›
Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend the 2009 Administrative Professionals Conference at Bridger Field House. Our audience was made up of Administrative Professionals from WFU, WFU-Health Sciences, WSSU, UNC School of the Arts and Forsyth Technical Community College. The majority of the audience was female, but there were 3 males at the conference yesterday!... Continue reading “Kristen – Administrative Professionals Conference” ›
Recently, I was asked to repair and recover a small box used for transporting communion materials. I assume this would be used for taking communion to an ill person who couldn’t travel. I removed all the hardware, and recovered the box with book cloth. I then, replaced the handles and latch. It seems to be... Continue reading “Is this Preservation?” ›
Earth Day was observed at ZSR a few days early this year, with the second annual “Celebrating Nature” program that was held on Thursday, April 16. Three speakers gave their perspectives on the importance of recycling in terms of conservation strategies, preservation techniques, and the connections on a local and broader canvas.It was also scheduled... Continue reading “The Second “Celebrating Nature: Earth Day @ ZSR” program” ›
This morning our ITC filming studio had its inaugural use this morning. Our own production engineer Barry Davis worked with students to film in front of a green screen so that they can superimpose an image of Mexico City. Many thanks to Barry for taking on the heavy lifting of this project and to making... Continue reading “ITC Film studio hits inaugural use, goes multi-lingual in one morning” ›
The Z. Smith Reynolds Library offers several new technologies to enhance your class. If you would like a blog (including a podcast blog) or wiki, the library can support you, from instruction in its use to providing a web site for your course. For help getting started, please contact the Instructional Design Librarian. The ZSR... Continue reading “ZSR Offers Tools, Services and Workshops for Your Classes” ›
Faculty and students working on multimedia projects now have more equipment available for this purpose. In addition to the existing digital cameras and camcorders available for check-out from the library’s Information Technology Center (ITC), we now have Three new JVC HD hard drive camcorders, Three new Olympus audio recorders for creating podcasts, and A new... Continue reading “New Multimedia Equipment and Facilities Now Available” ›
Today’s class focused on the practical, down and dirty, aspects of classroom management. Since I knew this was a topic of interest for several people, and that we had already covered IGI and Conversation Theory a bit in another session, I decided to focus our attention on the classroom aspects of teaching. If anyone’s particularly... Continue reading “Day 11: Classroom Management Q & A” ›
President Jimmy Carter and writer Maya Angelou will speak at the Southeast regional gathering of the New Baptist Covenant April 24 and 25 at Wake Forest University. Angelou, Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest, will deliver the opening address. Carter will give the closing address. Continue reading “Jimmy Carter and Maya Angelou exhibits” ›
With “Cloud Computing” popping up all over the place, I figured we could use an emerging tech talk on the topic. Today, 13 of us got together to discuss the topic. We started with a brief overview of what cloud computing is, talking about some services we’re all familiar with that fall into the category.... Continue reading “Emerging Tech Talk: Cloud Computing” ›