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Bruce Feiler Signed As 2006 Featured Author volume 14 | no. 1 | fall 2006 Ferguson-Clark Author Lecture: Bruce Feiler Signed as 2006 Featured Author At a time when the world is asking, “Can the religions get along?,” best-selling author Bruce Feiler offers a powerful interfaith message and a hopeful vision for peace and reconciliation. The Libraries of Baylor University are pleased to present Feiler as the featured speaker of the 2006 Ferguson-Clark Author Lecture. The event will take place on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006, at 7:30 p.m. at Waco Hall. A native of Savannah, Ga., Feiler is an award-winning journalist who has traveled to over 60 countries on five continents to immerse himself in different cultures. The result is numerous acclaimed books that take readers along on his fascinating adventures and bring other worlds vividly to life. Feiler is the New York Times best-selling author of books such as Walking the Bible: A Journey By Land, Where God Was Born and Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths. In fact, Abraham was featured on the cover of TIME magazine and heralded as “a revolution in thought.” Feiler’s presentation, titled “Can We All Get Along?: Building Bridges contents Among the Religions in the 21st Century,” will shed light on the Central Libraries Changes 2 commonalities between Judaism, Islam and Christianity. In addition to Royce-Darden Digitization Project 2 his books, Feiler is also the writer-presenter of a PBS miniseries and is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio and CNN. From the Dean 2 Hightower Exhibit 3 The Ferguson-Clark Author Lecture was established in 2001 by Baylor Wiki & Blog Tools In Blackboard 3 alumnus Collen Clark in honor of his mother, Carla Sue Ferguson Garrett, a Baylor alumna and member of the libraries’ Board of Advisors. On the Cutting Edge: Author’s Rights 3 Upcoming Events 3 Tickets will be available beginning Sept. 1 by calling 254.710.7249 or online at www.baylor.edu/lib/feilertickets. Group rates will be available. Library Research Workshops 4 Connect w/BU Authors Program 4 -Mary Goolsby, Library Advancement PawPrints Improvements 4 New Resources 4 “Connecting people with ideas in support of teaching, Baylor University Libraries learning, scholarship and academic distinction.” One Bear Place #97148 Waco, TX 76798-7148 Central Libraries Change and Rearrange to Improve Services Every summer, the Central Libraries make changes to prepare for the forthcoming academic year. The twin goals of improving services and utilizing staff more efficiently were the motivation for this summer’s significant changes. Some collections are in new locations and some service points merged. Collections that have moved: • General collection books with a “Z” call number have moved to the Garden Level of Moody Library. • Government documents have moved to the 1st floor of Jones Library. • Government document reference materials and most science and engineering reference materials have been integrated into the general reference collection on the 1st floor of Jones Library. • Recent science and engineering periodicals are now shelved with earlier, bound volumes in the compact shelving on the 2nd floor of Jones Library. • The Zeta Children and Young Adult Collection has moved to the Garden Level of Moody Library. Services that have moved: • Government documents, science, engineering, social science and humanities reference services have been combined into one Information Desk on the 1st floor of Jones Library. All reference personnel are now housed together in offices on the 1st floor of Jones Library. • Organizationally, Interlibrary Services has merged with Circulation Services to form the Access Services Unit. In-person help with interlibrary service issues can now be found at the Main Circulation Desk on the 1st floor of Moody Library. • Library Advancement and Special Projects moved to the 2nd floor of Jones Library. -Jeff Steely, Library Client Services Royce-Darden Digitization Project Moves Forward Bob Darden, a journalism professor and former Associates, LLC, and president of The Royce Funds. Baylor and placed on the Baylor University gospel music editor for Billboard magazine, website. Within the first few days, the university knew that each day a piece of the history Though unfamiliar with Baylor, he was motivated received a number of very strong applications. of black gospel music was slipping away. to support the project because he recognized the need and was impressed by Darden’s The audio engineer will be responsible for the Concerned for the fate of this music, Darden zeal. He wanted to know what could be done. transfer/digitization of all recorded materials wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times (78s, LPs, 45s, cassettes), and will work with in February 2005 about how gospel music has Darden submitted a proposal to Royce that the cataloguer (a second position that will influenced today’s contemporary hits, how new involved not only digitizing the music but also be created and advertised later this fall) to gospel releases sell millions of copies today and preserving ephemera like photos, liner notes, record and organize all pertinent information. how, when he plays snippets of the old music during record jackets and other accompanying material. radio interviews, the public clamors for more. On Jan. 1, 2006, Royce approved the proposal While the formal acquisition process will not and pledged $350,000 to support the project, now begin until the engineer has been hired, the “It would be more than a cultural disaster to forever known as the Royce-Darden Digitization Project in project is already receiving much-needed lose this music,” Darden wrote. “It would be a sin.” honor of both Charles Royce and Robert Darden. donations of black gospel 78s, LPs, 45s, sheet music, magazines and photographs. Such passion inspired Charles Royce, a businessman During August, a notice outlining the from Connecticut, to call Darden. Royce is job requirements for the position of audio If you have something you would like to donate, president and chief investment officer of Royce & engineer for the project was approved by please contact Robert Darden at 254.752.1468. From the Dean I hope that you will mark your calendars and make plans to be with us for the Ferguson-Clark Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 9, in Waco Hall. In light of current events in the Middle East this will be a very timely lecture by Bruce Feiler. In response to an op-ed piece in the New York Times and his 2004 book People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music, Baylor journalism professor Robert Darden attracted the attention of businessman and philanthropist Charles Royce. The result is a project to digitize this rare and quickly disappearing music. Other stories of note include the opening of the Hightower exhibit in the BCPM in October and an important piece co-authored by Billie Peterson-Lugo and Beth Tice on the current state of scholarly communication - something all faculty will find interesting. Finally, you will want to read the story detailing the moves and rearrangements in the Central Libraries that occurred over the summer to better serve you, our clients. These are but a sample of the interesting and informative articles in this issue of Access. Enjoy! Bill Hair, Interim Dean of Libraries Hightower Exhibit to Open at Poage in October To commemorate the 80th birthday of Judge Jack E. Hightower, the Baylor Collections of Political Materials will open an exhibit about the life of service shared by Jack and Colleen Hightower. Opening on Oct. 7, 2006, in the W. R. Poage Exhibit Gallery, this exhibit will highlight the Judge’s years of public service along with Colleen’s service as a church organist, wife, mother and supporter. Right: Judge Jack E. and Colleen Hightower will be The theme of the exhibit will be “The Hightowers: honored by the Poage Legislative Library where he has Integrity, Justice, Service.” donated his papers and memorabilia. If you would like to participate in honoring the Hightowers, please send a card or letter to the Poage Legislative Library at One Bear Place #97153, Waco, TX 76798-7153. These will be bound into a presentation volume and presented to the Hightowers at the opening of the exhibit. -Ben Rogers, Director of BCPM Wiki and Blog Tools Now Available Within Blackboard The Online Teaching and Learning Services group to the web by using the wiki. Additionally, to have private blogs that only the individual in the Electronic Library has added a wiki tool wikis keep a history of the updates so the student and the course instructor can read and and a blog tool to the suite of tools within Baylor’s members of the team and the instructor can edit as well as a more public blog that can be Blackboard system. Wikis and blogs add more variety see who has contributed to the assignment. read by the entire class. to the types of exercises that instructors can assign. Baylor’s Blackboard wiki is called Teams LX. The Electronic Library is very excited to offer these tools to the Baylor academic community. We A wiki is a collection of websites that is openly A blog, the commonly accepted abbreviation of hope that these tools give faculty more options accessible for viewing and can be edited by Weblog, is a web site that is updated on a regular for class exercises while encouraging better writing anyone or by selected individuals. The term basis and structured in reverse chronological and collaboration for our students in the online comes from the Hawaiian phrase “wiki wiki” order so that the most recent information is listed environment. meaning “rapidly.” A wiki allows instructors to first. Instructors use blogs as an instructional tool create collaborative writing assignments.
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