Library Gazette

On the evenings of February 23rd and April 3rd, a total of around 300 faculty, students and staff participated in a campus deliberation on “Imagining a Different Campus Culture”. Rosalind Tedford and I, along with 20 other faculty, students and staff, volunteered to be moderators for these discussions and received moderator training prior to the events. These were amazing events and you can learn more about what prompted the discussion at:http://college.wfu.edu/campusculture/. The results of these deliberations can be read in a report found at:http://college.wfu.edu/campusculture/wp-content/uploads/DeliberationResults.pdf. This report is a great read, full of insights about the campus culture at Wake Forest University.

Project Launch is a year-long enrichment program in partnership with Paisley Magnet School. A culminating session includes a visit to Wake Forest. This year the campus tour was scheduled for Friday, April 27. In setting up the library tour, the coordinator asked if we could arrange to do a little activity with the Project Launch students before we did the tour. The coordinator had planned to do a campus event with the students. Unfortunately, this did not work out so they needed an activity that the students could do inside the library. With this challenge, Roz, Hu, and Bobbie met and decided that we would do a PowerPoint session using the clickers.

The PowerPoint session included some questions about the history of Wake Forest including: when was Wake Forest founded; who was the first president of Wake Forest, and when did the university move to Winston-Salem. Hu led the clicker presentation. Our visitors had a look of surprise and delight on their faces as they responded to the questions and laughter filled the auditorium when answers were revealed. Additionally, we asked a couple of questions about how they do research. One slide set up the following scenario: Your teacher assigns you a report on a person you know nothing about. What is your first step?) Student responses revealed that 42 of the students reported using a search engine (Google) while none reported using Wikipedia, and only 4 reported visiting a library. Another slide asked students what they thought of when they thought of a library. Sixty-five percent said “books” while the other 35% were divided evenly between “movies”, “computers”, “librarians” and “ebooks”.

Following the presentation, the group was divided into five smaller groups for the library tour. The library tour included quick stops at Special Collections, Government Documents/Microtext, Reference, Circulation, and the Bridge. Thanks to the following tour leaders: Ellen D., Sarah, Hu, Carolyn, and Chris. Also thanks to our ambassadors who were stationed at different service/collection points in the library and provided information about their areas: Megan, Barry, Travis, Kaeley, and Rachel Weaver from The Bridge. Many thanks to all who made this year’s event a success! The tour leaders would also like to thank Bobbie Collins for all her work in organizing the program!

an article by Bobbie Collins and Hu Womack (mostly by Bobbie Collins and posted by Hu Womack)

On Friday, March 2nd, from 9-11pm, the ZSR Library hosted its second Humans V. Zombies event! Our first event, last September, had 80 students participate and this second event had 103 students participate! For two hours humans chased zombies throughout the 170,000 sq ft. of ZSR. Here are some great photos Susan Smith took at the event! I owe a big thanks to Susan Smith, Mary Beth Lock and Megan Mulder who all pitched in to make this event run smoothly! Stayed tuned for details on the Fall 2012 Humans V. Zombies event in October. We are already planning to make that event even bigger than the last!

It’s that time again! The 84^th Academy Awards will be on Sunday, February 26 and ZSR has several of the movies that were nominated already in its collection. These are the films that are available as of Tuesday, February 21 and the nominations that each has received.

• Beginners (DVD 9945): Best Supporting Actor – Christopher Plummer
• A Better Life (DVD 10233): Best Actor – Demián Bichir
• Bridesmaids (DVD 9863): Best Supporting Actress – Melissa McCarthy; Best Original Screenplay- Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (DVD 9959): Best Art Direction – Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan; Best Visual Effects- Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson; Best Makeup – Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin
• The Help (DVD 9943): Best Picture; Best Actress – Viola Davis; Best Supporting Actress – Octavia Spencer; Best Supporting Actress – Jessica Chastain
• Jane Eyre (DVD 9993): Best Costume Design – Michael O’Connor
• Kung Fu Panda 2 (DVD 10230): Best Animated Feature
• Midnight in Paris (DVD 10008): Best Picture; Best Director – Woody Allen; Best Original Screenplay – Woody Allen; Best Art Direction – Anne Seibel, Hélène Dubreuil
• Moneyball (DVD 10120): Best Picture; Best Actor – Brad Pitt; Best Supporting Actor – Jonah Hill; Best Adapted Screenplay – Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian, Story by Stan Chervin; Best Film Editing – Christopher Tellefsen; Best Sound Mixing – Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
• Rango (DVD 9716): Best Animated Feature
• Rio (DVD 9827): Best Original Song – “Real in Rio”
• The Tree of Life (DVD 9990): Best Picture; Best Director – Terrence Malick; Best Cinematography – Emmanuel Lubezki

