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Ouachita Riley-Hickingbotham Library's Special Collections Earns National Award, Trennis Henderson
Ouachita Riley-Hickingbotham Library's Special Collections Earns National Award, Trennis Henderson
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The Arkansas Baptist History Collection of Ouachita Baptist University’s Riley-Hickingbotham Library Archives and Special Collections has been honored with the Baptist History and Heritage Society’s 2017 Davis C. Woolley Award for Outstanding Achievement in Assessing and Preserving Baptist History.
The national award honors the work of Dr. Wendy Richter, Ouachita professor and archivist, and her staff who coordinated the Special Collections project. The award was announced recently at the annual conference of the Baptist History and Heritage Society, hosted by First Baptist Church of Augusta, Ga., in partnership with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Georgia.
“It is indeed an honor …
Ouachita Special Collections Opening Honors Hickey, Holley And Knight, Trennis Henderson, Rachel Gaddis
Ouachita Special Collections Opening Honors Hickey, Holley And Knight, Trennis Henderson, Rachel Gaddis
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Ouachita Special Collections Opening Will Honor Hickey, Holley And Knight March 3, Rachel Gaddis, Ouachita News Bureau
Ouachita Special Collections Opening Will Honor Hickey, Holley And Knight March 3, Rachel Gaddis, Ouachita News Bureau
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Faith And Literature: A Look At Book Censorship, Laura Cox
Faith And Literature: A Look At Book Censorship, Laura Cox
Honors Theses
For centuries, society has debated the issue of book censorship. Before Johannes Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1455, the burning of hand-scribed books destroyed limited copies and guaranteed they would not be read. With the printing press, books could be produced in greater numbers; yet, printed speech was still a commodity that could be controlled. In 1517, Pope Leo X condemned Martin Luther's Ninety Five Theses, an early example of religious censorship of materials deemed dangerous or subversive. Political censorship quickly followed when Emperor Charles V issued the Edict ofWorms, containing a "Law ofPrinting" which banned the printing, copying, …
A Bibliography For A Boys' Training School, Wanda Faye Williams
A Bibliography For A Boys' Training School, Wanda Faye Williams
Honors Theses
My special studies for the honors program mainly consisted of compiling a bibliography for a boys' training school. However, I did research involving the nature of training schools. Also, I spoke with Miss Shinn, who is the director of institutional libraries in Arkansas. She informed me that the training schools' libraries are to be approved under the same standards as school libraries. The services extended beyond books as half of this year's budget was spent on audio-visual equipment.
According to ALA school media standards, a small library should consist of at least 6000 volumes. My bibliography is not that extensive, …
Today's Elementary School Library, Sharon Gail Floyd
Today's Elementary School Library, Sharon Gail Floyd
Honors Theses
"A library is a library... A library is a place for books. And Books need people to enjoy them, children to pore over them, to wander through them and wonder, to leaf over them and laugh over them and love them. Teacher need to know them to delight in them, and to want to share them. Librarians who are not merely the keepers by the ambassadors of books, their representatives, their introducers, their friends and advocates."
The above statement is one which this paper will attempt to prove is very correct. One of the most stimulating and interesting developments in …