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...
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...
Digital Humanities has a history that dates back to the 1940’s and yet, as a term, still isn’t well understood today. Is “Digital Humanities” a discipline? A set of computational methods? Does it refer to new digital tools for capturing and delivering humanities content? Scholars...