Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections

04/02/2021

Since we started Voices and Vinyl more than 5 years ago, we’ve been blown away by the talent of the students of Heavenly Voices Gospel Choir. This year’s show is no different. Check it out on the Libraries’ YouTube channel at the link below, and have a blessed Easter weekend.

Featuring the vocal talents of the Heavenly Voices Gospel Choir, and presented in support of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project. Recorded live at Ell...

03/29/2021

After a year off due to the realities of COVID-19, we are thrilled to offer the 2021 Voices & Vinyl concert on Facebook and YouTube, this Friday at 2pm. Visit the Baylor Libraries YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmsX2PlhgUIRF9KHl0pdvaQ) or facebook.com/baylorlibraries to see the show, performed by Heavenly Voices Gospel Choir!

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04/18/2019

The 2019 Voices & Vinyl Concert featuring Heavenly Voices Gospel Choir was held on April 15 at 2nd and Clay. This outreach channel of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project aims to give an updated take on the gospel music housed in the BGMRP collection (www.baylor.edu/library/gospel) and features student performers giving their unique spin on songs that have shaped generations.

04/17/2019

This week we celebrated the fourth annual Voices & Vinyl concert with our friends the Heavenly Voices Gospel Choir! You can view the entire concert on our Baylor Libraries YouTube channel. We are so grateful to HV, the Waco community and the family for their support of this incredible event.

The fourth annual Voices & Vinyl Concert - featuring Heavenly Voices Gospel Choir - recorded live at 2nd & Clay on April 15, 2019. The concert is part of the...

04/08/2019

When history repeats itself - like 2005 and 2012, for example - you'll find the evidence in our Digital Collections. These "Baylor Lariat" front pages from our Baylor Lady Bear Basketball's previous championship years are part of the "Lariat" archive, available online at http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/lariat. Relive the road to those celebrations - and every other event in Baylor history dating back to 1900 - in this extensive archive. Sic 'em, Lady Bears!

04/04/2019

We join the Baylor University community in mourning the passing of Dr. Wood. We are honored to host a digital version of his research files in the BU Libraries Digital Collections, which you can access here: http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/cs-vert.

https://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=208463

WACO, Texas (April 2, 2019) – Baylor University is mourning the passing of James E. Wood Jr., Ph.D., a world-renowned expert on religious liberty and church-state and inaugural director of Baylor University’s J.M. Dawson Center for Church-State Studies. Dr. Wood died March 24 at the age of 96.

01/23/2019

The good people at KXXV Central Texas News Now did a great story on the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project! Check it out here:

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have A Dream" speech is archived in the King Library in Atlanta.

11/09/2018

Shout out to The Baylor Lariat for this great write-up about the work we do to preserve Baylor history! https://baylorlariat.com/2018/11/08/baylor-digitizes-and-preserves-history/

08/27/2018

We're paying tribute to the life of Aretha Franklin with our latest blog post. Learn more about her connection to our Black Gospel Music Restoration Project, both through her own work and that of her father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin.

Celebrating Aretha Franklin Date August 27, 2018Posted by Eric Ames Comments0 Cover of Aretha Franklin’s 1972 album “Amazing Grace,” from the collection of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project. All rights reserved, Atlantic Records (1972) The passing of legendary artist Aretha Franklin h...

08/16/2018

The team at the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project joins with the outpouring of love and remembrances for the "Queen of Soul," Aretha Franklin, who passed away today at the age of 76. Here's one of our favorite covers of an Aretha album, the 1987 two-record set, "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism."

07/06/2018

Time is running out to see the physical Visions of Rapture exhibit, on display in Moody Memorial Library at Baylor University Libraries, but don't worry! You can see the digital version online anytime at http://blogs.baylor.edu/digitalcollections/2018/04/24/visions-of-rapture-2018-the-online-exhibit/.

Visions of Rapture 2018: The Online Exhibit Date April 24, 2018Posted by Eric Ames Comments2 The third annual Visions of Rapture exhibit celebrates the music from Baylor’s Black Gospel Music Restoration Project, specifically the 45 rpm discs that were released without cover art during their origin...