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 […]
Parley P. Pratt and the San Francisco Press, 1851 to 1855
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 […]
BYU Student Life: 1985-2000
Brian S. Shull and Natalie Clark Fisher with Professor J. Gordon Daines III, University Archives The journey Brian and I started in February later became something neither one of us had expected. When we first wrote the proposal for this project, we assumed we would have no trouble finding sources to complete our research. The opposite was […]
A Practical Aid to Board Attachment for Book Conservators
Emily E. Porritt and Professor Pamela Barrios, Conservation Laboratory, Harold B. Lee Library Currently, there is a lack of aides for book conservators to use during the decision making process of conserving bound materials, or books. A practical aid for the decision making process should first help conservators identify the way the book was bound. Second, […]
HBLL Honor Code Policy Enforcement Trainings
Jenna Furch and Professor Quinn Galbraith, HBLL Human Resource Training and Development Manager The wonderful atmosphere at BYU has attracted and impressed several of its visitors. I believe most people would agree that a large part of this great atmosphere is due to the University’s Honor Code. Because the Harold B. Lee Library (HBLL) serves at […]
Photographing and Digitizing Argentine Church History. Project ID: 105490
Aaron Disbrow and Dr. Mark Grover, University Libraries There is an immense amount of church history throughout the world that is unknown to many of us. It was our intent and purpose in this project to aid the dispersion of this history throughout the church. Through Professor Mark Grover we were introduced to Nestor Curbelo, […]
Book and Paper Conservation
Annette Steele and Professor Mark B. Pollei, Conservation Lab, Harold B. Lee Library The two week course at the American Academy of Bookbinding at Telluride, Colorado was extremely enlightening and crucial to my study of the conservation of pre-nineteenth century books and papers. Armed with research and four books in need of treatment I attended […]