Re-Introducing LIB100 The Z Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University has been offering iterations of the credit-bearing library research introductory class LIB 100 for over two decades. For the 2025-26 academic year, we filled 22 sections of LIB100 courses with total enrollment around 317 students. This number does not include our other LIB courses... Continue reading “Not the LIB100 You Remember: How AI Has (and Hasn’t) Changed LIB100 ” ›
If you’ve ever wanted to sharpen your finance skills or add a recognized business credential to your resume, we have some exciting news: WFU students, staff, and faculty now have remote access to Bloomberg certifications through Bloomberg for Education — and you can complete them from anywhere, at no cost to you. What Certifications Are... Continue reading “New at ZSR – Access Bloomberg Certificates From Anywhere” ›
The ZSR Employee Association (EA) was developed to promote the welfare of ZSR employees and the library as well as to provide organization for employee activities – over 50 years ago! For fun you can check out the Constitution and Bylaws from 1972. In the last two years, the EA Fund has supported nine employees... Continue reading “Employee Association Benevolence Shared with the Chaplain’s Office” ›
Join us for an in-depth and up-close look at colonial and revolutionary era maps! This event will include a tour of the Special Collections and Archives exhibit, Reading the Revolution: Print Culture in 18th Century America, along with additional cartographic materials from the 17th and 18th centuries. Exhibit curator and Special Collections Librarian Megan Mulder... Continue reading “Mapping the Revolution: Cartography and Colonialism in 18th century North America” ›
The North Carolina Baptist Historical Collection had another productive year for 2025. Among its activities were the following: Access: Marcia Phillips, our PT Metadata Technician (former member of the Baptist State Convention of NC History Committee/Coordinator of the Davie Co. Public Library Martin-Wall Local History Room) reviewed and updated 1,598 metadata records for the CLIR-funded... Continue reading “North Carolina Baptist Historical Collection, Annual Report (2025)” ›
On Friday, April 24th, the campus community came together to explore the intersection of independent publishing, student agency, and radical pedagogy in the two part event “Wake Up To Zines.” Sponsored by the Dr. Samuel T. Gladding Fund, which vitalizes humanities programming at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, and the Program for Leadership and Character’s... Continue reading “Wake Up to Zines: Celebrating Zines & Zine Pedagogy at Wake Forest – A Recap!” ›
Over the past several months, the ZSR AI Engagement Task Force has been working through a question that almost every academic library is sitting with right now: how do we want to engage with artificial intelligence in a way that is honest about what these tools are, faithful to our values, and useful to the... Continue reading “Starting with Values: Introducing Our AI Engagement Framework” ›
The Wake Forest University Commemoration of the Enslaved was held last week outside of Wait Chapel. The program included prayers, music, a reading of the names of those who were enslaved, and a solemn acknowledgment of those whose names remain unknown. Now in its eighth year, this meaningful event brought together more than 200 students,... Continue reading “Commemoration of the Enslaved, 2026” ›
The beloved home of George Washington almost slipped away from American tradition when the death of his great nephew who had inherited the farm and house at Mount Vernon left a desperate widow, Jane Washington, trying to sell the first presidential home in our country’s history. It was in derelict condition and in dire need... Continue reading “George Washington’s Mount Vernon, a Women’s Crusade and the Biblical Recorder” ›
