For twenty years, the Marriott Library has been digitizing, preserving, and making newspapers from around the state available through the Utah Digital Newspapers project. We currently have over 6 million pages of Utah newspapers freely available there. Another 2.8 million pages have been digitized and are...
Have you ever wanted to be a part of history? Well, guess what? YOU ARE! By living through the pandemic of 2020, you are making history and we need your help. The Utah COVID-19 Digital Collection Project has been created to document the response from the University of...
RootsTech is one of the largest family history conferences in the world, and we are lucky to have this conference hosted in Salt Lake City each year. I had the privilege of teaching three classes at RootsTech this year (February 27-March 2, 2019) to help...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Helper Journal | 1947-07-24 | Page 2 Every year on July 24th, Utah celebrates Pioneer Day to commemorate the day in 1947 when the pioneers first came into the Salt Lake Valley and declared this as the place that they would call home. We have many...
Anna Neatrour and Jeremy Myntti presented at the NISO Open Data Projects virtual conference on June 13, 2018 about the Western Name Authority File (WNAF), an Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS) funded project. Here is the abstract for our presentation: The Western Name Authority File...
Jeremy Myntti (Head of Digital Library Services) and Molly Steed (Moving Image and Sound Archivist) have been awarded the Marriott Library Jumpstart Grant for 2018-2019. This internal grant program was designed to support new original research projects that address challenges in libraries and archives. The...