Moody 104 Renovations Begin Today (March 26th), Expected to Last Several Months
Category: Announcements
“Bring Back the Light” Event at Moody Memorial Library Kicks Off Year-Long 50th Anniversary Celebration
Wednesday, January 18, 2018 marked a major milestone in the life of Moody Memorial Library. That night, the upper-level lights of the building’s facade – which had been dark for decades – were illuminated again after a donor-funded project installed new LED fixtures into the 50-year-old recesses on the historic building’s roof. The event, dubbed “Bring Back the Light,” was…
Library Event: Open Access Week 2017
What is Open Access Week? Open Access Week is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research, including access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public. This year Baylor University is highlighting how Open Data can be used in research. The national theme for Open Access…
Library Event: “Education Goes to War,” September 14 in Cashion Academic Center
United States Air Force Colonel (Retired) Dr. William A. Mitchell is a man who has seen the kinds of extremes our world has to offer, from the deserts of Iraq to the classrooms of Central Texas. His experiences in pursuit of the highest ideals of education in some of the most dangerous parts of our world are the background material…
The Libraries’ Best Stories, All In One Place
A library’s collections are more than just books on shelves or files in a database: they are the “raw stuff” of history, the documentation of our cultural memory, the stories that define humanity. And in a library system with more than 170 years’ worth of collecting history, you will find countless stories to tell. About the ways our resources support…
(Digital Collections) Spring Break, Spring Cleaning!
Since this week is Spring Break here on the beautiful campus of Baylor University, we’re not going to post a full-on blog today. Instead, we hope you’ll enjoy two “spring cleaning” items of note! 1. We changed the look of our site to give it a fresh appearance for a new season. We’ve been at this whole “blogging about digital…
(Digital Collections) Where The Bears Made Their Dens Back Then: A Multimedia Visualization of Baylor Student Housing From 1913-1914
Welcome back to a new year and a new post here at the Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections blog! We’re excited to be back on campus and look forward to another year of providing you with unique insights into our ever-growing array of digital collections. This week, we’re taking a multimedia look at a pair of resources related to Baylor…
(Digital Collections) Let’s Get To Know One Another, Shall We?
Thanks to a hallway conversation with our new metadata librarian, Kara Scott, I found out today that we have a couple of loyal readers from the University of Richmond. And that got me to thinking: out here in Waco, Texas, we’re excited to put new content into the realm of digital collections scholarship, but so often we don’t know much…