Exhibits

October 19-23 is Open Access Week. This exhibit seemed very timely with the addition of our Scholarly Communications Librarian Molly Keener and the opening of our institutional repository Wakespace. The exhibit, along with a presentation will hopefully educate our community about open access issues.

I taught my first LIB 100 class the first half of Fall Semester 2009. I got lots of help from Roz Tedford and Lauren Pressley and my assistant, Megan Mulder. I decided the class would do an exhibit as a final project for the course. ZSR was participating in the Big Read which focused on Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. I gave the class a general topic of an artist from the Harlem Renaissance in the areas of visual art, literature, poetry, music and theater. The class was divided into five groups of three students who then selected Aaron Douglas (visual art); Zora Neale Hurston (literature); Langston Hughes (poetry); Louis Armstrong (music) and The Apollo Theater (theater). The assignments early in the course introduced them to our print and electronic resources and allowed them to build a base knowledge on their subject. The exhibits were constructed over the last class sessions in the Preservation Lab. For the last class session, each group gave a short presentation about their topic. I have to say-something happens when you turn students loose in a great library like ZSR with glue, paper, scissors! The exhibits display the knowledge these students gained as well as demonstrates their curiosity and creativity. When you get a chance, visit these student exhibits on the east side of Reynolds 4 (Old Periodicals Room).

I teamed up again with Dr. Lynn Neal and her Religion class to design exhibits this fall. I met with the class in September and broke out my traveling exhibits box to show various projects students have done in the past. I also gave the class several handouts and described the process of designing a good exhibit. A few weeks went by and then I started getting email requests to set up a meeting from several of the small groups. We ended up meeting and coming up with a rough design for each exhibit.
The groups all worked together to create and install their exhibits using my workspace as a staging area.
These exhibits turned out to be inventive, well thought out and educational.

This exhibit was designed to support the speech by Graham T. Allison on October 1st in the Brendle Recital Hall as part of The Voices in Our Time series. Allison is the author of “Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Catastrophe” and has served in the Reagan and Clinton administrations. Allison is a graduate of Davidson and Harvard Colleges, and now works with Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Revisiting the Legacy of Albert Schweitzer: Reverence for Life in a Global Context, a symposium, will be held on Tuesday, September 22nd, 4:30 - 6:30 at Wait Chapel.

As part of a collaborative effort with the Forsyth County Public Library, ZSR created an exhibit for The Big Read. The book title this year is Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.

The Power of “Z” -this exhibit highlights the services offered at the ZSR Library-in graphic novel style.

First on the Moon exhibit-highlights the 40th anniversary of the first man on the moon.

The great American painter, Andrew Wyeth, died in early 2009. This exhibit reviews his life and work.

Michael Alexander’s ink paintings are now on display at the entrance of the ZSR Library. These loose sumi-e style paintings are beautifully rendered. There is also a description of Alexander’s painting style and tools. Please visit these delightful paintings.

What is a poster session? Surely, many have wondered what a poster session actually is. This week, ZSR has begun placing poster sessions from our staff in the exhibit cases on Reynolds 4. This will give the curious a chance to see many posters developed and presented by ZSR at a variety of conferences across the country. This was of visually presenting one’s research or coursework at a conference allows colleagues to see and learn from what we’re doing at ZSR-and we all know how exciting things are at ZSR! Usually, these posters are presented once or twice, and then stored away. By displaying our posters, the university community will get a look at some of the things we’re doing. Please visit the displayed posters on Reynolds 4 and see what poster sessions are all about.

Painting by Shanta Hauser

Wire sculpture by Daniel Whitmer