The ZSR Library Blog
The ZSR Library has entered a year-long trial of Consensus through April of 2027. Consensus is an AI-powered search engine that instantly finds, analyzes, and summarizes peer-reviewed research. Consensus currently searches 250+ million peer-reviewed academic papers, pre-prints, and conference proceedings. Its corpus includes articles indexed in Semantic Scholar, Open Alex, ArXiv, PubMed, CrossRef, and ORCID... Continue reading “Consensus Trial through ZSR” ›
Wayne Oates is well known in Christian evangelical circles as the pioneer in Christian Psychology and the field of Christian Counseling. He explored how the study of human psychology fit into historic Christian theology and authored multiple books in this field now commanded by best selling authors like Gary Chapman (also once a Wake Forest... Continue reading “Wayne Oates, Christian Psychology and World War II” ›
Since completing the Richard M. Burr Congressional Collection (check my previous blog posts for more information about that project) I have been hard at work on the many new accessions that SCA has accumulated throughout 2025. Today, I present to you a roundup of some of these brand new accessions, all available for research in... Continue reading “New Accessions Roundup” ›
Completed books Student working I’ve taught quite a few bookbinding classes in LiB260. through the years, I’ve fine tuned the class after each one ends to meet students needs and abilities so they have a good experience. In the beginning, we used 2 class sessions to sew up a text block, make a case for... Continue reading “Bookbinding in LIB260 – History of Material Texts” ›
This blog post was written by Special Collections & Archives Student Assistant Anne Jones ’26. Since the fall of 2025, Meg Campbell (’25) and I (Anne Jones) have been editing, organizing, and updating the “Buildings & Roads of Wake Forest University” guide. The original project was made by former student employee John Walsh (’14) who... Continue reading “Updating Buildings & Roads” ›
On Thursday, March 19, 2026, faculty, staff, and guests gathered in ZSR Library to celebrate faculty authors and artists from across the Reynolda campus who published books or produced creative works in 2025. This was the first time that ZSR had hosted an event like this since 2019, and we were excited to bring it... Continue reading “Recap: 2026 Faculty Authors & Artists Celebration” ›
On Friday, April 24th join us for a day celebrating creativity and zines! Whether you are a student looking to win prizes or a faculty/staff member looking to to learn more about zines, we have an event for you. We are excited to host two events: Zine Fest! When: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Where:... Continue reading “Wake Up to Zines: Celebrating Zines & Zine Pedagogy at Wake Forest” ›
A special shoutout and thank you to our donors for the Deacs Day of Giving, who contributed nearly $1700 to Special Collections & Archives: Welborn Alexander Virginia Charest Barry & Margaret Clendenin Jeffrey Paul Hogg Amanda Jones Timothy Pitman Joel Rivera Kevin Sutton Mary Tribble Steven Wright Their gift (and yours, it’s never too late)... Continue reading “SCA Deacs Day of Giving–March 19, 2026” ›
After a 6-year hiatus, the ABCs of Special Collections series has returned! This blog post was written by my student employee Taylor McGrew, a senior double majoring in Philosophy and Politics & International Affairs. What started as a simple writing project for Taylor turned into processing her very first collection from start to finish, all... Continue reading “ABCs of Special Collections: N is for…” ›