Library Gazette

The Library hosted the semi-annual Get Game@ZSR Friday, January 25th from 7-11pm. This installment of Get Game was both an open game night and a Halo 3 tournament. Lynn Sutton, Susan Smith, Erik Mitchell, Tim Mitchell, Kevin Gilbertson, and Caroline Numbers (along with two very dedicated RTAs and John Vientos from Information Systems) were all on hand to help Get Game’s fearless leader, Giz Womack. Along with flyers and posters hung up all over campus, the Library received a tremendous mention on The Student: Get Game @ ZSR! 40 people played and/or stopped by during the night. Due to technical issues at UNC-Greensboro, a tournament between the schools was not possible. However the WFU tournament was held.

The festivities ended when we awarded our trophy to two students, Joel Ernst and Peter Jin pictured above, who proved that they were truly Halo 3 masters.

Check out these blog posts on the Old Gold and Black website:

There’s nothin’ like kickin’ it at Club ZSR until dawn

ZSR Begins Extended Hours for Exams

Also, a mention about the renovations in the 24 hour study rooms in the News and Opinion sections of this week’s OGB:

Students offer suggestions to renovate study rooms

24-hour rooms at ZSR need to become more cozy

The Library hit a little snag this week when wireless in our building started causing consternation amongst our busy student population. It was quite the mystery on campus as to why all of a sudden people were being kicked off the internet or not allowed on.

Upon further investigation from our Information Systems department, the problem was discovered, an issue with a recent security patch that affected the entire campus.

The good news, wireless on campus, and in the Library, is back up and running with no complaints, just in time to finish those research papers and end the semester on a high note!

Person Recognized

Carolyn McCallum

Given By

Lauren Pressley

Reason

Thanks to Carolyn for tracking down a mysterious periodical for a patron!

Person Recognized

Scott Adair, Craig Fansler

Given By

Beth Tedford

Reason

I sent out an e-mail to Scott & Craig asking if they would help to move a desk for me. I told them that we had a student coming in this afternoon that could help. Soon after I sent the e-mail they showed up with the desk. Bless their hearts!

Person Recognized

Waits Raulerson

Given By

Caroline Numbers

Reason

For all of your hard work on the Employee Recognition Committee this year, especially organizing and tabulating the votes for our annual awards.

Person Recognized

Heather Gillette

Given By

Caroline Numbers

Reason

For all of your hard work this year on the Employee Recognition Committee and especially being a shoulder to lean on.

Person Recognized

Kristen Morgan

Given By

Caroline Numbers

Reason

For all of your hard work on the Employee Recognition Committee this year and especially for being our financial adviser and all with a smile.

Person Recognized

Sarah Jeong

Given By

Caroline Numbers

Reason

For all of your hard work on the Employee Recognition Committee this year, and especially for keeping us organized and thinking of the little things we all tend to forget!

Person Recognized

Beth Tedford

Given By

Caroline Numbers

Reason

For all of your hard work on the Employee Recognition Committee this year, including your ability to \"wrap\" (boxes and tables).

Person Recognized

Lynn Sutton

Given By

Caroline Numbers

Reason

Thank you for all of your support for the Employee Recognition Committee this year and for your generous gifts to our awards winners.

Person Recognized

Caroline Numbers

Given By

Giz Womack

Reason

For the amazing job that Caroline, along with the other members of the ERC, did in planning and implementing this year’s annual staff appreciation event.

Person Recognized

Susan Smith

Given By

Giz Womack

Reason

For the hard work Susan put into the Social Stratification in the South trip. The blog entries and flickr pics have been great food for thought, allowing those of us not on the trip to participate vicariously.

Person Recognized

Mary Horton

Given By

Brigett Beck

Reason

Mary Horton did an outstanding job of assisting Sarah and me in the Outlook migration class. We arrived at different times, so she really worked hard to keep mine going and catch Sarah up.

Person Recognized

Patrick Ferrell

Given By

Renate Evans

Reason

Patrick is a great searcher for books that are not in the right place in the stacks.Thank you Patrick!

Person Recognized

Giz Womack

Given By

Caroline Numbers

Reason

Giz has gone above and beyond the call of duty by sending out daily tips for Outlook. Thanks, Giz!

Person Recognized

Carolyn McCallum

Given By

Lauren Pressley

Reason

When I needed a refresher course in batch processing, Carolyn went above and beyond the call of duty to teach me!

Person Recognized

Kevin Gilbertson

Given By

ILL department

Reason

Kevin has been wonderful in fixing ILL problems. He is prompt and he follows up. He just wrote a javascript to allow ISSN to be transferred from MLA database to ILLiad to save us from deciphering illegible characters accompanying those foreign titles.

