Architect’s rendering of the Faculty Collaborative Services project
During the fall semester, we began to build on the work accomplished in the 2013 Vision Plan for the Z. Smith Reynolds Library building. Architects from Perkins + Will are developing a formal Master Plan that will guide future renovations in a holistic manner.
As in recent years, we will continue to carry out discrete renovation projects as funding becomes available. During the summer of 2016, we constructed two new classrooms that expand library instruction capabilities. Room 624 is located next to the Special Collections & Archives department on Reynolds 6, and Room 477 is on Wilson 4 in the Reference area. You can reserve these rooms for non-class hours using the University room booking system (DeaconSpace).
In summer 2017, we will upgrade two separate spaces from Phase 1 of the renovation plan.
- Reynolds 400 (current location of Microtext and Government Documents) will become a Scholars Commons. We will create a student study room with flexible study options, plenty of electricity and increased technology choices. The room will be refreshed with new furniture, paint and light fixtures. There will be a major increase in number of available electrical outlets. We will also update, enhance and increase the technology available for student use.
- The Faculty Collaborative Services project will create two complementary faculty-focused spaces on the sixth floor of the Wilson Wing. This project will locate the Teaching and Learning Collaborative and the Digital Scholarship Lab adjacent to each other, taking advantage of natural synergies between their missions and affording an efficient sharing of class and conference rooms, a recording studio and a faculty lounge. Space for this project will be created by shifting collections in that area to other locations in the library.
For the past several years, ZSR Library has offered multimedia equipment such as cameras, projectors and voice recorders for checkout from The Bridge. Starting this semester, you can reserve these items in advance via an online form and pick them up at their new location, the Circulation Desk.
This new reservation system lets you secure the equipment with certainty for use for events and classes. To accommodate this change, walk-in checkouts for this equipment will no longer be available.
See the full list of available equipment on the library website. Chromebooks will continue to be available for immediate checkout from the Circulation Desk. Please feel free to contact Barry Davis with any questions!
2016 Honorees (L to R): Emily Goodman, Adam Hammer, Andrew Hayes, Kathleen DiNapoli
Save the date for the Eighth annual Senior Showcase, a celebration of exemplary undergraduate senior honors research and artistic projects, on Tuesday, April 18 in the ZSR Auditorium. Since 2010, over 25 former students have highlighted the breadth of undergraduate research and creative pursuits, from mapping the streets of Paris to scaling the mountains of Nepal to observing human subjects in on-campus exercise studies. In addition to sharing their research with the campus community, each honoree is awarded a $1,000 prize in recognition of their achievement.
Nominated by their faculty advisers, students are selected by a committee of library faculty for invitation to the Showcase, one per Division of the undergraduate College. Projects in progress, or completed, during the 2016-17 academic year are eligible, and are reviewed based on these criteria:
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- Clear statement of purpose
- Evidence of thorough research
- Credible sources
- Development of the idea
- Presentation
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- Written
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- Well organized
- Well written
- Sound reasoning
- Artistic
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- Skill/aptitude
- Interpretation
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- Originality
- Creativity
- Importance to the field
- Strength of the faculty advisor’s recommendation, summarizing the above Impact areas
A call for nominations will be issued in February. Contact Molly Keener with any specific inquiries. Plan now to nominate your top senior students’ theses and projects!
Do your students need help with finding primary sources for their lab reports and research papers? Do you need assistance with research instruction on advanced search techniques in PubMed or PubChem?
Starting this semester, ZSR Library offers new research services at Wake Downtown in the spirit of our mission to help students and faculty succeed wherever they are.
Sarah Jeong, Research & Instruction Librarian for Science, will hold office hours on Tuesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. beginning February 7 at the Innovation Quarter. You can find her in Faculty Touchdown, Room 1504.
- Martin Luther King Panel Discussion: Matthew Williams, Director of Communication in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, will facilitate a discussion with the 2016 WFU-WSSU Martin Luther King Jr. “Building the Dream” award winners, T. Nathaniel French and Chizoba Ukairo. Thursday, January 26, 4 p.m., ZSR Library Auditorium (Room 404, Reynolds Wing).
- Michele Gillespie, Katharine and R. J. Reynolds and the Making of the Modern South. Monday, January 30, 4 p.m., ZSR Library Auditorium (Room 404, Reynolds Wing).
- Carrie Johnston, Lecture on the Harvey Girls. Tuesday, February 28, 4 p.m., ZSR Library Auditorium (Room 404, Reynolds Wing).
