Author: Eric Ames

Assistant Director for Marketing & Communication, Libraries and ITS and adjunct lecturer in Department of Museum Studies, Baylor University.

Oppression, Visualized: New Videos Added to the Keston Digital Collection

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One of our most challenging collections is housed at the Keston Center for Religion, Politics and Society. Containing materials related to religious persecution in Communist countries – most notably the former Soviet Union – the Keston Digital Collection features items ranging from anti-American propaganda posters to photographs, brochures, and other ephemera. It is an important and difficult collection to wrestle…

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By the Numbers: Updates to the Digital Collections, 2019-Present

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The creation and growth of digital collections always seems to move in fits and starts. That often means months of behind-the-scenes effort digitizing items, describing them, preserving their high-resolution master files, and – finally – adding them to the access system. For us, that can involve working through hundreds of Black gospel music recordings, dozens of manuscripts for a famous…

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(LATS) A (3D) Model Collaboration: The Pat Neff Hall Frieze Project

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  When Pat Neff Hall was dedicated on February 1, 1940, it became an instant embodiment of Baylor’s character: proud, faithful, timeless, and with its own unique style. From its signature dome – which was covered in gold leaf in 2000 – to the passages of scripture chiseled into its exterior friezes, PNH is an iconic piece of Baylor’s built…

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