Since Solphal, the Marriott Library's Digital Asset Management System, is a homegrown system built off of open source tools, we are able to add new features to the user interface as different needs are discovered. One new feature that was recently implemented is a date...
One of my favorite use cases for digital libraries is with family history. A few days ago, I noticed on Facebook that one of my wife's distant relatives was visiting the Marriott Library to search for some of their ancestors in Special Collections. This made...
Collections Celebrating Women’s History with Susan Barbara Tallmon Sargent Collection Anna Neatrour March 13, 2018March 21, 2018 Since March is women’s history month, I thought I would take the opportunity to share the Susan Barbara Tallmon Sargent Collection. Sargent was a medical missionary in China, and...
In 2016, we were fortunate to receive funding from IMLS to work on a project titled "Linking People: Developing Collaborative Regional Vocabularies." Over the past two years, Anna Neatrour and Jeremy Myntti have been hard at work on this project to develop the Western Name...
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...
Members of the Digital Library Services group and the Digital Infrastructure Development group frequently collaborate on projects, and we often publish and present about the improvements we've made in the digital library over the years. Here's a selected list of publications and presentations that showcase...
The Utah Nippō Newspaper unlocks a unique chapter of American history. Spanning from 1914 to 1991, it tells the stories of the great west as population and industry grew in the fading wake of Manifest Destiny. As one of only three Japanese language papers allowed...
How would you like to purchase a 40 quart swing top waste bin that holds a standard shopping bag for $2.99? Or a 64 oz Libby Pitcher Decanter for $1.19? Well, if it was April 1975 again and you were shopping at the Art City...
