We are excited to announce that Eric Ames, our Curator of Digital Collections, has been named to the second class of community representatives for the Digital Public Library of America! The DPLA announced the appointments on their blog today. Eric joins five other CR’s in the state of Texas and 200 others across the country as frontline representatives for the…
Month: May 2014
(Digital Collections) Browning Day 2014
Several members of the DPG team were privileged to present at the Armstrong Browning Library’s annual Browning Day celebration this week. The event, held on Robert Browning’s birthday every year, celebrates the life, legacy and impact of the poet’s work and features receptions, guest speakers and more. Assistant Director Darryl Stuhr and Curator of Digital Collections Eric Ames joined Ian…
(Digital Collections) Frozen in Greenland, Celebrating in Green and Gold: WWII Hero Clint Best’s Baylor Ties
If you were to flip to page 40 of the 1948 “Round Up” – Baylor’s annual yearbook – you’d find the entry for senior accounting major Alfred Clinton “Clint” Best. Aside from a notation that he was a member of Alpha Chi and hailed from Waco, you’d have no reason to guess the man with the avuncular face and…