Sarah Jeong

• Sarah Jeong’s paper, “Core Resources on Time Series Analysis for Academic Libraries: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography,” has been published in the Charleston Conference Proceedings 2010 (K. Strauch, B.R. Bernhardt, & L.H. Hinds, Eds., Charleston, SC: Against the Grain Press, pp. 200-209). Jeong is the science librarian at Z. Smith Reynolds Library.
• Congratulations to ZSR Library faculty Mary Beth Lock, director of access services, and Mary Scanlon, business & economics librarian, on the recent publication of their co-edited book: Krautter, M., Lock, M. B., & Scanlon, M. G. (2012). “The entrepreneurial librarian: Essays on the infusion of private-business dynamism into professional service.” Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company.

In conjunction with the Words Awake celebration of Wake Forest writers, the spring exhibit in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives features six Wake Forest authors whose papers reside in the archives and manuscripts collections.

Laurence Stallings, Harold Hayes, John Charles McNeill, W.J. Cash, and Gerald Johnson received their undergraduate degrees from Wake Forest. Maya Angelou was awarded an honorary doctorate and is a member of the WFU faculty. Each collection is a fascinating record of the author’s life and career.

The Writers’ Lives exhibit will be on view in the library’s Special Collections Reading Room (Reynolds Wing, 6th floor west) through June 2012. Special Collections is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. For more information or to make an appointment to view the exhibit after hours, please contact Megan Mulder at 336-758-5091 or mulder@wfu.edu.

To read more about the exhibit, click here »

Congratulations to Z. Smith Reynolds Library faculty on their recent publication:

Keener, Molly, Vicki Johnson, and Bobbie L. Collins. “In-House Collaborative Mentoring: Programs That Capitalize on Campus Community Strengths.” College & Research Libraries News 73.3 (2012): 134-46.

The Z. Smith Reynolds Library Senior Showcase recognizes exemplary senior thesis research and senior projects completed by Wake Forest undergraduates in their final year. Launched in 2010, the Senior Showcase gives students the opportunity to share their research or projects before the Wake Forest community at an event hosted by the library on Tuesday, April 24, at 3 p.m.

A committee of library faculty will select up to five students, one from each Division of the College, to be honored from a pool of nominees recommended by you. Continue reading »

Please join Interim Provost Mark Welker and Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration Hof Milam for Campus Connections, an opportunity for non-faculty staff to learn about, discuss and provide input about issues at Wake Forest. The event will be Thursday, Feb. 23, from 8:45-10 a.m. in Benson 401.

This month’s Campus Connections will feature:

• Donna McGalliard, Dean, Residence Life & Housing, who will discuss the residence halls about to go under construction.
• Lynn Sutton, Dean, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, who will discuss how ZSR advances the mission of the University by helping its students, faculty and staff succeed.
• Nate French, Director, Magnolia Scholars Program, who will discuss the Scholars Programs at WFU.

See a list of employees joining and leaving the University in January 2012: Continue reading »

Chad Harbach, the author of “The Art of Fielding,” will read in Auditorium 404 in the ZSR Library today from 7-8 p.m. Harbach’s novel was Amazon’s “No. 1 Book of 2011″ and one of The New York Times’ “10 Best Books of 2011.” Harbach is co-founder and co-editor of the literary journal n+1. He earned his MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia.

Craig Fansler

Congratulations to ZSR Library faculty on their recent publications:

• K. Vicki Johnson and Megan Mulder. “Lights, Camera, Action! Using Archival Collections in Student Documentary Films at Wake Forest University.” Journal for the Society of North Carolina Archivists 9.1(2011): 35-45.
• Craig Fansler and Audra Eagle Yun. “Inside the Box: Incorporating Archival Material into Undergraduate Information Literacy Instruction.” Journal for the Society of North Carolina Archivists 9.1(2011): 15-24.

This week, the library will be hosting two lecture events: Continue reading »

The first ZSR Library Lecture of 2012 will be held at 3 p.m. on Jan. 18 in the ZSR Library Auditorium 404. Fannézha Ford, the student winner of the 2011 WFU/WSSU Martin Luther King Jr. Building the Dream Award, will speak about education and service and why they are significant to her both as an African-American and as a student at Wake Forest.