Every year, the Society of American Archivists sponsors Ask an Archivist Day, a chance for people in the archival profession to answer questions generated by the public. This year, we asked our archivists in the Baylor Libraries to answer from a range of questions related to their work. Their answers are below! What is the most underrated or unexplored archival…
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Welcome to Fall 2025, Baylor Faculty!
The Libraries have been hard at work all summer, and we are eager to present new programming, new spaces, and tons of updates as you prepare for the start of fall classes. Let’s jump right in! Pathways: Your On-Ramp to Creativity in Making and Media! Starting this Fall, all users of the Makerspace and Creative Media resources are required to…
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.…
Out of the Pew Backs and Onto the Web: Digitizing 50 Unique Hymnals for Online Access
This post was written by Jon Snyder, Access Services Coordinator with the Arts & Special Collections Research Center. Hymnals and hymnbooks are intertwined with the history of church music going back to early printing. They’ve been housed in the pew racks of churches in one manner or another for centuries, in addition to smaller books intended for personal use carried…
Baylor Website Maintenance to Impact Access to Online Library Resources
Tonight at 9:00 p.m. CST, the Baylor website (baylor.edu) will undergo maintenance and all baylor.edu-based web resources will be offline. Virtual off-campus visitors to baylor.edu will receive a maintenance message featuring links to important campus resources that are hosted beyond Baylor’s web domain. However, students, faculty, and staff using AirBear or the Baylor campus wired network will receive an error…
(A&SCRC) Museum Studies Students Present Banned Books Week 2021
Museum Studies Students Present : Banned Books Week 2021
Waco History’s “Waco Founding: Your Hunt, Your History” Brings Competition, Education to Downtown Waco
On August 28th, launching from the Downtown Farmers’ Market, forty-one teams scoured downtown Waco solving clues and completing challenges that came with the inaugural Waco History Hunt. This edition on Waco’s founding took the 131 participants to the Waco History sites of Waco Indian Village, Fort Fisher, Waco Village, Jacob de Cordova, Chisholm Trail, Waco Examiner, New Hope Baptist Church,…
Sha Towers and Ellen Filgo Share Insights in Liaison Librarianship Success
Associate librarian and director of Liaison Program, Ellen Hampton Filgo, and associate dean of Research and Engagement and librarian, Sha Towers don’t just work with books, they write them too. Filgo and Towers, both longtime employees of Baylor Libraries, are co-authors of the new book, Liaison Engagement Success: A Practical Guide for Librarians (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021). The book,…
Mayor of Fano, Italy Surprises Armstrong Browning Library Fano Club
Massimo Seri, mayor of Fano, Italy, was a surprise guest at this year’s annual meeting of the Armstrong Browning Library’s Fano Club on Saturday, May 15. Seri joined the virtual meeting from the Museo Archeologico e Pinacoteca del Palazzo Malatestiano in Fano which houses Guercino’s painting, The Guardian Angel, that inspired Robert Browning’s poem, “The Guardian Angel — A Picture…
Baylor Libraries Aid Waco’s Coronavirus Fight by 3D Printing Devices for Family Health Clinic
For medical professionals working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, personal protective equipment (PPE) is a necessary but sometimes uncomfortable tool in the fight to stay healthy. Now, thanks to the resources of the Baylor University Libraries, health care professionals at Family Health Center Waco received 550 3D printed surgical mask tension-relief bands produced on equipment from the…