Also, the American version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which received five nominations, has not yet been released. However, we do have the original version (DVD 8394) available.

Thanks to Media Coordinator Mary Reeves for helping to compile this list. Enjoy Oscar Night, and see you at the movies!

Mary Beth, Giz (top). Barry, Craig, Anna, Wanda, Susan, Steve, Rachel, Chris: this year’s crew!

For the third year, ZSR Library faculty and staff stepped forward to spend a day working at Wake Forest’s Habitat for Humanity House. We had a big crew this year with enough manpower to work on two different houses all day. Once again, we were fortunate to be supervised by Tony, who assured us that the only skill set he expected from us was to be breathing! He and his supervisors are some of the most patient instructors I’ve ever seen. Just think about having to start every day with a group of brand new volunteers! But they calmly showed us how to hold a hammer, use a power saw, and straighten out a bent nail. Before long, all of us were productively hammering, cutting wood, moving scaffolding, and even shingling a porch roof. As usual, all of the ZSR volunteers had a very rewarding experience, even with all the sore muscles that went home with us at the end of the day. Next year, we hope to send another team of enthusiastic house builders (for a day)! Check out a few pictures from the day!

The ZSR Habitat crew would also like to thank our colleagues who covered for us back at the library during this very busy time. Another volunteer was impressed that we had a fabulous team back at the library that would support our ability to be there for the entire day.

Wake Forest University is hosting two visiting students from the University of Liberia in order to continue to strengthen the ties between the two institutions after the visit that Lynn and others took there in the spring. The two students, Jacob Jallah and JoeWilson, had an opportunity to visit ZSR this afternoon and it was my privilege to tour the two of them around the building and highlight some of our existing services. I also discussed aspirations that we have for the library and how our existing infrastructure made it challenging. We took a leisurely tour of the building starting on the 8th floor and ending on Wilson 1. The tour included stops in the Special Collections Reading room where Megan gave a brief overview of the collection, how it developed, and explained the current exhibit on display that is in conjunction with the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. The two had an opportunity to handle a book that was over 600 years old, and while they needed a little coaxing to actually touch it, ended up requesting that I take their picture with the book and Megan. We also visited the Writing Center, room 401, the terrace and the new DVD/viewing room where we had a chat with Mary about the new space. The auditorium was in use, so we only got a brief glimpse into the room, but couldn’t enter it. On Wilson 4, I took them into the Mandlebaum Room. While showing them our newspaper collection thinking that they might be interested in how many international papers we subscribe to, they showed me that their picture was actually on the cover of the Winston-Salem Chronicle! I had them sign our copy immediately! Sarah gave them an overview of our Reference collection and discussed our Lib100 and Lib200 classes. They asked about online books and she shared how to access Google Books as well as how to get access to our databases. Since Joe is an Economics student and Jacob is a Sociology student, we showed them how to get into The Economist and found a “freely available” copy. They were excited to see that! We then traveled to the Bridge where I highlighted the services they provide and I showed them the MultiMedia Lab. Then down to Wilson 1 to show our mobile shelving as a solution to our overcrowded shelves. (Talk about an embarrassment of riches!)

We returned to the circ desk and had about 15 minutes to spare so I took them into Starbucks to buy them some tea. They both found the chilly NC day unexpected, and needed some tea to warm up! I asked them about how their visit was thus far and they said everyone was friendly and welcoming and unlike what they had been told to expect in the States, everyone has been willing to take the time to help them out. They arrived last Saturday and when they were picked up were excited to discover that they could go and see a football game…only to be surprised that it wasn’t football! (They were, of course, expecting soccer.) Their time had been pretty scheduled, but they did have some opportunity to provide input on which events and departments they were most interested in seeing. They will be on campus until October 2nd before returning to Liberia. I encouraged them to come and make use of our services and our collections until then.

