Making Our Mark(ers): The DPG’s 2015 in Review

Well, another year of saving the world one scan at a time is in the books, and 2015 was a doozy for all of us at the Digital Projects Group! But rather than give you a dry recitation of stats, we asked our friends Kara (Baylor’s oh-so-excellent metadata librarian and Friend of the Blog) and…

Memories of Christmases Past: Stories from the Oral History Collection

Christmas is a time for family, celebrating and the making and sharing of memories. Many times, those memories are presented as stories told during family gatherings (sometimes for the hundredth time), and oral traditions are an important part of any get-together. One of our most-used resources is composed almost entirely of personal stories and memories:…

Perfect Delight: The Inaugural Voices & Vinyl Concert!

After months of planning and hours of rehearsal by our friends in the Heavenly Voices Gospel Choir, our Voices & Vinyl concert was held on Thursday, December 3rd in the Moody Memorial Library Allbritton foyer. It was, to be perfectly frank, a complete success from our point of view. A sizable crowd of students, faculty,…