Person Recognized

Mary Scanlon

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Our access to CCH failed and the three people we contacted either weren’t in their office or refused to help us. Mary found a fourth contact and convinced him to turn our service back on.

Person Recognized

Steve Kelley

Given By

Waits

Reason

Thanks for all your hard work on the Chemistry Library Project. We make a good team, and I’m going to miss that!

Person Recognized

Leslie McCall

Given By

Waits

Reason

Thanks for keeping Marking going while I working on the Chemistry Library Project. It was especially nice of you to take this on without me even having to ask!

Person Recognized

Kaeley McMahan

Given By

Sarah Jeong

Reason

Kaeley does a great job managing the Reference student assistants and coordinating the student assistant schedule!

Person Recognized

Prentice Armstrong

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Prentice patiently helped me twice with looking up old invoices from a vendor. The evidence he provided helped me get our renewal price reduced by about $700.

Person Recognized

Doris Jones

Given By

Anonymous

Reason

Doris did an outstanding job with the food for this semester’s Wake the Library

Person Recognized

Giz Womack

Given By

Heather Gillette

Reason

Thanks for helping ERC flag down the delivery man for the ERC luncheon!

Person Recognized

Caroline Numbers

Given By

Anonymous

Reason

Thanks for pulling everything together for the employee luncheon and remployee recognition awards this year.

Person Recognized

Caroline Numbers

Given By

Lauren Pressley

Reason

Thanks Caroline, for helping out with a surprisingly technical reference question! (the importing email information into Word one)

Person Recognized

Elise Anderson

Given By

Jim

Reason

Elise organized and managed our Annual Booksale. She and her team of dedicated staff orchestrated one of our most successful sales to date, bringing in $3,233.

Person Recognized

Bobbie Collins

Given By

Heather Gillette

Reason

Bobbie helped identify an oddly titled book that a faculty requested through ILL that I couldn’t find. Thanks for the help with “Color Perception.”

Person Recognized

Sharon Snow

Given By

Waits Raulerson

Reason

Congratulations to the Special Collections team for the wonderful Maya Angelou event. It was a truly moving experience.

Person Recognized

Megan Mulder

Given By

Waits Raulerson

Reason

Congratulations to the Special Collections team for the wonderful Maya Angelou event. It was a truly moving experience.

Person Recognized

Craig Fansler

Given By

Waits Raulerson

Reason

Congratulations to the Special Collections team for the wonderful Maya Angelou event. It was a truly moving experience.

Person Recognized

Beth Tedford

Given By

Waits Raulerson

Reason

Congratulations to the Special Collections team for the wonderful Maya Angelou event. It was a truly moving experience.

Person Recognized

Vicki Johnson

Given By

Waits Raulerson

Reason

Congratulations to the Special Collections team for the wonderful Maya Angelou event. It was a truly moving experience.

Person Recognized

Julia Bradford

Given By

Waits Raulerson

Reason

Congratulations to the Special Collections team for the wonderful Maya Angelou event. It was a truly moving experience.

Person Recognized

John Ake

Given By

Elise Anderson

Reason

His generous contribution of time and energy to the book sale. He ransacked the library for book ends, marshalled armadas of student workers during setup, and helped with the final loading of books into the Shepherd’s Center van.

Person Recognized

Mary Scanlon

Given By

Elise Anderson

Reason

For her generous contribution of time and energy to the library book sale. Mary helped me with marketing the sale and she and Carolyn worked together to improve the eye appeal of the sale.

Person Recognized

Carolyn McCallum

Given By

Elise Anderson

Reason

For her generous contribution of time and energy to the book sale. Carolyn and Mary worked together to improve the eye appeal of the sale, and Carolyn suggested an idea about signage in the sale that worked great.

Person Recognized

Judy Byrd

Given By

Elise Anderson

Reason

Judy worked tirelessly to process more than 500 VHS tapes in time for the library book sale. Those tapes that weren’t sold will be donated to the Forsyth Public Library. Thanks, Judy, for all your work.

Person Recognized

Renate Evans

Given By

Elise Anderson

Reason

For her generous contribution of time and energy to the book sale. Renate was very instrumental in advertising the sale on campus, and helped throughout the sale from start to finish.

Person Recognized

Megan Mulder

Given By

Elise Anderson

Reason

For her generous contribution of time and energy to the book sale. Megan helped with the setup and during the sale, and took the time to post flyers of the sale at several locations off campus.

Person Recognized

Jim Galbraith

Given By

Elise Anderson

Reason

For his generous contribution of time and energy to the book sale. Jim helped with the planning of the sale, identified the best books to include in the sale, and assisted repeatedly in the sale from the first cart to the final box.