In August of 2010, Sarah Jeong began creating a formal Library orientation program for international graduate students and teamed up with Giz Womack based on his role as Instruction and Outreach Librarian. In the beginning, the program included a 15 minute presentation at orientation and an optional library instruction session. This year that program grew to include both undergraduate and graduate students. On August 25th-26th, Sarah and Giz presented at both the graduate and undergraduate International Student Orientations then led all the students on a campus tour. This extended our contact time with the students and increased student participation compared to the optional library instruction session.

The presentations at the orientations included an introduction to the Library website and how to get help, how to check out books, DVDs, and equipment such as iPads and Flip cameras. The graduate students were told about their 250 pages of free printing and study carrels and the undergraduate students were given information on LIB100 and 200 and told of the 50 free pages of printing they receive each semester. Both groups were shown the Library Guide Sarah created for international students, which has also been posted on the Center for International Studies website. Students were also given a card with the QR codes to find the Library’s Facebook page and learn more about events like Capture the Flag and Humans v. Zombies

The campus tour started as we departed Kirby, going out to Manchester Plaza. We pointed out Greene, Carswell and Tribble Halls as well as the Benson Student Center. Next we walked up to the Magnolia Patio and through Reynolda Hall, passing the Center for International Studies and the Office of Academic Advising. On Hearn Plaza (the quad) we pointed out the bookstore, bank and Subway, then walked past the Deacon Shop and stopped just short of the post office to point out the water tower and Worrell Professional Center, explaining that the new “Barn” was in the woods beside Palmer and Piccolo residence halls. We finished up the tour by walking through the arch off the quad and past the Scales Fine Arts Center, then past the ZSR Library and Science Buildings, ending the tours at the Library. Graduate students were shown the Graduate Student Lounge as the end of their tour.

Back in the Spring of 2011, the Z. Smith Reynolds Library arranged a panel discussion on social media at WFU. The panelists were Lauren Pressley, Meghan Haenn, Will Clarke and myself. The event was so well-attended and led to so much discussion afterwards, that I decided it might be time to form a WFU Social Media Users Group. On Thursday, July 28th, the WFU Social Media Users Group had its first meeting in room 476. Eleven of the thirty who attended the original panel discussion attended the users group. We discussed new social media application like the streaming music application, Spotify, and we discussed how different departments on campus have been using social media.

This is an informal group, attended by those who attended the panel and those who have heard about the group through word of mouth. For the time being we plan to keep the group informal and meet at least once each semester. My goal is to maximize our use of social media on campus by sharing ideas and information among various groups on campus already using social media.

This summer Giz Womack and Bobbie Collins have coordinated several information literacy (IL) classes for faculty. Last week we organized IL activities for high school students participating in the LENS program, and this week we provided library instruction for Dr. Collin Craig’s ENG 107 class (Foundations in Academic Research and Writing).

Before our initial class meeting with the students, we met with Dr. Craig and discussed the research projects for the class. This summer students in ENG 107 are examining the life of a student athlete and reflecting on the meanings of literacy at a liberal arts college. One of the student assignments is to compose an argument essay. For this assignment, students are to locate at least five sources to support their thesis.

On the morning of July 19, we met to look over the LibGuide for the class and to review the instructional plan for the class. Everything appeared to be in order. After Dr. Craig opened up the Writing Center, we started plugging in a new T420s Thinkpad so that we could project. The T420s refused to cooperate. So as not to waste any more instructional time, the instructors made a decision to proceed without projecting. We later discovered we had stumbled across an issue with the new ThinkPad and that particular model project in the writing center. The IS multimedia team is diligently working to resolve the issue (which fortunately does not occur with the projector in room 476.)

From a student’s viewpoint, it was probably a little nerve wracking at first not being able to actually see the demonstration of the electronic resources on the screen. To overcome this problem, the instructors quickly developed a plan to deal with the situation. While one instructor talked the students through the steps in finding the link to the LIBGuide and the other electronic resources which were covered in the class, the other instructor moved around the classroom and kept everyone on task. While we do not recommend this as a standard teaching practice, it worked in this particular setting.

