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2nd Annual Senior Showcase Honors Five Worthy Projects

Nate Plageman (History), Beth Ann Williams, Susan Borwick (Music), Anna Walker, Bruce King (Chemistry), Allison Faig, David Tokarz, Carey Carpenter, Claudia Ospina (Romance Languages) On April 26, ZSR held its second annual Senior Showcase, a program honoring exemplary senior research theses and projects completed by Wake Forest University undergraduates. Five outstanding students presented their research... Continue reading “2nd Annual Senior Showcase Honors Five Worthy Projects”

Shifting Spaces: Off-Site Storage, Auditorium and DVD Center

For months, ZSR staff have been strategically moving lower-use journals to a new, state-of-the-art, off-site storage building. The facility, located on 30th Street just past the Wake Forest Baseball Park, will hold approximately 200,000 volumes. The first stage of the relocation project involved about 100,000 journal volumes formerly housed in a leased commercial space. As... Continue reading “Shifting Spaces: Off-Site Storage, Auditorium and DVD Center”

Upcoming Technology Workshops

The library will host workshops this summer on: Using iPads: A Panel Discussion E-books for Scholarly and Popular Use: A Panel Discussion Video Editing 101 and Video Editing 201 SMART Boards™ at WFU Google Docs and Sites for Collaboration Zotero for Managing your Citations Visit the PDC website for more information on these and other... Continue reading “Upcoming Technology Workshops”

Interlibrary Loan Receives STARS Rating!

The ZSR Interlibrary Loan (ILL) department has achieved the RUSA “STARS” rating. The Reference and User Service Association (RUSA) is part of American Library Association, and the Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS) is one of RUSA’s sections. The STARS rating results from a Resource Sharing Best Practices Survey conducted last year by... Continue reading “Interlibrary Loan Receives STARS Rating!”

Three New Student Murals Decorate ZSR

If you use the east entrance to ZSR, you may have seen three new student murals. Students in ART 211: Intermediate Drawing (Instructor: Alix Hitchcock) executed the murals in fall 2010. These new works join the two murals from the previous year, when ZSR held a student contest. The three new murals are: Untitled by... Continue reading “Three New Student Murals Decorate ZSR”

ZSR Library Wins National Award for Excellence

The Z. Smith Reynolds Library has won the 2011 ACRL “Excellence in Academic Libraries” award in the university category! The Association of College and Research Libraries gives this prize annually to acknowledge the exemplary accomplishments of librarians and library staff working together to further the educational mission of the institution. ACRL Executive Director Mary Ellen... Continue reading “ZSR Library Wins National Award for Excellence”

Off-Site Storage Building Opens

On November 29, 2010, the ZSR Library received the keys to the long-awaited off-site storage building, which is located on 30th Street just beyond the baseball stadium. After a week of staff training, work began on the monumental task of accessioning almost 200,000 volumes by June 2011. First, staff will transfer items that were formerly... Continue reading “Off-Site Storage Building Opens”

Nominate Outstanding Theses for the Senior Showcase

From the 2010 Senior Showcase: (L to R) Professor Paul Escott, Honoree Anna Nicodemus, Honoree Malloy Durr, Professor Helga Welsh, Professor Kendall Tarte, Honoree Courtney Vris ZSR will sponsor the second annual “Senior Showcase” to recognize outstanding senior thesis research and senior projects completed by Wake Forest undergraduates. Last year’s pilot showcase honored three seniors.... Continue reading “Nominate Outstanding Theses for the Senior Showcase”

Spring 2011 Library Lecture Series

Mustafa Abdullah, 2010 WFU graduate and recipient of the 2010 MLK Building the Dream Award, spoke in January on his work as a community organizer promoting Dr. King’s dream of social justice. Values, Education and Governance in Nigeria: How Would the Country Get the Right Balance? Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 3 p.m. Room 204, ZSR... Continue reading “Spring 2011 Library Lecture Series”

Upcoming Technology Workshops

The library will host workshops this spring on: Audience response systems (“Clickers“) Prezi, an online presentation application Zotero, a basic, open-source citation manager Using Google Docs and Google Sites for Collaboration View these and other events! Additionally, find supporting documentation for Zotero, EndNote, Clickers and SMARTTM Boards, as well as many other applications, on the... Continue reading “Upcoming Technology Workshops”