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Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology launched its Online Artifact Database (www.wfu.edu/moa/database) at a reception on September 9, 2008. Erik Mitchell and I attended this event. Museum Director, Stephen Whittington informed guests that the digitization of its collections and the production of an online database was a project four years in the making. The Museum... Continue reading “WFU’s Museum of Anthropology Artifact Database” ›
Yesterday for our LIB210: Social Science Research Sources and Strategies class, Bobbie, Carolyn and I planned a variation on the library tour. We divided our students up into three groups and sent them to different areas of the library. They had three questions to ask: What resources or services would a WFU student find here?... Continue reading “LIB210 Gets Familiar with ZSR” ›
Join the ZSR Library and the Resident Technical Advisers (RTAs) as they host a video game night in the Library atrium on Friday, September 12th from 7pm-11pm. Register in advance by emailing itc@wfu.edu to reserve a space for game play or drop by the event to watch the games and tournament and enjoy some pizza! Continue reading “Get Game@ZSR” ›
During the last week of September, ZSR Library will host events surrounding the reading of the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The book is also being read along with the Forsyth County Public Library and their Big Read Program. This is a very provocative book, especially for libraries, because the story is about a... Continue reading “Fahrenheit 451/ The Big Read exhibit” ›
You might have heard recently that there’s a new research guide format that the reference folks have been learning to use. It’s called LibGuides, and allows for users to create research guides that take advantage of a number of web 2.0 tools. We’re still learning, but you can see some of the examples here. Not... Continue reading “Introducing LibGuides!” ›
To create the Religious Intolerance project, Dr. Neal received a grant from the Chambers Family Fund for Entrepreneurship and a grant from the Wake Forest University Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts.The class, which met Spring Semester, 2008, is working on a project entitled: “Portraits of Hate, Lessons of Hope:Examining Religious Intolerance in America.”I met... Continue reading “Religious Intolerance Exhibit” ›
It is with much joy that the ZSR library shipped the first set of our orphaned microfim off to a new home today. In recent years the library was able to replace these collections with online versions of the material and we were excited to learn of a library last week who was interested in... Continue reading “Orphaned microfilm finds new home” ›
Today some of the RITS team members, Kevin, Kaeley, Sarah, and I, traveled to UNC-G to meet with reference librarians interested in technology at Jackson Library. It was a good meeting with a turnout of about 12 library staff members between UNCG and WFU. The conversation was casual, with short demonstrations of some of the... Continue reading “A Visit With UNCG” ›
For the past three years, an ongoing weeding project has been taking place in ZSR Library’s Government Documents Department. As more resources go online, efforts are being made to convert to electronic and reclaim much needed shelf space by removing out-of-date and out-of-scope materials. We work with the Regional Depository at UNC to ensure that... Continue reading “Government Documents/Microtext Consolidation Project” ›
Today was the final competition for the 2008 WFU Staff Summer Olympics. The challenge was a relay: Prentice and Mary Beth formed a human wheelbarrow (Prentice started out holding up Mary Beth as she walked on her hands, but they switched off midway). Then, when they arrive at the pie table, Prentice had to eat... Continue reading “Zephyrs Take Silver in the 2008 Summer Olympics” ›