The session on July 20 focused on Zotero. For this class, a portable LCD projector was secured from the Bridge (Thanks Barry!) making it easier for students to follow along on their Thinkpads. After a brief brainstorming session on identifying keywords for their topic, students used ProQuest to locate an article. Instructions were given on how to add books and journal articles to Zorero and how to insert citations and a bibliography into a Word document.

During the planning phase for the ENG 107 class, the instructors discussed this question: What should students be able to do at the end of each class? Using the information that Lauren Pressley shared with LIB 100/200 instructors, we developed learning outcomes for our classes. One of the learning outcomes for July 19 was for students to locate an article for their upcoming research paper and email it to themselves. To assess this learning outcome, the instructors checked each student’s email to determine if they had found an article. All 13 students successfully completed the task.Learning outcomes for the class on July 20 included: (1) Successfully installing Zotero; (2) Successfully creating a Zotero Library; and (3) Successfully citing sources and creating a bibliography in MS Word with Zotero. Again all 13 students were able to complete the assignment.

Giz will be meeting with the students on August 1 to present information on Plagiarism, Copyright and Intellectual Property. Molly Keener and Giz worked together to come up with some create ways to address these issues ranging from a discussion of websites that sell papers to a discussion of generic drugs, all in an effort to better inform the students on these issues. Our learning outcome for this session will be for each student to articulate a definition of Plagiarism, Copyright or Intellectual Property and email that definition to Giz.

We have enjoyed partnering with Collin this summer and look forward to working with him in the future.

In May, Giz started planning with Luke Johnston and Leigh Stanfield for the second summer LENS program (A program that teaches rising high school juniors and senior about both the issue of sustainability and about writing at the college level.) In his role as Outreach Librarian, Giz really found some new ways to promote the fun and adventuresome nature of librarians by participating in the ropes course with the LENS students. These teambuilding exercises offered an excellent venue for the students to interact with each other and develop problem-solving skills in challenging group activities. After some warm up exercises, the 23 LENS students, three program advisers and Giz divided into three groups, each group rotated through three activities: a “river” that the group had to cross by working together, an 8 x12 platform teeter-totter that the group had to balance on while completing various activities, and lastly a climbing wall where each member of the team had to challenge themselves to reach the top of a 30ft wall. Throughout the exercises the students were supportive and understanding and learned about working together in teams while learning more about each other.

On Tuesday, July 12, the Womack & Collins information literacy advocacy team drew upon their individual talents to provide instruction for 23 students attending LENS. Building on the success of our previous involvement with the LENS program, we decided to use some of the same library instructional strategies and ideas from the previous year. For example, since the scavenger hunt was such a big hit last year we identified some new resources on their topic of sustainability. Each group was given an item to locate in the library and bring it to class. This year’s students showed off their ability to quickly locate books, popular and scholarly periodicals, and a DVD. Following the scavenger hunt, students were introduced to electronic databases and Zotero.

The session on July 13 focused on designing an effective PowerPoint presentation. After watching a YouTube video (How NOT to Use Powerpoint by Comedian Don McMillan), students were introduced to other web-based presentation tools such as Google presentations and Prezi. Working in their assigned groups, students created a presentation on their research project. It is interesting to note that one group used Prezi, another group selected PowerPoint, and the other five groups created a Google presentation. Presentation topics included: rain barrels, worm composting, recycling at Courtney Elementary, local farms and urban gardens, garden cycling plan at Courtney, bringing healthier foods to Courtney, and visual arts as related to sustainability. All of the students did an excellent job summarizing and presenting their research topic to the class.

In two sessions on Thursday, July 14^th, Barry Davis offered the LENS students instruction on basic digital video editing and an introduction to flip cameras and iPads. Many of these students will use the flip cameras to document their experiences over the three weeks of the LENS program and one group of students will be creating a documentary of the experience. The students were very excited to create digital video and get some hands on experience with the latest iPads.

At the end of the LENS program the students will create and deliver final presentations on their projects, giving them not only the opportunity to reflect on the program and the topic of sustainability, but also giving them more experience with public speaking and technology. It has been great to serve as instructors in the LENS summer program. The LENS students continue to impress us with their creative ideas and eagerness in completing information literacy activities.