The ZSR Library Blog
Anglophiles rejoice! The library has added several primary source databases for the study of Britain and its colonies. We also added additional resources on the U.S. Congress. More… New and Expanded Resources British Periodicals – Searchable full text of hundreds of British periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 20th century. The individual... Continue reading “Database News” ›
Today’s Emerging Tech Talk was on the Google Books Settlement with a brief introduction to the Life Magazine Photo Archive that is now available through Google. I gave an image heavy presentation, so here is the bit about the Life (with extra notes slides): If you’re interested in searching for images, you can go to... Continue reading “Emerging Tech Talk: Google Books Settlement” ›
It’s arts and crafts time!! Following the boisterous and jolly Holiday Luncheon at Graylyn, staff members gathered in Wilson 476 to make holiday wreaths using book jackets collected throughout the year. Following in true “Kindergarten arts and crafts style” we had pre-cut leaves, bows, ribbons, and holly berries. If feeling particularly gifted, we also supplied... Continue reading “Book Jacket Wreaths 2008” ›
This Spring Semester Roz and I will be leading weekly sessions on instruction. We’re planning to cover a lot: instructional design, educational theory, teaching and learning styles, while giving everyone the opportunity to swap and share along the way. We’re going to attempt to model teaching strategies along the way, so this is the online... Continue reading “Welcome to the “Course” Blog” ›
Setting up those Christmas/Holiday decorations Singing those Christmas/Holiday songs Buying all those special gifts Re-gifting those fruit cakes And best of all, just like Santa comes to all the malls, Wake the Library comes to ZSR. Every year around this time, ZSR staff pulls together in efforts to help the students through their final week... Continue reading “‘Tis the season….” ›
First rule of serving food at the Late Night Breakfast? Don’t leave your tongs under the heat lamp! (They get really hot!) On Monday, December 8th, I joined a group of Wake Forest staff and faculty as we served an all-you-can-eat breakfast in “The Pit” from 9 – 11:30 p.m. Entertainment was provided by various... Continue reading “The Late Night Breakfast – Fall 2008” ›
This month’s emerging technologies talk was requested from several people: a discussion of some of the similarities and differences between popular photosharing sites. We were working with a limited time span, so we covered the three top contenders: Flickr, Picasa, and Facebook. If you’re interested in more information about current photosharing site, ReadWriteWeb has a... Continue reading “Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, Oh My!” ›
On Monday, November 17th I attended the Writing Symposium panel discussion in Benson along with what appeared to be 75-100 faculty, staff, and students. The symposium was sponsored by the Department of English, the Teaching and Learning Center, and the Offices of the Dean and Provost. Tom McGohey of the English department gave a background... Continue reading “Writing Symposium – Ways of Writing for the 21st Century: The College Classroom and Beyond” ›