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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. Lauren Corbett Lauren Corbett, Director of Resource Services Tell us about what you do at ZSR Library? I have administrative responsibility for the budget, acquisition, and description of the library’s... Continue reading “5 Questions with Lauren Corbett” ›
As we bid farewell to 2023, let’s take a moment to review our year in reading. The following titles from our browsing collection represent books that were frequently checked out by members of our reading community in the past year. Additionally, a few ZSR librarians and staff members wanted to share their favorite reads from... Continue reading “2023: The Year in Reading” ›
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. Morgan Ritchie-Baum Morgan Ritchie-Baum, Business & Social Science Librarian Tell us about what you do at ZSR Library? As a member of the Research, Instruction, and Outreach Team – I... Continue reading “5+ Questions with Morgan Ritchie-Baum” ›
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. Craig Fansler Craig Fansler, Preservation Librarian Tell us about what you do at ZSR Library? I primarily protect our materials in Special Collections & Archives and the General Collection. I... Continue reading “5+ Questions With Craig Fansler” ›
Fifteen years ago today, on October 30, 2008, the first item added to Z. Smith Reynolds Library’s Digital Collections was an autographed note signed by César Franck, the renowned composer, within the Joseph E. Smith Music Manuscript Collection. This historic addition marked the beginning of our ever-growing digital collections that now encompasses a wide range... Continue reading “15 Years of Digital Collections” ›
On Friday, October 27th, 2023, the ZSR Library hosted a Halloween-themed Game Night in the ZSR Library! More than 70 students attended this collaboration between WFU eSports, the Board Game Club, Rook and Bishop, and the ZSR Ambassadors included video and board games, a tarot card reader, an origami table, and a book hunt led... Continue reading “Halloween Game Night @ ZSR – Fall 2023” ›
Not the ZSR You Remember Tours & SCA Open House ZSR Library welcomed alumni, family and friends for a tour of the newest places and spaces within the library. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of LIB 100 (our credit-bearing information literacy course), ZSR librarians served 200 Dewey’s cake squares. Special Collections & Archives (SCA) hosted... Continue reading “ZSR Library Homecoming 2023 Wrap-Up” ›
The SPIE Digital Collections (http://spiedigitallibrary.org ) trial will run through December 31, 2023. The trial includes access to the world’s largest collection of optics and photonics applied research: 520,000+ proceedings papers from SPIE conferences 52,000+ presentation recording videos of research presented at SPIE conferences 41,000+ journal papers from 14 SPIE journals 485+ eBooks NOTE: Access... Continue reading “SPIE Digital Collection Trial Running till December 31, 2023” ›
On Thursday, Oct 12th, from 11 am-3 pm, the ZSR Library hosted our annual Graduate Student Research Retreat in ZSR 665! Eight graduate students attended sessions on time management, copyright, addressing writer’s block, and Zotero! You can see photos here! Thanks to the ZSR Library, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate... Continue reading “Graduate Student Research Retreat – Fall 2023” ›
Back in August, ZSR hosted a Humans v Zombies (HvZ) event for the pre-orientation camps, and it was such a success we decided to bring back HvZ to the whole campus after a four-year hiatus due to COVID! On Friday, October 6th, 96 students gathered in the ZSR Library between 7-8:30 PM to play two... Continue reading “Humans v Zombies Returns to the ZSR Library!” ›