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Join ZSR Library, Board Game Club, Esports Association, Rook & Bishop, and World Tea Association for an evening of Halloween fun! In addition to games and tea tastings from our partnering student organizations, the ZSR Ambassadors are hosting a costume contest & trick or treating in the stacks! There will be snacks, tarot card readings,... Continue reading “Halloween Game Night 2025” ›
Stop by our table at the ZSR Library from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm on Oct. 6th for snacks, giveaways, and more! It is a great chance to learn more about the amazing library services and resources that we offer. Academic Resources Awareness Week (ARAW) is an annual event every fall semester. The goal of... Continue reading “Academic Resources Awareness Week @ ZSR” ›
Richard Murdoch, Liz (Parish) Beasley ’79 and Lyn Tribble ’80 printing in Anne Yeats Cuala Press Studio, Dublin,Ireland Michael Thomas ’79 who also printed with Richard Murdoch in Dublin In November, 2024, our former colleague, Stephanie Bennett, left me a Winston Salem Twin City Sentinel article (entitled: WFU’s Rare Book Librarian Prints Books at Irish... Continue reading “Interview with Liz Beasley ’79: Printing in Ireland with Richard Murdoch and 2 other WFU Students” ›
Since the Fall Break of 2017, the ZSR Library has hosted a workshop series for graduate students. The idea came from a presentation panel at ACRL 2017 in Baltimore, where Kennesaw University described a fall break graduate student “boot camp.” In 2020, thanks to a suggestion by one of our presenters, we rebranded the program... Continue reading “ZSR Graduate Student Research Retreat Workshops for Fall 2025” ›
Welcome back to another installment of 5 Questions! If you would like to choose 5 Questions yourself, feel free to choose 5 from this form. Sam Sfirri, Collections Archivist Tell us about what you do at ZSR Library? I work as part of the Special Collections & Archives (SCA) team to make our archival collections... Continue reading “5 Questions with Sam Sfirri” ›
Join us for a 30-minute guided tour of ZSR Library, where you’ll discover the incredible resources, services, and study spaces designed to support student success. Whether you’re new to ZSR or curious about what the library has to offer, this tour is the perfect introduction. Tours will depart from the main entrance of ZSR Library... Continue reading “Family Weekend Tours 2025” ›
After five long years – one pandemic, a brief absence, and 18 finding aids – I have completed processing the Wake Forest University Department of Athletics archival collections! Refresher: In 2020, the department of athletics announced the vacating of several offices from a building on Deacon Boulevard that has since been demolished. Special Collections and... Continue reading “Archiving Athletics: My Journey to the Finish Line” ›
Accessing the full text of articles has gotten easier! ZSR recently added a service called LibKey that operates behind the scenes to provide reliable links to scholarly journal articles with fewer clicks.LibKey works with data from ZSR’s thousands of journal subscriptions as well as the Unpaywall open access database to quickly and seamlessly link users... Continue reading “Introducing LibKey: Finding Full Text Just Got Easier” ›
This blog post was written by Special Collections & Archives volunteer Shannon Bothwell. One of the best features about archival materials is their ability to surprise. Stereotypically, archives consist of the papers of prominent men. But archived items from the 20th and 21st centuries include much more than paper; audio recordings, emails and digital documents,... Continue reading “Trailblazing Wake Forest Women Tell Their Stories Through Archives” ›
