Category Archives: Collections

Item Spotlight – “Female Education: Address Delivered at the Annual Examination of the Baylor University by Col. William P. Rogers” (The Texas Collection – Selections)

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Eric Ames

Our item spotlight this time around focuses on an antebellum publication that addresses two controversial issues – one directly, one obliquely – from the point of view of a former U.S. Consul to Mexico, an early law professor at Baylor … Continue reading →

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Baylor Faculty Members Secure Grant Funding for Digital Collections-Based Research Project

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Eric Ames

In a year filled with firsts for the Digital Projects Group, we’re excited to announce another. Two Baylor University faculty members – Dr. Greg Hamerly (Associate Professor, Computer Science) and Dr. William Weaver (Assistant Professor, Great Texts Program – Honors … Continue reading →

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The Brazos River: Impacting Life in Waco, Scholarship at Baylor

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Eric Ames

In support of our colleagues at The Texas Collection and their upcoming event, The Brazos River and the Baylor Achives, we’re reposting a link from last year that shows the awesome power of the Brazos River in flood stage from … Continue reading →

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A Club for Every Interest: The 1906 “Round-Up”

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Eric Ames

One of the great joys of my job as Curator of Digital Collections is the opportunity I get to go in-depth with the materials we host as part of the Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections. They are drawn from every … Continue reading →

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Collection Spotlight: The Keston Digital Archive

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Eric Ames

Baylor University is a long way from Kirov, Russia and the halls of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, but one digital archive unites these seemingly disparate places through the common bond of The Keston Collection. The Keston … Continue reading →

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If You Scan Something, Set It Free: The Surprising Places We Find Our Digital Objects Online

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Eric Ames

For the parents among our readership, you well know that stepping back and letting your child experience life on their own – from their first unaided steps to the day they walk the stage at graduation – is one of … Continue reading →

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Bonnie and Clyde (and Pat) and The Texas Collection Artifact That Ties Them Together

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Eric Ames

Frank Jasek, the library’s resident bookbinder and preservationist extraordinaire, wheeled the book truck into my office, his face aglow with mischief. “Have you ever seen one of these before?” he asked, gesturing to a large bound volume measuring about a … Continue reading →

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“The Path of Good Intentions is a Steep Learning Curve” – An Update from Zada Law

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Eric Ames

  Longtime readers of this blog may remember a post we wrote about a researcher at Middle Tennessee State University named Zada Law and her work to use GIS (Geographic Information System) data and our historic War of the Rebellion … Continue reading →

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The Rise and Fall of the Soash Empire: A West Texas Hard Luck Story

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Eric Ames

Everything’s bigger in Texas, the hoary old chestnut reminds us, and no group of people understood the Lone Star State’s geographic expansiveness like the speculators who bought up acres of prime Texas land for pennies on the dollar and hoped … Continue reading →

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A Century of Daily Baylor History, Now Online: The “Lariat” Digital Collection

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Eric Ames

If you follow us on Facebook, you’ll recall a few weeks ago that I teased some “big news” was forthcoming. Well, the wait is over, and we’re excited to announce that thanks to the efforts of the Digitization Projects Group, … Continue reading →

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