Banned Books Week : Museum Studies Student Posts : 2

Welcome to our second post from the Museum Studies class as they explore Banned Books Week and censorship. If you want to review their assignment or learn more about Banned Books week, please see Prof. Julie Holcomb’s recent post: Banned Books Week Introduction by Makayla Jenkins Burned by Ellen Hopkins “I felt angry, frustrated. I…

Banned Books Week : Museum Studies Student Posts : 1

Welcome to our first post from the Museum Studies class as they explore Banned Books Week and censorship. If you want to review their assignment or learn more about Banned Books week, please see Prof. Julie Holcomb’s recent post: Banned Books Week Introduction by Ryan Roper 1984 by George Orwell “What would Big Brother do?”…

Museum Studies Students Present : Banned Books Week 2021

Each year, we have celebrated our freedom to read during Banned Books Week. This year we are excited to turn over the blog to our colleague Prof. Julie Holcomb and her students for the week. Many thanks to all of them for their hard work and inspiring words. Beth Farwell Introduction by Prof. Julie Holcomb…

Research Center Update 2020-21

The Arts and Special Collections Research Center is celebrating its first year of integration between the Special Collections and Fine Arts teams. As you might guess, this has been a challenging year with numerous changes. As the start of fall semester comes into view, I thought it would be an excellent time to share some…

Research Inspiration : Women are center stage in Black Gospel history

Welcome to our inaugural post of the Research Inspiration Series. This series will highlight Baylor University faculty recommendations for research questions or areas of inquiry in our collections. We are honored to partner with a few of our women faculty members from the Baylor School of Music to celebrate Women’s History Month and investigate research…

RaRe OnLinE : Snapshots of a Successful Shift

Spring 2020: Celebrating a year since Baylor acquired The Saint John’s Bible Heritage Edition, we scheduled several opportunities with community outreach and an exciting on-campus event with one of the Bible’s artists. Along with the rest of the world, our plans came to a screeching halt. We did not pause for too long.  Inspired by…

Banned Books Week 2020

Banned Books Week (September 27 – October 3, 2020) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. It is a week to consider the impact of censorship and what it means to hold intellectual freedoms. Often the word ‘banned’ brings up images of Europe during the early to mid-1900s with Nazi book burnings and…

Moody Special Collections Updates – Spring/Summer 2020

Along with others across this ‘big blue marble’, staff from Moody Special Collections spent most of the spring semester researching and finding solutions to the move to an online educational environment. We were pleased with our success in moving our scheduled in person experiences with archives and rare materials into an online assignment. Many thanks…

Printed Words and Benevolent Books

I’ve always been fascinated by the power of the printed word as a communication tool throughout history. Significant research is available on this topic; however, I encourage you to dip into original, primary resources to add your own personal knowledge and beliefs to create new insight. You can still research these topics online with an…

We Are Here!

The Central Libraries Special Collections are still here! Not on site, but working on behind-the-scenes activities like compiling statistics, building out new context for our incredible collections, and more! Just think of us as being… well, you know…just in the next room! We miss seeing you at the library, but we’ve pulled together some of…