Few buildings on campus are as iconic as Moody Memorial Library, a mid-century marvel anchoring the end of Fountain Mall opposite Pat Neff Hall. Long considered the academic life center of campus, Moody has been home to millions of print volumes, late night study sessions, expert guidance from library faculty and countless hours spent in study carrells. In celebration of…
Category: Feature Stories
A Space to Create (From the 2018 ITS & Libraries Magazine)
A quiet study carrel. An interactive conference room. An active learning classroom. A recording studio. A 3D printer. For today’s faculty and student body, all these share space in the academic sphere. Brian Mathews, in “Encoding Space” writes, “Buildings, especially libraries, are symbolic. They represent the intellectual character and aspirations of a college, university, or community” (Mathews & Soistmann, 2016).…
Student Spotlight: Lynneth Miller (From the 2018 ITS & Libraries Magazine)
Lynneth Miller graduated with a doctorate in history this Spring. During her four years at Baylor she served on the Libraries/ITS Student Advisory Committee (LITSSAC) as a representative from the Graduate School. In this interview, she shares her experiences on the committee and how it helped her better understand the work of the University Libraries and ITS. What drew you…
Faculty and Staff Spotlights (From the 2018 ITS & Libraries Magazine)
Faculty Spotlight: Joshua Been Joshua Been is an assistant librarian and digital scholarship librarian. He coordinates library efforts around digital scholarship, which allows him to collaborate with library and other campus faculty partners to carry out innovative data-related projects. What drew you to the Baylor Libraries? For about a decade, I provided academic data-focused research support as a librarian, while…
Moody 104 Active Learning Lab: A Place for ALL Disciplines (From the 2018 ITS & Libraries Magazine)
When Moody Memorial Library opened in 1968, it served a variety of needs, chief among them being space for an expanding collection and to address a lack of study space for students. Four floors of stacks, carrels, classrooms and study spaces came online that fall and the library quickly become the hub of academic life on campus. But just as…
Welcoming Our Youngest Users – Learning About Libraries with Baylor’s Pre-K Kiddos
Welcoming Our Youngest Users: Learning About Libraries With Baylor’s Pre-K Kiddos
Unfiltered Dedication: The Surprising Story of Moody Memorial Library’s ‘Water Warrior’
The email came to my inbox at 9:21 AM on Monday, December 5th. “I’m thinking 100,000 will be tomorrow or Wednesday depending on how thirsty everyone is,” it said. “SO EXCITING!!!!” It was a message laden with promise, full of hope and all-caps-lock emotion. But it was the parenthetical postscript that told the real story. “(I will be devastated if…
A Revolutionary Century: Researching the 100th Anniversary of the October Revolution
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. October 2017 marks the one-hundred-year anniversary of the October Revolution, which saw the overthrow of the last Russian Tsar and the rise of the Communist movement in…