Ellie Vance and Thom K. Edlund My summer in Moscow was amazing, but not what I expected it to be. Rather, it was filled with unexpected but wonderful surprises and changes along the way. The original plan was to secure an internship in a Moscow archive in order to learn more about how archive systems […]
Prejudice Against Religion in Japan -And its influence on Proselytism Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-
Shawna M. Lawlor, Dainan Skeem, L. Tom Perry Special Collections in the Harold B. Lee Library Introduction Despite missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints sharing the Gospel in Japan since 1901, its membership reaches only a little over 128,000, which is approximately one in every 1000 people living in Japan. There have […]
Impact of a Psychology of Gender Course on Student Attitudes
Charles Dale Flint and Emily Darowski, Harold B. Lee Library Introduction Ambivalent sexism is present in U.S. university students (Chrisler, Gorman, Marvan, & Johnston-Robledo, 2013) and is a combination of both hostile sexism (a direct antipathy towards woman) and benevolent sexism (seemingly positive beliefs and actions based on gender stereotypes; Glick & Fiske, 1996). Ambivalent […]
The Photo Vision: Modern Cliché-Verre
Jacqueline Camacho, Christiane Ramsey, Harold B. Lee Library On May 24, 2018 I arrived in Reykjavik, Iceland after two day of travel. Our first day composed of exploring the city, learning the history of Iceland, and of course trying to stay awake to adjust to the time change. The next day was when I started to […]
The Prevalence and Effect of Gamification in Scottish Museums
Carol Allred and Dr. John Murphy, Harold B. Lee Library Since their western beginnings in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the role that museums have played in society have changed. Early museums, like the Louvre in Paris and the British Museum in London, were initially galleries that were open weekly to the public. They primarily […]
IAML and IMS Conference Presentations
PI: David Day Evaluation of Academic Objectives The grant funding enabled preparation of conference presentations by three BYU students given at the joint meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries and International Musicological Society held in New York City June 21st through 26th, 2015. The three students, Benjamin Bird, Andrew Neumayer, and Rosemary Norton […]
Rediscovering the Mormon Influence on Art of Comics
Baird, Heatherand Trevor Alvord, Harold B. Lee Library The purpose of this project is twofold. First, I wanted to learn more about the influence of Mormonism on the world of Comics and create a way to share this knowledge with the larger Mormon community. Second, I wanted to better understand the culture surrounding Comics in […]
Conservation Chemistry Course
Kylie Ladd and Professor Mark Pollei, Conservation Department HBLL For my ORCA grant project, I enrolled in and completed a course called “Chemistry for Conservators”, offered by correspondence through International Academic Projects. The course provided me with good manuals and resources and taught me how chemistry applies to the field of conservation. The course was four […]
Conservation and Design of Fine Leather Bindings
Thomas Gappmayer For my 2010-‐2011 ORCA Project, I studied the leather book binding for use in both design binding (building new books) and conservation binding (restoring old books) applications. Over the course of the project, I was able to complete fully complete five of the six books I originally intended to complete. The sixth book […]
Motivating Millennials: Improving Practices in Recruiting, Retaining, and Motivating Younger Library Staff
Sara Diane Smith and Professor Quinn Galbraith, HBLL Human Resources The purpose of this project was to explore generational differences in the library workplace through a literature review, through studying results from national workplace surveys, and through analyzing the results of past surveys given to student employees at the Harold B. Lee Library. As part of […]