Five Things You Probably Don’t Know About The Texas Collection (Unless You Just Spent Ten Weeks Here)
Month: August 2018
(ABL) Rhyme and Reform: Victorian Working-Class Poets and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Cry of the Children”
Rhyme and Reform: Victorian Working-Class Poets and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Cry of the Children”
Celebrating Moody’s 50th Anniversary (From the 2018 ITS & Libraries Magazine)
Few buildings on campus are as iconic as Moody Memorial Library, a mid-century marvel anchoring the end of Fountain Mall opposite Pat Neff Hall. Long considered the academic life center of campus, Moody has been home to millions of print volumes, late night study sessions, expert guidance from library faculty and countless hours spent in study carrells. In celebration of…
(Digital Collections) Celebrating Aretha Franklin
The passing of legendary artist Aretha Franklin has elicited an outpouring of praise from around the world, including in both mainstream and music-centered journalism outlets. Everyone from Rolling Stone to Pitchfork, the Detroit Free Press and Waco’s own Tribune-Herald have paid tribute to the “Queen of Soul” since her death from pancreatic cancer last week at the age of 76.…
(Texas) Looking Back at Baylor: The “Philos” and the “Sophies”
Looking Back at Baylor: The “Philos” and the “Sophies”
(Texas) Texas Over Time: McLendon Hardware and Higginbotham Hardware Company Building, Waco, TX
Texas Over Time: McLendon Hardware and Higginbotham Hardware Company Building, Waco, Tx
(Texas) Research Ready: July 2018
Research Ready: July 2018
(A&SCRC) 50 for 50: Numbers 20-17
50 for 50: Numbers 20-17
(ABL) The Literary Network of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Literary Network of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Space to Create (From the 2018 ITS & Libraries Magazine)
A quiet study carrel. An interactive conference room. An active learning classroom. A recording studio. A 3D printer. For today’s faculty and student body, all these share space in the academic sphere. Brian Mathews, in “Encoding Space” writes, “Buildings, especially libraries, are symbolic. They represent the intellectual character and aspirations of a college, university, or community” (Mathews & Soistmann, 2016).…