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Over the years, the Information Technology Team (aka “Tech Team”) has held fall retreats to set aside time to plan the upcoming year and reflect on the past year’s efforts. Our goal is to have an annual event away from the library, so we have quality uninterrupted time to team build and conduct planning activities.... Continue reading “Tech Team’s 2007 Retreat” ›
ZSR Library will launch its fall 2007 lecture series with an observance of “Banned Books Week.” Banned Books Week is a nationwide, annual event to promote free expression that is sponsored by libraries, booksellers, publishers and writers. Charles Sligh, visiting assistant professor of English, and Jessica Richard, assistant professor of English, will read passages from... Continue reading “Fall 2007 Library Lecture Series” ›
Faculty Technology Training Classes this semester range from technology sessions on Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Microsoft OneNote to training classes on EndNote, MovieMaker and creating your own WFU Home Page. In addition to classes, ZSR Library also offers Tech Talks on a variety of emerging technologies. Register online for these and other faculty classes. Continue reading “Faculty Technology Training Classes” ›
John S. Walker, who volunteered at ZSR from 2000-2003 in Preservation and passed away in 2005, has donated his books on Japan to the Z. Smith Reynolds Library. A few weeks back, I drove to his home and picked up many boxes of books. Charles Bombeld helped sort through and accept approximately 80 of these... Continue reading “John Walker Gift Books” ›
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” ›