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IAML and IMS Conference Presentations

June 29, 2017 by admin

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 […]

Filed Under: HBLL, MEG-2016

Rediscovering the Mormon Influence on Art of Comics

March 22, 2017 by admin

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 […]

Filed Under: HBLL, ORCA-2016

Conservation Chemistry Course

April 7, 2014 by admin

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 […]

Filed Under: HBLL, ORCA-2010

Conservation and Design of Fine Leather Bindings

April 7, 2014 by admin

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 […]

Filed Under: HBLL, ORCA-2010

Motivating Millennials: Improving Practices in Recruiting, Retaining, and Motivating Younger Library Staff

April 2, 2014 by admin

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 […]

Filed Under: HBLL, ORCA-2009

British Sociopolitical Periodicals Digital Project

April 2, 2014 by admin

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 […]

Filed Under: HBLL, ORCA-2009

William E. Gates Mesoamerican Collection

February 20, 2014 by admin

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 […]

Filed Under: HBLL, MEG-2012

Transformation of the Storyteller’s Identity and Role Through the American Storytelling Movement

January 29, 2014 by admin

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 […]

Filed Under: HBLL, ORCA-2001

Utah’s Ethnic and Non-English Newspapers

January 29, 2014 by admin

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 […]

Filed Under: HBLL, ORCA-2001

Parley P. Pratt and the San Francisco Press, 1851 to 1855

January 29, 2014 by admin

Matthew J. Grow and Dr. David J. Whittaker, Harold B. Lee Library Parley P. Pratt served two terms as President of the Mormon Pacific Mission based in San Francisco during the early and mid-1850s. With his vast experience in writing and publishing, he concentrated much of his efforts on spreading the Mormon message through pamphlets […]

Filed Under: HBLL, ORCA-2001

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