During June 2016

Inside ZSR

Kyle’s instruction conference roundup: Three birds with one stone

If you’ve ever considered attending three conferences in three different states in the same week, you’d better be prepared to be inundated with new ideas, new contacts, and challenges to your practice. Here, I’ll attempt to find the overarching themes from my experiences at LOEX in Pittsburgh, The Innovative Library Classroom conference (TILC) at Radford... more

Large Project Management at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute

Last week I was grateful to attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria in beautiful British Columbia with support from both ZSR and Wake Forest’s Humanities Institute. I took a week-long course in project management, specifically tailored to digital humanities, where projects are often protean and power dynamics among team members... more

My trip to ALADN

Last week Stephen Edwards and I attended the annual ALADN Conference in Boston. ALADN stands for Academic Library Advancement and Development Network and it was the first time either of us have attended one of their meetings. The primary audience is library development and communication staff, but many deans and library leaders attend as well.... more

3rd Annual Paraprofessional Conference – TALA 2016

May 18, 2016 at Wake Forest University Here is a compilation of comments from attendees of the 2016 TALA conference: I had a great experience attending the TALA Conference here at ZSR on May 18th. I found one session in particular very useful and I will share some notes from that session. I attended the... more