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ZSR Library just bought three additional Archives Unbound collections. Each product contains small, targeted collections of primary-source documents. Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s Indian Trade in the Southeastern Spanish Borderlands: Papers of Panton, Leslie and Company Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life Artemis Primary Sources is a new way to search... Continue reading “Database News, May 2014” ›
Welcome to the Business Information Commons at Farrell Hall! Since July 1, 2013, the Z. Smith Reynolds Library has become the source of library operations and services to the combined School of Business. The Info Commons is a digital library of the future, with no traditional print books or journals. However, the entire collection of... Continue reading “Welcome!” ›
Contact Mary Scanlon 758-4303 scanlomg@wfu.edu 251C Farrell Hall Mary G. Scanlon is the Research and Instruction Librarian for Business & Economics at Wake Forest University. She earned her M.B.A at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and her M.L.I.S at Kent State University. Before coming to Wake Forest, she held a... Continue reading “Meet Mary Scanlon” ›
Contact Bob Hebert 758-4567 hebertb@wfu.edu 251F Farrell Hall Bob Hebert has been assisting Wake Forest graduate business students and faculty with their research since arriving at the University in October 1992. Until the opening of Farrell Hall, Bob worked in the Professional Center Library for Law & Management in the Worrell Professional Center. Bob is... Continue reading “Meet Bob Hebert” ›
The Business Information Commons is both the physical and the virtual home of business information in Farrell Hall. The physical space provides a comfortable, library-like atmosphere for individual study. The website of the Info Commons provides access to numerous business databases and several special services. The Info Commons is also home to business librarians Mary... Continue reading “Library Resources and Services for Business Faculty and Students” ›
Moving my office to Farrell Hall has had many benefits, but chief among them has been the casual interactions I now have with students and faculty due to proximity. The increased frequency of such meetings has led to a corresponding increase in more formal interactions. I would like to highlight three projects I worked on... Continue reading “Supporting Student Research in the WFU School of Business” ›
During the spring semester, 15 second-year MBA students are participating in a book club led by Professor of Management Ram Baliga. Professor Baliga and the students are using Kindle Fire tablet computers, each loaded with copies of eight notable, current business books selected by Professor Baliga. The ZSR Library has loaned the Kindles and Kindle... Continue reading “MBA Students Use ZSR Library Kindles for Spring Book Club” ›
In February, the Z. Smith Reynolds Library will offer a free, open, online course called ZSRx: Digital Publishing. This informal, three-week course will explore the “past, present and future perfect tenses” of e-books, self-publishing and the digital publishing landscape. Anyone interested in the intersection of books, technology and commerce will surely find this a fascinating... Continue reading “ZSRx Offers Online Course on Digital Publishing” ›
A conceptual drawing of enhanced study and collaboration spaces A bold concept for the future of ZSR was unveiled at last semester’s launch of Wake Will, the University-wide capital campaign. As the busiest academic building and one of the original campus structures, ZSR Library is showing its age. Upgrading study rooms, expanding classrooms and designing... Continue reading “Planning for the Future of the ZSR Building” ›
For the past two years, the ZSR Library has offered two class packs of tablets, each consisting of five Apple iPads. These iPads have already been successfully used for a variety of projects, often outside of the classroom. The library just added a third class pack of 20 Kindle Fire HDs. These Kindles use “whispercast”... Continue reading “Tablet Class Packs” ›