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New Video Efforts
One of my goals for my first year is to do a complete refresh of all of the content in the Toolkit. In my role serving online students, I understand the power of video in teaching library tools and...
View ArticleZSRx: The MOOC that wasn’t a MOOC
Remember that time ZSR offered an online information literacy course? No, not that one. This one. The one we designed to be MOOC-like, free and open to anyone, focused on general web literacy skills,...
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Search tip #23: Truncation!
Raise your hand if you’ve been here before: stuck in a library database, wondering why your search for articles about something like the role of computers in childhood development isn’t returning any...
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10 ways to get your citation game on point with Zotero
Zotero is an amazing free tool for helping you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Think of it as EasyBib on steroids. Here are ten ways you can use Zotero to help you research...
View ArticleAnnouncing RootsMOOC: A Free Online Genealogy Course
If you’re like me, researching your family history has been one of those fascinating pastimes that has always seemed just out of reach. There are about a million different places to start and just as...
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Course Reserves and Sakai: Better Together
Faculty, you already know and love our Course Reserves system for providing your students convenient access to book chapters and journal articles in ZSR’s collections. But did you know that you can...
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ZSRx Mini-MOOC is a Great Success!
In March and April, the Z. Smith Reynolds Library conducted a successful mini-MOOC (massive, open, online course) for 700 Wake Forest University parents and alumni. ZSRx: The Cure for the Common Web...
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ZSRx: The Open, Online Learning Community at Wake Forest
As previously announced, ZSRx: The Cure for the Common Web was a great success. Designed as a free, open, online course marketed to Wake Forest alumni and parents, hundreds in the WFU community...
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ZSRx Offers Online Course on Digital Publishing
In February, the Z. Smith Reynolds Library will offer a free, open, online course called ZSRx: Digital Publishing. This informal, three-week course will explore the “past, present and future perfect...
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ZSRx Tweets
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,...
View ArticleRootsMOOC for Genealogy Research
Since 2013, ZSR has been developing ZSRx, a platform of free online learning opportunities for the greater WFU community. The most recent ZSRx offering, RootsMOOC, launched on March 23 and is the most...
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Exciting Zotero Updates!
Earlier this summer, ZSR’s favorite citation management software, Zotero, received a number of exciting updates with the release of Zotero 5.0. Read on for a list of the biggest updates and register...
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Tags: One Small Step for Course Reserves, One Giant Leap for Our Users
Who doesn’t love Course Reserves? Faculty love it because they can get their students the course materials they need on the very first day of class, without having to worry about running afoul of...
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