The ZSR Library Blog
Just to update everyone on the merger of Reference and Current Periodicals. Over Spring Break I started to shift the Reference collection to take advantage of the space we have made with relocations and weeding. We are consolidating our collection much more than in the past and are not leaving an enormous amount of room... Continue reading “Reference Shifting Has Begun” ›
This week I went to the North Carolina Association of Educational Communication and Technology Conference in Concord, NC. I wrote about the sessions I went to on our professional development blog. While I was only able to spend the day, I found the conference very interesting & was really amazed at how refreshing seeing some... Continue reading “Erik learns more about k-12 education” ›
Paintings of wild flowers made by Mary V. Walcott in 1925. The book, North American Wild Flowers, printed by the Smithsonian Institution in 1925, contains paintings made by Mary Vaux Walcott. These paintings are life-size and are housed in Rare Books in a 5-volume folio. Continue reading “North American Wild Flowers exhibit” ›
Earth Day is April 22. Earth Day is April 22, 2008. An exhibit was created to feature books and DVD’s in the ZSR Library collection. Continue reading “Earth Day Exhibit” ›
Wake Forest University will be having a planned outage of phone service from Friday, March 8 at 8pm until Monday, March 10 at 8am. During this time, the library’s usual phone service will be interrupted, and voice mail will not be possible. If you need to reach the library during that time, please note: For... Continue reading “Phone Outage, March 8-10” ›
While at the First-Year Experience Conference (blog post, podcast), I heard several schools talk about their summer reading programs for freshmen. One book came up at several of these sessions, Tracy Kidder’s “Mountains Beyond Mountains.” It is the story of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man working to stamp out diseases like Multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis while... Continue reading “Book Review – “Mountains Beyond Mountains” by Tracy Kidder” ›
While traveling to the First-Year Experience conference (see my postings on the ZSR Professional Development Blog) I read Robin Wasserman’s book “Lust.” It is the first in a series of books, each based on one of the seven deadly sins. The characters are all seniors in high school living in the fictional town of Grace.... Continue reading “Book Review – Robin Wasserman’s “Lust”” ›
A BibID is a unique identifier for each bibliographic record in the catalog. BibIDs have several nifty uses even for people who never use the back end of Voyager. Links to catalog records You can make a short and persistent link to a specific record in the OPAC by using this syntax: http://catalog.zsr.wfu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=123456 In this... Continue reading “Did you know about BibIDs?” ›
To reserve a study room, go to Study Room Reservations. ZSR has implemented a study room reservation system that is completely online to allow students to reserve one of its 7 study rooms. Click on the “Study Rooms” link from the ZSR homepage or bookmark the link. Any currently registered student can choose to request... Continue reading “Need a study room? Reserve Online!” ›
In response to student requests, starting tomorrow, February 17, 2008, ZSR Library is moving to a open 24/5 schedule. This means that each week, the library will open at 10 am on Sunday, and stay open until 7:00 pm on Friday evenings, during the spring and fall semesters. Saturday hours will remain the same as... Continue reading “ZSR Library Goes 24/5” ›