Are you interested in exploring alternative forms of publishing for your manuscript or course materials? Since 2011, Digital Publishing @ Wake, led by Bill Kane, has converted previously unpublished materials into e-books, which are primarily hosted on a scalable digital publishing platform called Tizra. Tizra now contains over 12,000 distinct pages in an eclectic database... Continue reading “Digital Publishing @ Wake: Your Local Online Publishing Alternative” ›
Najla Said Book Talk and Signing: Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family Friday, September 5 at 10 a.m. ZSR Library Auditorium (Room 404, Reynolds Wing) Lev Grossman Book Talk and Signing: The Magician’s Land Friday, September 5 at 3 p.m. ZSR Special Collections Reading Room (Room 625, Reynolds Wing) Kate Bruce,... Continue reading “Library Lecture Series” ›
Zotero: Introduction to Collecting, Managing and Citing Your Research Sources Four dates and times available Multiple Locations Zotero is a powerful open-source citation manager and research tool that integrates directly into the Firefox, Chrome or Safari browser. Participants will learn how to install Zotero and start using it to cite sources and create bibliographies in... Continue reading “Upcoming Technology Workshops” ›
NC LIVE eBook Collection The statewide library consortium NC LIVE recently released this collection of more than 1,000 e-books from a variety of North Carolina publishers. The collection includes popular and scholarly nonfiction, novels by well-known NC authors, and award-winning short fiction and poetry. All the books can be read online or downloaded to a... Continue reading “Database News” ›
Dean Lynn Sutton, head of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library since 2004, has been named Vice Provost of the University effective July 1. She succeeds Jennifer Collins, who is leaving Wake Forest to become Dean of the Law School at Southern Methodist University. “These have been the best ten years of my professional life,” says... Continue reading “Sutton Appointed Vice Provost” ›
Earlier this year, ZSR Library began contributing items from ZSR Digital Collections to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). DPLA provides access to the digital collections of libraries, archives, museums and historical societies across the United States. DPLA home page The Wake Forest University contribution includes digitized copies of student newspapers, photographs, letters, diaries... Continue reading “ZSR Contributes Collections to the Digital Public Library of America” ›
These Chinese literary works are among the 27,000 titles that will be preserved in the ZSR off-site facility. Libraries have an obligation to preserve the written record for the benefit of humanity. At ZSR, that obligation is most keenly felt in cases where a ZSR book is one of the last remaining extant copies. The... Continue reading “Protecting Rare Volumes by Moving to Storage” ›
Continuing in its ZSRx series of open, online courses for the Wake Forest community, the ZSR Library is excited to announce its newest course, ZSRx Tweets, a three-week guided exploration of Twitter, the popular social networking service. In this free course, Wake Forest Fellow Laura Chin will help you to get started with Twitter and... Continue reading “ZSRx Tweets” ›
L to R: Ryan Whittington, Christopher Earle, David Inczauskis, Rachel Cumbest On April 22, the ZSR Library hosted the fifth Annual Senior Showcase before a large crowd of students, faculty, staff and parents. The Showcase was proposed in late 2009 by a graduating Wake Forest senior who was impressed by his peers’ research, yet was... Continue reading “Senior Showcase 2014” ›
L to R: Michael Riley, Rogan Kersh, Andy Chan On March 20, the ZSR Library hosted a two-hour conversation entitled “The Big Disruption: The Coming Transformation of Higher Education.” Dean Lynn Sutton moderated the discussion featuring panelists Provost Rogan Kersh, WFU Vice President of Career Development Andy Chan and Michael Riley ’81, who is editor... Continue reading ““Big Disruption” Event Fills Pugh” ›
