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Read More NewsData Privacy Week is an annual expanded effort from Data Privacy Day -- taking place from January 27 - 31, 2025. The goal of Data Privacy Week is to spread awareness about online privacy among individuals and organizations.
On February 7-8, 2025, Baylor’s Armstrong Browning Library & Museum will host the first of a two-part symposium, “Cultures of Correspondence,” which will explore the curation and maintenance of letters in library archives and digital collections, the theory and practice of editing letters in print and digital formats, the use of letters in scholarly research and publications, and pedagogical approaches to letters in the classroom. The second part of the symposium will be hosted by Texas A&M University on February 14-15, 2025. Each location will feature keynotes and panels that are accessible onsite and via Zoom Webinar. The symposium is free and open to the public with registration.
The Baylor Libraries welcome retired Professor of Christian Ministry and Church Music, Dr. Terry York, for the next Readers Meets the Author Series session on Tuesday, February 4, 2025. The event will dive into his newly published, “Kurt Kaiser: Icon and Conscience of Contemporary Christian Music”, which explores the life of Kurt Kaiser, worship leader, songwriter, American contemporary church music composer, and arranger. The event will take place in the Schumacher Flex Commons in Moody Memorial Library from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. and will include interviewer Professor Bob Darden, a retired Professor of Journalism. A reception with light refreshments and book signing will follow the conversation. Books will be available for purchase from Baylor University Press. CAE credit is available for Baylor undergraduates who attend in person.
Baylor University has been awarded a $2.48 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative (RCII) to support a major expansion of the Black Gospel Archive (BGA) at Baylor University Libraries.