This post was written by music librarian Bethany Stewart, Ph.D. In your first Fall semester foray to Moody Memorial Library’s third floor, you may notice a new tenant: a large and unusually shaped keyboard instrument. In short, our new resident wooden dinosaur is a square grand piano—which yes, is in fact rectangular and not new at all—built in 1880 and…
Month: August 2024
(BCPM) My Transformative Internship at the Poage Library
This blog post was written by Toyosi Stephen Adedara, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the 2024 Dowdy Summer Intern. My Dowdy summer internship experience at the Poage Library humbled me. Before this summer, I had always thought of libraries as mere repositories for books and documents. However, my time at Poage taught me that…
Unlocking History: Highlighting World War II Primary Sources in Baylor Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives
Collaborative writing project by Sinai Wood, Bethany Stewart, Elizabeth Rivera, Sylvia Hernandez, and Beth Farwell This summer marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the pivotal moment in the Second World War when Allied forces launched their invasion on the beaches of Normandy and thus opened a crucial front in Western Europe which eventually allowed Allied troops to liberate occupied territories.…