When we started this blog way back in 2011, we never could have guessed just how far it would go. From that first post about our “War of the Rebellion Atlas” maps being used by the U.S. Marine Corps to our coverage of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project, the hidden stories in our archival…
Category: DPG News
State of the Union for the State of the Art: An Update from the Riley Digitization Center
They say life has only two constants: death and taxes. But sometimes “They” forget to add the other immutable law of the universe: change. In any system, there is no such thing as complete static, total immobility, immutability. There’s always some change at work, even if it’s on a molecular level, and given enough time,…
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…
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…
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…
Reflecting on 10 Years in Leadership: A DPG Exit Interview with Dean of Libraries Pattie Orr
When I sat down this past March with Dean of Libraries and Vice President for Information Technology Services Pattie Orr, we were in her office in Moody Memorial Library, surrounded by ten years’ worth of mementos both personal and professional. A construction helmet from the ceremonial groundbreaking for McLane Stadium. A print of a sheet…
Announcing the New Look of Our Digital Collections Homepage!
If you visited our homepage, say, any time prior to earlier this morning, it would have looked like this: Serviceable, effective, longer than a 4:00 PM Friday staff meeting: you remember how that felt, right? Well, we’re proud to announce that, as of today, the homepage has gotten a much-needed refresh! Thanks to the…
Spring Break, Spring Cleaning!
Since this week is Spring Break here on the beautiful campus of Baylor University, we’re not going to post a full-on blog today. Instead, we hope you’ll enjoy two “spring cleaning” items of note! 1. We changed the look of our site to give it a fresh appearance for a new season. We’ve been at…
This Just In! A Quick Look at the DPG in the News So Far This Year
Just a quick post this week to update you all on a couple of the places the DPG and the Digital Collections have been popping up in the media over the past couple of months. We’re always grateful for our work to be featured in any potential arena – digital, broadcast or print – and…
This Train is Bound for D.C.: The Smithsonian-Baylor Digital Projects Group Black Gospel Collaboration Confirmed!
Some big news regarding the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project was made official this weekend via the social media of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC): the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project (BGMRP), managed and maintained by our own Digital Projects Group, will become part of the permanent collection…
An Update on the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project
If you’ve been reading the local newspapers of late – the Waco Tribune-Herald and our on-campus daily, the Baylor Lariat – you’ve seen Baylor’s Black Gospel Music Restoration Project (BGMRP) get some generous front-page coverage. This publicity has centered around last week’s Pruit Symposium, a two-day affair held at Truett Seminary celebrating the project and…
Let’s Get To Know One Another, Shall We?
Thanks to a hallway conversation with our new metadata librarian, Kara Scott, I found out today that we have a couple of loyal readers from the University of Richmond. And that got me to thinking: out here in Waco, Texas, we’re excited to put new content into the realm of digital collections scholarship, but so…