You could be forgiven for assuming that a collection of 400 works written by 19th century poetesses would encompass a mostly positive worldview. It would even be safe to assume, for example, that the kinds of women who had the educational backgrounds, available leisure time and access to commercial (and private) printers would tend to fill the pages of their…
Category: Digital Collections
(Digital Collections) Expectations for the Freshman Class: An Examination of the Annual Catalogue of 1889-1890
Classes roared back into action last week, and the campus of Baylor University is once again full of vitality, excitement, confusion and triumph – and that’s just what’s involved with trying to find a parking space near the library. But seriously, we’re excited to have students back, as it’s their passion for learning that makes this beautiful campus come alive…
(Digital Collections) Guest Post: The Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan by Stephen Bolech
This week’s post comes courtesy our Audiovisual Digitization Specialist, Stephen Bolech. In his work to save the recorded materials in Baylor’s collections, Stephen has kept up to speed on standards and practices in the field. This post gives information on one of the most important, recent publications from the Library of Congress. Take it away, Stephen! I know Eric has…
(Digital Collections) “There’s No Hiding Place Down Here” – Confronting the Challenging Content in Our Collections
The Digital Projects Group serves as the central source for digitizing materials from Baylor’s special collections libraries and other on-campus institutions. This puts us in the unique – and sometimes difficult – position of passing materials through our workflow that contain challenging and, occasionally, blatantly offensive content. In many instances, that content passes through the hands of our student workers…
(Digital Collections) On A (Little Blue Bird’s) Wing and a Prayer: Announcing the @GWTruettSermons Twitter Account!
This is the third and final installment in a special three-part blog series on the project to digitize and present online the final sermons of George W. Truett (1867-1944), noted pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas and namesake of Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary. Read Part I here and Part II here. Over the past two weeks,…
(Digital Collections) The Power Behind the Call: Examining the Rhetorical and Presentation Styles of G.W. Truett’s Sermons
This is the second installment in a special three-part blog series on the project to digitize and present online the final sermons of George W. Truett (1867-1944), noted pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas and namesake of Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary. Read the previous installment here. The human voice is a powerful medium, surpassing the printed…
(Digital Collections) How A Depression-Era Huckster’s Radio Station Brought God’s Word to Mexico – and Beyond – Via George W. Truett
This is the first installment in a special three-part blog series on the project to digitize and present online the final sermons of George W. Truett (1867-1944), noted pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas and namesake of Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary. One of the most interesting examples of God’s ability to use anyone – or anything…
(Digital Collections) Announcing A Trifecta of Upcoming Truett Posts
On most Thursdays, you expect to see a piping hot post from this blog delivered to your inbox or RSS reader. But this week, we’re going to do a brief tease for an upcoming three-part blog series centered around one of our most interesting, exciting and potentially soul-saving collections yet! George W. Truett’s name is familiar to the Baylor family,…
(Digital Collections) “A University’s Reach Should Exceed Its Grasp, Or What’s An Architect’s Rendering For?” (With Apologies to Robert Browning)
The history of any institution with as storied a history as Baylor’s is bound to be marked with moments when optimism outpaces reality. For every Baylor Stadium wrought out of sheer will – and two bowl games and a Heisman Trophy – on the banks of the Brazos River there are a dozen dreams unrealized of buildings, memorials and embellishments…
(Digital Collections) “What’s Past Is Prologue” – Connecting Incoming Freshmen With Campus History at Summer Orientation
The month of June is reserved for welcoming the newest class of Freshmen into the Baylor family. For the second year in a row, the traditional Dr Pepper Hour mixer – held on the second day of orientation – was hosted by the university libraries in the Albritton Foyer of Moody Memorial Library. This year, the Digital Projects Group made…