The ZSR Library Blog
On Wednesday afternoon Chris Burris, Elise Anderson and I worked the phones at the WFDD pledge drive. We took contributor’s pledges and provided them with information about the thank-you gifts that are available at various donation levels. During our 2.5 hours at the studio, we collected $7,394 in pledges for our NPR station. Why so... Continue reading “ZSR Supports WFDD’s Pledge Drive” ›
Like the rest of the campus community, ZSR Library prepared a departmental strategic plan last year. Please read our bold and aspirational vision and let us know if you agree that ten years hence, ZSR will be a virtual and physical space for both students and scholars, rich in resources and alive with learning. Continue reading “ZSR Strategic Plan Released” ›
The ZSR Library has just completed an audit to discover additional ways we can protect our users’ privacy. We agree with the American Library Association that privacy is essential to the exercise of free speech, free thought, and free expression.Lack of privacy and confidentiality chills users’ choices, thereby suppressing access to ideas.We are considering changes... Continue reading “We Care About Your Privacy” ›
On Friday, September 28th, seven members of the ZSR staff, Giz Womack, Mary Horton, Lauren Pressley, Chris Burris, Kaeley McMahan, Leslie McCall, and Mary Scanlon, visited the NCSU Learning Commons in the D. H. Hill Library. The website contains detailed information about the services offered by the Commons as well as the blog for the... Continue reading “ZSR Staff Development Field Trip to the NCSU Learning Commons” ›
On Friday, September 21st from 7-11pm, the Z. Smith Reynolds Library hosted its fifth Get Game@ZSR event. This open video game night drew a good crowd of 32 students, along with five University staff and guests. Once again, we held the event in the atrium. We had five screens and projectors in the atrium, one... Continue reading “Get Game @ ZSR-The Fifth Time is the Charm” ›
On Tuesday, September 17th, Mike Causey, an organic farmer with Lodge Dodge Farm, spoke to several staff members of the library about organic farming as sustainable agriculture. The talk was hosted by the Staff Development Committee. Mr. Causey discussed how he came to be an organic farmer and about the products that he grows and... Continue reading “Staff Development Talk: Organic Farming Can Feed the World” ›
Z. Smith Reynolds Library and the Professional Center Library were invited to manage the WFU Lenovo Friends & Family program for this campus. By using a WFU specific portal to Lenovo products, the Wake Forest Community (and their freinds and family) can get discounts on its entire product line, including ThinkPad notebooks. To take advantage... Continue reading “Lenovo Friends & Family Program to Benefit Reynolda Campus Libraries” ›
Historic Images of Forsyth County Available Online Digital Forsyth is a collaborative digitization project by Wake Forest University’s Z. Smith Reynolds Library and Coy C. Carpenter Medical Library, the Forsyth County Public Library and Winston-Salem State University’s C.G. O’Kelly Library to preserve Forsyth County’s photographic history and to make it more accessible by providing online... Continue reading “Digital Forsyth” ›
Early on Saturday, August 25th, members of the ZSR staff, along with the ITGs, RTAs, and some members of the IS staff, all met in Brendle Recital Hall for the third annual Technology@WFU. Since 2005, when “ThinkPad Orientation” morphed into “Technology@WFU” in order to better meet the needs of a freshman orientation schedule that had... Continue reading “Technology@WFU 2007” ›
The forerunner of todays comic books and graphic novels, the dime novel explored themes of adventure. During the Civil War, Dime Novels were perhaps the most popular form of reading for soldiers on both sides. The ZSR Library has an extensive Dime Novel collection in the Microtext Department that is well worth exploring. Continue reading “Dime Novels exhibit” ›