Special Collections & Archives

The Z. Smith Reynolds Library Access services department provides access for students, faculty, staff, and other patrons to the library building and its collections. This collection contains a brochure, a guidebook, hallway bench plaques, interlibrary loan postage, memorial programs, and staff information.

Z. Smith Reynolds Library's Digital Initiative and Scholarly Communication department addresses the digital needs of the library including digitization of materials, assisting students with publishing materials, and copyright issues. This collection includes the mission statement, circa 2016.

Ethel Taylor Crittenden was Librarian, Heck-Williams Library, Wake Forest College, from 1928-1956, and Director of the Baptist Historical Collection and Friends of the Library, 1946-1952. This collection documents Ethel Crittendon's professional interests and work. Materials included in the collection are mostly correspondence, mixed in with related items; other materials types include book lists and orders, budget materials, collections documentation, planning materials, and reports.

Rhoda K. Channing worked as the Director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University from 1989 to 2003. Materials in this collection include annual reports, memorandums, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, planning materials, budgets, and correspondences.

This collection includes academic department files, annual reports, correspondence, subject files, literary productions, library and campus memoranda, memorials, personnel files, reports, and statistics from Merrill Gray Berthrong's term as Director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library (1964-89.)Correspondents include William C. Archie, Terry Sanford, James R. Scales, Harold W. Tribble, Irving E. Carlyle, Jasper L. Memory, and Nancy Susan Reynolds.

The Z. Smith Reynolds Library is the main library for Wake Forest University and is located on its Reynolda Campus in Winston-Salem, N.C. The library regularly holds events and exhibits to promote the library, its holdings, and the work of faculty, staff and students. This collection documents events and exhibits from 1989-2017.

The Librarians' Assembly of Wake Forest University's Z. Smith Reynolds Library consists of librarians that have been appointed to library faculty, visiting library faculty, and teaching positions. The materials in this collection include survey results and meeting materials.

Z. Smith Reynolds Library is home to a number of staff and faculty committees. This collection includes materials such as newsletters, bylaws, event programs, minutes, promotional materials, fliers, memorandums, and reports.

Z. Smith Reynolds Library's Library Partners Press is a digital imprint of Wake Forest University specializing in niche non-ficition. This collection includes a an event program, a postcard, and an email invitation.

WFU's North Carolina Baptist Historical Collection (NCBHC) is a repository of records by and about Baptist churches, associations, groups, and people. Resources include books and publications, church records, association minutes, and other items. This collection documents the work of Z. Smith Reynolds Library's NCBHC department. Materials include annual reports, Baptist church anniversary lists, and materials, holdings statistics, correspondence, financial materials, department forms, meeting materials, memorandums, presentation notes, project proposals, professional association materials, publications, speech notes, reports, subject files, and survey questionnaires.

Lynn Sutton served as the director, and later the dean, of Wake Forest University's Z. Smith Reynold's Library from 2004 to 2015. This collection spans from 1995-2017 and includes administrative materials pertaining to Sutton's work.

Timothy D. Pyatt became Dean of Z. Smith Reynolds Library in 2015, replacing Lynn Sutton. This collection documents library administration includes annual reports, promotional materials, and other related items.

The Z Smith Reynold's Library Periodicals Department deals with physical, and now electronic, periodicals. This collection contains correspondence and notes related to acquiring and maintaining periodical issues.

Z. Smith Reynolds Library's Rare Books and Manuscripts Department is a predecessor of the Library's Special Collections and Archives. This collection includes event programs, brochures, written materials, and items related to a Friends of the Library group.

The Z. Smith Reynolds Library's Research and Instruction department includes research support services, such as subject specific librarians, and library instruction. This collection includes course proposals and statistics, dated 1956-2003.

This collection includes zines from the LIB 100 course taught in 2017. Z. Smith Reynolds Library offers many sections of LIB 100 (Academic Research & Information Issues) each semester, taught by teaching and research librarians.

Zine Fest! was an event held at Z. Smith Reynolds Library's Special Collections and Archives on April 24, 2026. It consisted of two sessions: one to display student-created zines, and one about zine pedagogy intended for faculty and staff. This collection consists of zines created for the two sessions of the Zine Fest! event.

Z. Smith Reynolds Library's Resource Services Department acquires and organizes the physical and digital materials of the library. This collection includes policies, cataloging manuals, book lists, shared resources agreements, and administrative files.

Special Collections and Archives in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library maintains the University Archives, manuscript collections, a rare books collection, and the North Carolina Baptist Historical Collection. Materials include annual reports, consultant reports, grant documentation and planning files, newspaper clippings, exhibit and related items, announcements, and promotional items.

Z. Smith Reynolds Library's Employee Association promotes employee and library welfare by organizing activities. This collection includes newspaper clippings, campaign materials, and minutes, dated 1997-2017.

Z. Smith Reynolds Library's Technology department oversees public computers, printers, and multimedia rental as well as providing instrumental support the the increasingly digital work of all library departments. This collection includes includes Pre-College Experience program schedules and a printout from the library website.

Zion Hill Baptist Church is located in Zirconia, North Carolina and was founded in 1916. This collection contains materials primarily about individuals involved with starting the church and meeting minutes.

Zon Roppe Robinson was a Wake Forest alumnus (Class of 1933), student secretary of religious organizations at Wake Forest, and debate team coach.