Person Recognized

Charles Bombeld

Given By

Elise Anderson

Reason

For his generous contribution of time and energy to the book sale. Charles helped with the planning of the sale, worked with Scott to identify the best books to include in the sale, and took photos of the event.

Person Recognized

Scott Adair

Given By

Elise Anderson

Reason

For his generous contribution of time and energy to the book sale. Scott helped with the planning of the sale, worked with Charles to identify the best books to include in the sale, and assisted with the sale itself.

Person Recognized

Laura Spear

Given By

Elise Anderson

Reason

For her generous contribution of time and energy to the book sale. Laura repeatedly volunteered during the setup and the sale, and finally helped box up the leftover books.

Person Recognized

Mary Lib Slate

Given By

Elise Anderson

Reason

For her generous contribution of time and energy to the book sale. Mary Lib helped repeatedly with the sale, from setup to dismantling the sale, and will also deliver some of the remaindered books to the book sale for the Greenville SC literacy program.

Person Recognized

Peter Romanov

Given By

Patrick Ferrell

Reason

Thanks to Peter for pulling all the VHS tapes for the book sale and then shifting the rest of the collection to make room for the DVDs.

Person Recognized

Patrick Ferrell

Given By

Peter Romanov

Reason

For shifting all the “r” books so they are back together on Reynolds 6.

Person Recognized

Scott Adair

Given By

Heather Gillette

Reason

Scott helped solve a time-crunch problem with an ILL patron. Thanks!

Person Recognized

Linda Early

Given By

Heather Gillette

Reason

Linda helped rush a ZSR book through cataloging for an ILL patron. Thanks.

Person Recognized

Ellen Daugman

Given By

Sarah Jeong

Reason

Ellen does a great job creating the Reference Desk schedule every semester. Thanks!

Person Recognized

Lauren Pressley

Given By

Sarah Jeong

Reason

Lauren gave a library tour for 30 elementary school students yesterday. Thanks!

Person Recognized

Kevin Gilbertson

Given By

Lauren Pressley

Reason

For showing the Cook Elementary School students how cool their areas of the library are.

Person Recognized

Craig Fansler

Given By

Lauren Pressley

Reason

For showing the Cook Elementary School students how cool their areas of the library are.

Person Recognized

Sharon Snow

Given By

Lauren Pressley

Reason

For showing the Cook Elementary School students how cool their areas of the library are.

Person Recognized

caroline numbers

Given By

lauren pressley

Reason

For teaching me to always read the fine print (and helping me submit some dedicated deacon nominations).

Person Recognized

Craig Fansler

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Craig did a complicated Photoshop touch-up on one of the Marketing Committee’s Flickr pictures. He turned a bad picture that I took into a nice professional-looking one!

Person Recognized

Mary Scanlon

Given By

Ellen Daugman

Reason

For having cheerfully taken on a BI session on short notice when I was home sick, so I didn’t have to re-schedule. On top of that, she thanked me for having let her teach the class (well, it was on Jane Austen….)

Person Recognized

Mary Horton

Given By

Ellen Daugman

Reason

For having most kindly taken on a BI session with all of 45 minutes advance notice, when I had too optimistically returned to work from illness to teach the class. The professor was grateful, as well.

Person Recognized

Carol Cramer

Given By

Susan Smith

Reason

Carol is doing a fantastic job of coordinating the weeding effort. She handles the scheduling, the “back-end” catalog checking and this makes it easy for us to just show up and decide which books to remove.

Person Recognized

Scott Adair

Given By

Susan Smith

Reason

Scott collaborated with a subcommittee to formulate proposed policies for new library web services: wiki, blogs, and flickr. Thanks for taking on a big task that will aid the implementation of these.

Person Recognized

Scott Adair

Given By

Lauren Pressley

Reason

Thanks for representing access and technical services and devoting time to the blogs, wikis, and flickr policies project. Your probing questions and clear thinking have helped shape clearer and more useful policies.

Person Recognized

Elise Anderson

Given By

Lynn Sutton

Reason

For dropping everything to spend all day analyzing and collecting data for a statistical report I needed.

Person Recognized

Prentice Armstrong

Given By

Jim Galbraith

Reason

Prentice diagnosed then resolved our problem with “Unsubstantiated Commitments.” His work in figuring out this Endeavor “feature” freed up approximately $10,000 in the firm order funds for us to spend on books this fiscal year!

Person Recognized

Prentice Armstrong

Given By

Lynn Sutton

Reason

For helping gather and analyze data in a hurry for a statistical report I needed.

Person Recognized

Wanda Brown

Given By

Heather Gilette

Reason

Wanda helped me to complete me application for the MLS program at UNCG.

Person Recognized

Chris Burris

Given By

Jim Galbraith

Reason

Chris went above and beyond when he took time out for a trip to UNC - Greensboro to stop by the UNCG Library and pick up a journal urgently needed by a faculty member. Thank you for helping resolve this crisis, Chris!

