Exhibits

During the last week of September, ZSR Library will host events surrounding the reading of the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The book is also being read along with the Forsyth County Public Library and their Big Read Program. This is a very provocative book, especially for libraries, because the story is about a society where books are routinely burned. For this event, I constructed 3 large books with flames coming out of the top.

To create the Religious Intolerance project, Dr. Neal received a grant from the Chambers Family Fund for Entrepreneurship and a grant from the Wake Forest University Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts.The class, which met Spring Semester, 2008, is working on a project entitled: “Portraits of Hate, Lessons of Hope:Examining Religious Intolerance in America.”I met with students in Dr. Neal’s class to develop library exhibits.The exhibits in the library will contain images of religious hatred along with some historical context and analysis to begin a dialogue about this issue.Six students in Dr. Neal’s class worked with Craig Fansler in the ZSR Library to put the exhibit together.The exhibit was installed August 25th after the construction in the library entrance was completed.

Paintings of wild flowers made by Mary V. Walcott in 1925.

The book, North American Wild Flowers, printed by the Smithsonian Institution in 1925, contains paintings made by Mary Vaux Walcott. These paintings are life-size and are housed in Rare Books in a 5-volume folio.

Earth Day is April 22.

Earth Day is April 22, 2008. An exhibit was created to feature books and DVD’s in the ZSR Library collection.

For Black History Month, one part of the exhibit holds books from the library collection on the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement.

For Black History Month, the exhibit focuses on literature about the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement and the 1960 Sit-ins in Winston-Salem. During these Sit-ins, 12 students from Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State were arrested. A historical marker in downtown Winston-Salem marks the location of the event.

Cristina Yu put together an exhibit for the Year of the Rat which begins on Feb 7, 2008

Cristina Yu and I put together an exhibit for the Year of the Rat which begins on Feb 7, 2008

LeVar Burton, actor and activist, will give a presentation at Wait Chapel on Wake Forest University January 21, 2008. Burton is well known for his role as Kunta Kinte in the 1977 series Roots. He also acted a prominent role in Star Trek-The Next Generation and the PBS series, Reading Rainbow. Burton will give a presentation entitled: “On Common Ground”.

The forerunner of todays comic books and graphic novels, the dime novel explored themes of adventure. During the Civil War, Dime Novels were perhaps the most popular form of reading for soldiers on both sides. The ZSR Library has an extensive Dime Novel collection in the Microtext Department that is well worth exploring.

Frank Lloyd Wright designed many of the most innovative and beautiful structures in America. His techniques and design were groundbreaking. His idea of incorporating the design into the environment was a new idea, is still used widely.

Albert Schweitzer, humanitarian, physician, and Nobel Laureate is the topic of this exhibit. He was a man who simply gave his entire life to the service of others. In recent years, Schweitzer has been somewhat forgotten for the exemplary human being he was, and this exhibit focuses on his life and service.