There will soon be a changing of the guard in Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C. A statue of Martha Hughes Cannon, the nation’s first female state senator, will replace that of Philo T. Farnsworth. The Utah State Treasurer’s Office recently accepted a proposal from sculptor...
One of the things we've been working on in Digital Library Services recently is thinking about ways to develop our digital collections to better support researchers who are interested in using them for data visualizations or other forms of computational research. This is a broader...
Molly Steed (Moving Image & Sound Archivist), Jeremy Myntti (Head of Digital Library Services, and Stefano Kinkade (Digital Audiovisual Transcriptionist) have been working on a grant project since July 2018 to investigate different workflows for creating closed captions and transcript for digital audiovisual content. In...
The J. Willard Marriott Library has a new digital exhibit that highlights historical photographs of churches and other religious buildings in Salt Lake City. Digitized in recent years and accessible through the Marriott’s Digital Library, these photos come from several collections held by the library...
In a previous post, I announced the Digital Preservation in Libraries: Preparing for a Sustainable Future book that I was privileged to edit and was recently published by ALA Editions. Within this book, I had the opportunity to co-author a chapter with Tawnya Keller. This chapter, titled...
We've developed two new digital exhibits recently! The Oral History digital exhibit provides an overview of the many rich Oral History collections available at the Marriott Library. It was developed by James Muir-Jones, a student employee in Digital Library Services. Selected photos are included in the...
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...
As we celebrate the digitization of 100 years of the Utah Daily Chronicle, we take a moment to chat with the UU’s Director of Student Media, Jake Sorensen. In addition to overseeing the Chronicle operations, Jake’s responsibilities include K-UTE Radio, Wasatch Magazine, thegeekwave.com, and AdThing,...