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Gretchen Edwards (’10) As in the past, ZSR offers blogs, wikis, consulting and workshops for WFU community members. Over the summer, several librarians joined the campus Cisco WebEx™ pilot. This fall, ZSR welcomes the WFU Cisco Fellow: Gretchen Edwards (’10). Gretchen will spend the next year on Cisco-related projects as well as working with faculty... Continue reading “Educational Technology Update” ›
The library will host workshops this fall on: Audience response systems ("clickers") The new devices available for check-out Zotero, a basic, open-source citation manager, and EndNote, an advanced citation manager. View these and other events! Additionally, find supporting documentation for Zotero, EndNote and clickers on the library website. Continue reading “Upcoming Technology Workshops” ›
In the 2009-2010 academic year, library faculty worked with more students on research than ever before. Librarians conducted 221 library instruction sessions for over 4000 students, an increase of 55% over the previous year. In addition, library faculty worked one-on-one with 686 students in personal research sessions, an increase of 63%. The enrollment in LIB100... Continue reading “Library Instruction Soars” ›
As explained in the previous issue, the library will move older journal volumes to the off-site storage facility, which is scheduled to open this winter. In preparation for the opening, some journals are already being boxed and bear the location “Interim Storage” in the catalog. Please use the request form if you need an article... Continue reading “Journals Volumes Moving to Off-Site Storage” ›
Electronic Journal Backfiles The ZSR Library recently bought online access to older volumes of over 1,300 electronic journals in ScienceDirect and SpringerLink. The content spans the curriculum and includes such leading titles as Tetrahedron, Animal Behaviour and World Development. While many of the journals were already available online from the current issue back to the... Continue reading “Database News” ›
A decade ago, the Z Smith Reynolds Library began sending older, lesser-used print journal volumes to off-site storage. In 2000, the first shipments contained volumes older than 1990. Since then, the serials landscape has changed substantially. A high percentage of the journals acquired by ZSR are now electronic, many of them electronic-only. More and more... Continue reading “Plans to Begin Moving Additional ZSR Journal Volumes to Off-Site Storage” ›
L to R: Anna Nicodemus, Mallory Durr, Courtney Vris On Tuesday, April 20, the Z. Smith Reynolds Library hosted the inaugural Senior Showcase, an event honoring exemplary research completed by Wake Forest College undergraduates. Students shared their thesis research in a three-part lecture in the Allen Mandelbaum Reading Room. The 2010 honorees were: Anna Nicodemus... Continue reading “Senior Showcase Highlights Undergraduate Research” ›
ZSR staff member Scott Adair examines the shelves during a visit to the Library Service Center at Duke University. The Wake Forest facility will use a similar high-bay shelving system. The Z. Smith Reynolds Library building exceeded its storage capacity over a decade ago. Despite the rise of electronic media, the library still buys thousands... Continue reading “Storage Facility to Preserve Materials, Make Them More Accessible” ›
The Z. Smith Reynolds Library has installed two additional book return sites to make returning materials to ZSR even easier. The Coy C. Carpenter Library on the Bowman Gray Campus kindly donated two surplus book returns for ZSR use, and the Facilities Department spruced them up before installing them. One return site stands just to... Continue reading “Returning a Book Now More Convenient Than Ever” ›
Following a successful pilot and with the approval of the Committee on Information Technology, Wake Forest University will transition from Blackboard to Sakai, a free and open-source online collaboration and learning management system. Sakai will offer some new features including wikis, blogs and chat. Sakai orientation sessions for faculty will be offered throughout the summer.... Continue reading “Teaching With Technology” ›