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05 Mar New Digital Collection: Harold Stanley Sanders Matchbooks

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21 Feb Ms. Cannon Goes to Washington

Posted at 08:01h in Digital Library by Tina Kirkham 0 Comments

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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...

05 Feb Collections as Data

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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...

04 Feb Audiovisual accessibility poster

Posted at 21:01h in Digital Library by Jeremy Myntti 0 Comments

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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...

22 Jan Then and Now: New Digital Exhibit Features Religious Structures

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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...

07 Jan “What were we thinking?” Successes and lessons learned after going live with our digital preservation program

Posted at 17:59h in Digital Library by Jeremy Myntti 0 Comments

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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...

13 Dec New Digital Exhibits from the Digital Library Services Team

Posted at 17:46h in Digital Library by Anna Neatrour 0 Comments

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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...

27 Nov Digital Preservation in Libraries: Preparing for a Sustainable Future

Posted at 16:21h in Digital Library by Jeremy Myntti 1 Comment

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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...

24 Oct Fall Digital Library Conference Season

Posted at 17:56h in Digital Library by Anna Neatrour 0 Comments

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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,...

09 Oct Requesting updates to digital library items

Posted at 17:26h in Digital Library by Jeremy Myntti 0 Comments

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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...

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22 Jan Then and Now: New Digital Exhibit Features Religious Structures

07 Jan “What were we thinking?” Successes and lessons learned after going live with our digital preservation program

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Book of the Week — Archidoxa

8 Films to Watch for Earth Week

Revisiting Social Explorer for Examining Demographic Data

Covid, Coincidence, and a Book Arts Connection

05 Mar New Digital Collection: Harold Stanley Sanders Matchbooks

21 Feb Ms. Cannon Goes to Washington

05 Feb Collections as Data

04 Feb Audiovisual accessibility poster

22 Jan Then and Now: New Digital Exhibit Features Religious Structures

07 Jan “What were we thinking?” Successes and lessons learned after going live with our digital preservation program

13 Dec New Digital Exhibits from the Digital Library Services Team

27 Nov Digital Preservation in Libraries: Preparing for a Sustainable Future

24 Oct Fall Digital Library Conference Season

09 Oct Requesting updates to digital library items

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