A Second Helping of Thanksgiving Gratitude Courtesy Rev. Selsus E. Tull
Category: Digital Collections
(Digital Collections) Illustrating a Milestone – 50 Spencer Sheet Music Covers for 50 Percent Online
Illustrating a Milestone: 50 Spencer Sheet Music Covers for 50 Percent Online
(Digital Collections) A Second Helping of Thanksgiving Gratitude Courtesy Rev. Selsus E. Tull
Anyone can post an article about Thanksgiving the week of; what would happen if you got another chance to think about gratitude, thanksgiving and spirituality the week after? To find out, read this guest post by Professional Writing senior Will Overton on the theme of thanksgiving throughout the sermons of Rev. Selsus E. Tull. A Selsus E. Tull Thanksgiving Thanksgiving…
(Digital Collections) Illustrating a Milestone: 50 Spencer Sheet Music Covers for 50 Percent Online
This blog post was written by Baylor Libraries intern Will Overton. Will is a senior professional writing major from Dickinson, TX working in the Office of Marketing Communication for the Libraries and ITS. Music has been a part of American culture since the Colonies were founded hundreds of years ago. Many examples of American sheet music dating all the way…
(Digital Collections) Read All About It – Waco Historic Newspapers Digital Collection Launches
Read All About It: Waco Historic Newspapers Digital Collection Launches
Read All (Digital Collections) About It: Waco Historic Newspapers Digital Collection Launches
Waco’s renaissance as a national name – due largely thanks to our resident “Fixer Uppers” Chip and Joanna Gaines – has done much to elevate the city’s name and reputation in the eyes of a national audience. But for the local audience of the late 1800s and early 1900s, if you wanted to read about the goings-on in “Six Shooter…
(Digital Collections) Feeding an Elephant, One Book at a Time: Supporting the Hathi Trust Digital Library
Modern researchers rely on access to information in a manner that was unthinkable less than a generation ago: the Internet, with its light-speed connection to all the resources of the world’s libraries, archives and cultural heritage institutions. But even with the explosive growth in digital collections there remains an untold number of books and other resources that remain difficult to…
(Digital Collections) Contributing to the Social Welfare History Image Portal at Virginia Commonwealth University
The Frances G. Spencer Collection of American Popular Sheet Music is many things: big, colorful, historically significant and occasionally eye-opening in its imagery and lyrics. And as of this week, you can add another descriptor: a supporter of a project sponsored by the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. The opportunity to support the Social Welfare History Project, which is described on…
(Digital Collections) Our Summer With Gabby: Hosting a Waco ISD Summer Intern
Fans of our Facebook page may recall seeing this photo at the start of the summer: This fresh-faced young lady is Gabriella “Gabby” Hernandez, a rising senior at Waco ISD’s University High School (home of the Trojans) and our 2017 Prosper Waco summer intern here at the Baylor University Libraries! Gabby spent 80 hours with us over the course of…
(Digital Collections) Evangeline’s Windy City Pilgrimage
Sometimes a project comes together after a long, thought-out process. Sometimes it’s serendipity – something you couldn’t plan for just happens and the right things come together. Sometimes it spins organically out of an existing situation, a related set of materials nestled together under a broader umbrella. And sometimes, it’s all of those things … plus, a trip to Chicago,…