Month: August 2018

Student Spotlight: Lynneth Miller (From the 2018 ITS & Libraries Magazine)

Lynneth Miller graduated with a doctorate in history this Spring. During her four years at Baylor she served on the Libraries/ITS Student Advisory Committee (LITSSAC) as a representative from the Graduate School. In this interview, she shares her experiences on the committee and how it helped her better understand the work of the University Libraries and ITS. What drew you…

Faculty and Staff Spotlights (From the 2018 ITS & Libraries Magazine)

Faculty Spotlight: Joshua Been Joshua Been is an assistant librarian and digital scholarship librarian. He coordinates library efforts around digital scholarship, which allows him to collaborate with library and other campus faculty partners to carry out innovative data-related projects. What drew you to the Baylor Libraries? For about a decade, I provided academic data-focused research support as a librarian, while…

Moody 104 Active Learning Lab: A Place for ALL Disciplines (From the 2018 ITS & Libraries Magazine)

When Moody Memorial Library opened in 1968, it served a variety of needs, chief among them being space for an expanding collection and to address a lack of study space for students. Four floors of stacks, carrels, classrooms and study spaces came online that fall and the library quickly become the hub of academic life on campus. But just as…

Back and Better Than Ever: An Update on Summer 2018 Renovations in Moody and Jones

Today marks the start of the Fall 2018 semester, and the University Libraries are celebrating with a whole slate of updated physical spaces for our faculty, students and staff to utilize all year long. Moody 104 Active Learning Lab (ALL) We’ve been updating our readers on the process of creating the Active Learning Lab (ALL) all spring and summer, so…