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...

11 May, 2018 /

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...

08 May, 2018 /

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...

25 April, 2018 /

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...

17 April, 2018 /

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...

23 March, 2018 /

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...

07 March, 2018 /

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...

07 March, 2018 /

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...

01 March, 2018 /