For the past two years, I have been working with authors from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealand, and India on a book titled Digital Preservation in Libraries: Preparing for a Sustainable Future. This book, edited by myself and Jessalyn Zoom from the...
It has been a busy few weeks for folks in Digital Library Services! We've had several conferences during the month of October. The first conference, which was fun for me to attend, was Samvera Connect. The University of Utah Marriott Library hosted this national conference,...
Over the past several years, we have had users contact us when they have additional information about an item that could be added to the metadata that is used to discover items in our digital library or if they notice an issue with a particular...
When I moved to Utah from the midwest, I was surprised by the tradition of putting up large letters representing schools on hillsides! For the first day of school at the U, I thought I would showcase a series of photos of the Block U. University...
Helper Journal | 1947-07-24 | Page 2 Every year on July 24th, Utah celebrates Pioneer Day to commemorate the day in 1947 when the pioneers first came into the Salt Lake Valley and declared this as the place that they would call home. We have many...
Over the weekend, I attended Black, White, and Mormon II: A Conference on Race in the LDS Church Since the 1978 Revelation. As part of the conference, a new public history project that the Marriott Library IT and DLS teams have been collaborating on was...
Anna Neatrour and Jeremy Myntti presented at the NISO Open Data Projects virtual conference on June 13, 2018 about the Western Name Authority File (WNAF), an Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS) funded project. Here is the abstract for our presentation: The Western Name Authority File...
Jeremy Myntti (Head of Digital Library Services) and Molly Steed (Moving Image and Sound Archivist) have been awarded the Marriott Library Jumpstart Grant for 2018-2019. This internal grant program was designed to support new original research projects that address challenges in libraries and archives. The...
At the Utah Library Association Annual Conference on May 17, 2018, Jeremy Myntti and Tina Kirkham presented “Hot Type: Digitizing Utah’s Historical Newspapers.” This presentation contained a history of the Utah Digital Newspapers (UDN) Program, and tour of the new https://digitalnewspapers.org/ website, information on how...
One of the things I’ve been working on for the past year is developing support and workflows for digital exhibits in the Marriott Library. My first exposure to digital exhibits was back when I was involved in the Mountain West Digital Library, as part of...