Library Gazette

While at the First-Year Experience Conference (blog post, podcast), I heard several schools talk about their summer reading programs for freshmen. One book came up at several of these sessions, Tracy Kidder’s “Mountains Beyond Mountains.” It is the story of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man working to stamp out diseases like Multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis while also bringing proper healthcare to countries where people still die from very treatable illnesses. Dr. Farmer’s story is so compelling because he is so deeply committed to his work, even though it comes a cost to both his personal and professional life. This book is a great read R154.F36 K53 2003

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Mary Reeves

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Caroline Numbers

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Mary worked very hard to make sure that Mary Dalton’s program on civil rights in Winston-Salem was a success, from setup to cleanup, she did a great job!

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Carolyn McCallum

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Caroline Numbers

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Carolyn helped with the setup and cleanup (as well as playing the showcased video) during Mary Dalton’s program on civil rights in Winston-Salem, she was excellent.

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Tim Mitchell

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Caroline Numbers

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Tim helped me setup and cleanup (especially with cleanup) the technology portion of Mary Dalton’s program on civil rights in Winston-Salem. He’s always there to help out!

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Renate Evans

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Heather Gillette

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Renate worked my 2 hours circulation desk shift so I could attend an important meeting.
Thanks!

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Mary Reeves

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Heather Gillette

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Thanks for helping learn the ropes of working at the circulation desk.

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Joe Harrington

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Heather Gillette

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Thanks for helping me learn the ropes of working at the circulation desk.

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Prentice Armstrong

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Kristen Morgan

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I really appreciate Prentice delivering our mail to us each afternoon! He is a true Dedicated ZSR Library Deacon!

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Brigett Beck

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Kristen Morgan

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I really appreciate Brigett delivering our mail to us each morning! She is a true Dedicated ZSR Library Deacon!

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Judy Simmons

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Kristen Morgan

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Thanks Judy for sorting our mail for us! I really appreciate it!

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Doris Jones

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Wanda Brown

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Thanks to Doris for being so dependable and for always being willing to lend a helping hand!

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Tim Mitchell

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Craig

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Tim fixed my printer, just like that, and immediately. WOW! Now that’s a Dedicated Deacon.

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Prentice Armstrong

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Tim Mitchell

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For helping my move from my old pad (room 302) to my new crib (room 258).

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Heather Gillette

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Tim Mitchell

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For helping my move from my old pad (room 302) to my new crib (room 258).

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Craig Fansler

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Tim Mitchell

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For helping my move from my old pad (room 302) to my new crib (room 258).

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Steve Kelley

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Tim Mitchell

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For helping my move from my old pad (room 302) to my new crib (room 258).

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Erik Mitchell

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Tim Mitchell

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For helping my move from my old pad (room 302) to my new crib (room 258).

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Susan Smith

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Tim Mitchell

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For helping my move from my old pad (room 302) to my new crib (room 258).

While traveling to the First-Year Experience conference (see my postings on the ZSR Professional Development Blog) I read Robin Wasserman’s book “Lust.” It is the first in a series of books, each based on one of the seven deadly sins. The characters are all seniors in high school living in the fictional town of Grace. While much of the drama of the relationships may seem standard, Robin Wasserman brings some needed depth to the characters to make the appealing in spite of their behavior. The tag line on the cover “It’s getting hot in here” is very true. For those of us who went to high school a long time ago, this is a very different generation. I plan to pick up the next book in the series “Envy” before I get on the plane to come home!

A BibID is a unique identifier for each bibliographic record in the catalog. BibIDs have several nifty uses even for people who never use the back end of Voyager.

Links to catalog records
You can make a short and persistent link to a specific record in the OPAC by using this syntax:
http://catalog.zsr.wfu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=123456

In this case 123456 is the BibID. BibID links are how we connect to ZSR Print Holdings on the Journals page.

Reporting errors
When submitting a FixZak report, you can include the BibID number to ensure that we’ll quickly get to the right record. You may find typing in a BibID faster than typing in a title or otherwise describing where you were in the catalog.

Great! So how do I find a BibID?
Click on Staff View in any record. Copy the number in the 001 field, which is always the second row in the record.

In response to student requests, starting tomorrow, February 17, 2008, ZSR Library is moving to a open 24/5 schedule. This means that each week, the library will open at 10 am on Sunday, and stay open until 7:00 pm on Friday evenings, during the spring and fall semesters. Saturday hours will remain the same as before. Details on the new schedule are available on our library news blog. Also, read about the new hours in an Old Gold & Black article.

A project called “ZSR Library Inventory” began ever so quietly back on July 19th, 2001 with a hand-held scanner, an Access database, and the tireless dedication of Patrick Ferrell and ZSR student employees. I am glad to report that, a mere six and half years ( and two complete building inventories) later, we have narrowed our list of missing books down to a mere 4,669 out of 1,625,821 items. That comes to a mere .29% of our collection! While I wish that I could say that that means that a student looking for any given book on our shelves has a probability of 99.71% of finding that book, at least I can say that we have scanned every bar-coded book in this library twice. . .and that is quite an accomplishment!

This morning, I set the Voyager item statuses of all of those items to “Missing” and set a statistical category that tells us these items were missing as of our inventory on 02/2008. This project saw the work of many people over the last six years but the weight of work fell on Patrick who somehow kept this project going through software and data errors, system migrations, and forgetful Systems Librarians.