Person Recognized

Chris Burris

Given By

Lynn Sutton

Reason

For dropping everything to get me some serials counts that I needed for a statistical report.

Person Recognized

Carol Cramer

Given By

Susan Smith

Reason

Thanks to Carol for agreeing to help formulate policy proposals for the use of the new library web services - the wiki, blog, and flickr. She and the group put together a thorough plan that will aid implementation.

Person Recognized

Carol Cramer

Given By

Lauren Pressley

Reason

Thanks for representing collection management and devoting time to the blogs, wikis, and flickr policies project. Your enthusiasm has made a wonderful impact.

Person Recognized

Carol Cramer

Given By

Lynn Sutton

Reason

For collecting and analyzing complex data in a hurry that I needed for a statistical report. (We almost had out 2 millionth volume!)

Person Recognized

Jim Galbraith

Given By

Lynn Sutton

Reason

For overseeing the collection and analysis of a lot of data for the ASERL statistical report. He and his staff dropped everything for a day to get it done!

Person Recognized

Kevin Gilbertson

Given By

Susan Smith

Reason

Kevin worked with a group to formulate policies for 3 new web services: wiki, blog, and flickr. Thanks for tackling this assignment and doing such a thorough job!

Person Recognized

Kevin Gilbertson

Given By

Giz Womack

Reason

Kevin built a new page for ZSR Staff Development that allows staff to register for classes and did the same with the student training as well as create an e-mail generator on the fly so I could create slick e-mails about upcoming classes!

Person Recognized

Kevin Gilbertson

Given By

Lynn Sutton

Reason

For immediately finding the data I needed on web and digital statistics for the ASERL report.

Person Recognized

Kevin Gilbertson

Given By

Lauren Pressley

Reason

Thanks for being the technical voice and devoting time to the blogs, wikis, and flickr policies project. Your technical expertise has helped shape policies that are both practical and useful.

Person Recognized

Erik Mitchell

Given By

Carol Cramer

Reason

Last year Erik had the GREAT idea to import each big batch of e-book records with its own location code. Today Lynn needed a report ASAP. Erik’s coding made the report design so easy that Waits and I were able to figure it out on our own in less than 30 minutes.

Person Recognized

Erik Mitchell

Given By

Giz Womack

Reason

Erik go tall the new faculty subscribed super fast to “ZSReads” so I could e-mail them our training classes on the first day of class!

Person Recognized

Erik Mitchell

Given By

Lauren Pressley and Kaeley McMahon

Reason

Thanks for coming to our Lib100 class to install files and help get everyone set up with EndNote!

Person Recognized

Erik Mitchell

Given By

Lynn Sutton

Reason

For having the data available in the first place and finding it in a minute when I needed counts of bib records for the ASERL report.

Person Recognized

Kristen Morgan

Given By

Lynn Sutton

Reason

For compiling data that I needed in a hurry for a statistical report for ASERL.

Person Recognized

Caroline Numbers

Given By

Lauren Pressley and Kaeley McMahon

Reason

Thanks for coming to out Lib100 class to install files and help get everyone set up with EndNote!

Person Recognized

Lauren Pressley

Given By

Susan Smith

Reason

Lauren worked with 3 fellow ZSR staff to formulate policies for our new web services - our wiki, blog, and flickr. This will help insure a successful implementation of these new (to us) technologies.

Person Recognized

Lauren Pressley

Given By

Roz Tedford

Reason

Lauren came to my office to help me get all set up on bloglines.com. Now I can read all my favorite blogs and news sites from one web page! Thanks Lauren!

Person Recognized

Mary Scanlon

Given By

Lauren Pressley

Reason

Thanks for making my drive into work so much more entertaining…with an ad on WFDD for the Anthony Parent lecture!

Person Recognized

Susan Smith

Given By

Lynn Sutton

Reason

For helping me get the statistical data I needed in a hurry - even though she had a million other things to do!

Person Recognized

Susan Smith

Given By

Lauren Pressley and Kaeley McMahon

Reason

Thanks to Susan for organizing, running, and teaching the EndNote session of our Lib100 class. Our students appreciate it and we REALLY appreciate the time it saves in grading!

Person Recognized

Roz Tedford

Given By

Lauren Pressley

Reason

Thanks, Roz, for sharing all your liaison tips and tricks. I really appreciate you words of wisdom.

Person Recognized

Christina Yu

Given By

Heather Gillette

Reason

Christina came in on her day off to fax a letter of recommendation to UNCG so I could start classes this January.

Person Recognized

Christina Yu

Given By

Lynn Sutton

Reason

For immediately providing the detailed ILL data I needed for the ASERL statistical report.