- Charlie Lovett, The Lost Book of the Grail: Book Reading and Signing. Thursday, March 16, 4 p.m., ZSR Special Collections (Room 625, Reynolds Wing).
- Lynn Book, A Lecture on Dada. Monday, March 20, 4 p.m. ZSR Library Auditorium (Room 404, Reynolds Wing).
To watch YouTube streams of past lectures or to learn more about upcoming events, visit the Library Lecture Series website.
Is your office cluttered with library books you aren’t using or have finished with? You don’t need to brave the elements to return them – just use ZSR Delivers to request an Office Pickup. After logging in, look for the Office Pickup link under “Forms.” If you have questions, email zsrdelivers@wfu.edu.
This spring, ZSR will offer 13 weekday Zotero workshops geared to faculty. In addition, encourage your students to attend one of eight Zotero workshops on Sunday afternoons. Each Sunday session will be preceded by “The Right Way to Cite,” which will take students through the basics of both MLA Seventh and Eighth edition, and APA and Chicago citation formats. If you have students who need more extensive help citing sources, please recommend these back-to-back sessions.
This semester we are hosting these workshops both at ZSR and at Wake Downtown! The first citation workshops in the Innovation Quarter will be Sunday, February 26, with The Right Way to Cite Workshop from 2-3 p.m. and Zotero for Managing and Citing Sources from 3-4 p.m.! Both of these workshops will be held in Room 1615.
We will also offer two, 30-minute BrowZine workshops. BrowZine is both a website and smartphone/tablet app that lets you browse the latest articles in your favorite scholarly journals. In these short sessions, you will learn how to use the BrowZine website or install and use the BrowZine app to view, read and save scholarly journal articles in your discipline!
In the final weeks of the semester, the library will once again host “Sources, Citations and Cookies.” These drop-in research sessions help meet the high demand for personal research sessions at the end of the semester, while still offering individual assistance to students.
Special Collections & Archives proudly announces the donation of the U.S. Representative Donna Edwards Congressional Papers to the University. A native of Yanceyville, N.C., Edwards (’80) earned her WFU degree in English and Spanish. After working for Lockheed Corporation at the Goddard Flight Center with the Spacelab Program, she earned a law degree from the University of New Hampshire. As a lawyer, Edwards focused on activism, serving as the first executive Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. She was elected to Congress as a Democrat for Maryland’s 4th Congressional District in 2008, and she served until 2017.
Her collection of congressional papers includes hearing materials, testimony, statements, memoranda, notes, photographs, video footage and memorabilia collected during Rep. Edwards’ time in office and official duties. The collection will be processed by archivists and made available to researchers in 2018.
Special Collections & Archives contains manuscripts, rare books, the North Carolina Baptist Historical Collection and the University Archives. For additional information concerning these collections, please contact archives@wfu.edu or the Director, Tanya Zanish-Belcher.
In recent years, the ZSR Library has responded to user demand for more streaming video. Compared to the DVD format, streaming video offers faculty more flexibility in assigning films for classes. Currently we offer over 41,000 streaming films – mostly documentaries and educational titles – across multiple vendor platforms. One popular platform is Kanopy, which offers about 14,000 titles. Last semester, Wake Forest students and faculty viewed 35,858 minutes of film via the Kanopy platform, with over 1,700 visits.
Among the films available is "The Hollerin’ Contest at Spivey’s Corner," co-directed by Brian Gersten (MFA '16) and Liv Dubendorf. Detailing the "history, characters and sounds of North Carolina’s National Hollerin’ Contest," Gersten and Dubendorf’s film screened at over 15 international film festivals in the past year.
We wanted to know more, and Gersten gamely answered these questions: Read more...
New Resources
- Sage Video: Counseling & Psychotherapy
- Counseling and Therapy in Video IV These videos can be searched alongside the videos from modules I-III.
- RIPM (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals and RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals)
- New Jacoby Ancient history resource. A revised edition of the Greek texts of Felix Jacoby’s Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker.
- Cambridge Histories A multi-disciplinary series of over 300 volumes spanning 15 subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music and the arts.
- IBZ Online (Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur) The bibliography focuses on German and international periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.
- New Testament Abstracts Online
- JoVE Chemistry Videos of fundamental and applied chemistry research.
- Statista Business statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 18,000 sources on over 60,000 topics.
Databases on the Move
Berg Fashion Library has a new URL.
Other Changes
Dictionary of Old English formerly A-G. Now includes H.
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