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“ZSR Delivers” will bring any circulating library material right to your office. The ZSR Library has purchased a golf cart to improve its delivery services to staff and faculty on the Reynolda Campus. “ZSR Delivers” will bring any circulating library material right to your office. Deliveries take place at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Monday... Continue reading “ZSR Delivers” ›
You may or may not have heard of the Toolkit, a new way of offering information literacy tutorials for our users. I’m really, really excited about this project, as I think it’s a way to meet our user’s needs in a way that fits with their expectations, potentially could help us to prepare better instructional... Continue reading “Introducing the ZSR Toolkit!” ›
If you haven’t read this week’s Old Gold and Black you will want to check out these two articles! One is an article about the Starbucks Grand Opening and the other is an editorial about innovation at ZSR! Reading them both just made my day! Continue reading “Kudos for ZSR in this week’s OGB” ›
L-R: Mike Lancaster, Director Lynn Sutton, Provost Tiefenthaler, President Hatch, Mark Williard An official ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 30 to celebrate the Summer 2008 renovations in Z. Smith Reynolds Library, including a new Starbucks, which opened September 22. James Alty, associate vice president for facilities and campus services, was the master... Continue reading “Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Celebrates Library Renovations” ›
Room 401, the room that used to house Current Periodicals on the 4th floor of the Reynolds Wing, has been repurposed into student group and individual study space. New furniture, complete with additional power capabilities, was delivered and installed on September 25. The new space adds 82 new seats, a combination of soft seating and... Continue reading “New Study Room Ready for Students!” ›
On Friday, September 26, I was summoned by the Circulation Staff to look at a returned book. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire had a cockroach smashed within it’s pages. I immediately photographed it (see a photo at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zsrlibrary/2890143658/), and took the steps necessary to have the book withdrawn. I was relieved when I... Continue reading “Bug in a book” ›
The ZSR library hit the bricks today to help support the Brian Piccolo cancer research fund. Eight hours of fun, walking, and Krispy Kreme doughnuts! Susan led the team off at 11am and currently Carol Cramer is braving the headwind and clouds to keep our baton heading around the quad! Continue reading “Library hits the bricks!” ›
Yesterday we held the inaugural Emerging Technologies Talk for the staff development committee. Our plan is to host a monthly discussion (two weeks off from the journal group) on new and emerging technologies. To get us off to a good start I though I’d go with something that people in the library would be interested... Continue reading “Biblio Social Software” ›
For the third year in a row, I was invited to the Presidents’ Leadership Conference, jointly sponsored by the President of the University and the Student Government President. Student leaders invite administrators whom they wish to engage in discussion about campus issues. The format is a weekend retreat, held this year at Smith Mountain Lake... Continue reading “Presidents’ Leadership Conference” ›
As many of you know, the ZSR library is beginning to look at open source alternatives to our current systems. A few of us have seen Vufind in action and have talked about Open ILS alternatives. This discussion is just starting and should yield some interesting results in the coming months. One thing that I have... Continue reading “Open Source Business Intelligence Software” ›