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 […]
British Sociopolitical Periodicals Digital Project
Annalaisa Plessinger and Dr. Maggie Kopp, University Libraries The L. Tom Perry Special Collections department of the library hosts many precious collections from rare books to periodicals that benefit the research and understanding of countless scholars. However, periodicals have not received the same attention as books; books are being uploaded onto the Internet Archive for […]
William E. Gates Mesoamerican Collection
Connie Lamb, Public Services Introduction The title of the MEG grant that I received beginning January 2011 is the “William E. Gates Mesoamerican Collection”. The purpose of the grant was to hire a student to go through the Gates Collection and create a complete and accurate register (finding aid) to these materials. Gates (1863-1940) was […]
Transformation of the Storyteller’s Identity and Role Through the American Storytelling Movement
Rachel Parkinson and Dr. Marsha Broadway, Harold B. Lee Library Juvenile Literature Librarian Twenty-four storytellers and prominent people involved in the American storytelling movement were interviewed to gather information on the following research question: How has the American storytelling movement changed the identity and role of the storyteller? Storytelling seems as definable as the taste […]
Utah’s Ethnic and Non-English Newspapers
Leif Olsen and Professor Scott Duvall, Special Collections and Manuscripts, Harold B. Lee Library At a Mexican restaurant in Salt Lake City, I came across an issue of La Prensa, a Spanish-language newspaper published in Utah. It covered a variety of issues, including immigrant fraud, the top ten Latin music hits, and soccer. I wondered […]