By Anna Neatrour One of the hazards of working on metadata for digital collections is getting distracted by the items you are describing, and spending more time than you should reading them! I was working on the metadata for the Carbon County Oral History collection some time...

By 1893, more than 50 newspapers were being published in Utah Territory. On December 17 of that year, two dozen publishers and editors gathered in Lehi to form a new organization: a cooperative body that would share information, set standards for journalism, and advocate for...

“The nucleus of the Joy cell is buoyant and it can transfer invisibly into other cells without realization by the host. This is a most desirous outcome…The presence of other positive cells (Trust, Love, Curiosity, and Work) can greatly influence the production and hardiness of...

Originally published in Geneva in 1634, this revised edition includes the word “Clavis” as the beginning of its title. The title translated into English reads: Nomenclature of Proper Names in the Historical Work of Jacques Auguste de Thou. Thou (1553-1617) was a historian whose fame...

“…the function of our Art is to put before our eyes…representation of anything which the human mind can split up and divide into a definite number of different parts, not infinitesimally small, which frequently recur in exactly the same form to play a part in...

The Utah Digital Newspapers (UDN) project is one of the longest running state-wide digital newspaper repositories in the United States. UDN started in in 2001 with a Library Services and Technology (LSTA) research and development grant to digitize 30,000 pages from the Vernal Express, Grand...