We have a bunch of great audio visual materials in our digital library, but one of my favorite items so far is this detailed dive into the past of the Internet, with this ARPANET training video. The University of Utah was one of the first...
I was browsing through some photographs in the Utah Department of Heritage and Arts’ Larson Studio Negative Collection yesterday and noticed that over 1600 of these photographs were titled either “Unknown Woman” or “Unknown Man.” As I reviewed some of these, I kept thinking to...
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...
"MAN THE GREAT I AM." MISS COUZINS SAYS HE HAS RULED LONG ENOUGH. ...
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...
Good day to you, fine reader! Or maybe you aren't having a good day? Well, a wise person once told me that if you aren't having a good day, you should go out and do something to make it good. Alright. Maybe the wise person...
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...
A 1931 reporter in New York predicted a day when families would reside in "house machines," researchers would work from rooftop laboratories, and Americans would attend school remotely, via the radio. Automation and robotics were frequent topics in U.S. newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s. In...
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...