Archive for February, 2009
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What are you collecting?
Posted February 27, 2009 by newsThe L. Tom Perry Special Collections are preparing for this year’s A. Dean Larsen Book Collecting Conference. You can follow their progress through their blog. If you are interested in books, printing, and collecting you are welcome to sign up through their web site.
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Library Exhibit Highlights New Acquisitions: Photographs of Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglas and more
Posted February 11, 2009 by newsBrigham Young University’s L. Tom Perry Special Collections will display images of prominent African-Americans on level three of the Harold B. Lee Library throughout February to commemorate Black History Month.
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BYU’s Lee Library celebrates poet Robert Burns with new exhibit
Posted February 9, 2009 by newsBrigham Young University’s L. Tom Perry Special Collections is celebrating the 250th birthday of the poet Robert Burns with the exhibit, “Robert Burns and the Poetic Image.”
The exhibit, featuring a collection of Burns’ writing, replaces the bronze Roman plates exhibit at the library entrance. The Scottish national poet was known as a poet of both [...] -
Library Facebook Page Now Offers Search Tool
Posted February 5, 2009 by newsIf you’re on Facebook you can become a fan of “The Harold B. Lee Library.” Thanks to the efforts of our staff you can even search library resources from our Facebook page. So next time you are on Facebook we invite you to give our new ScholarSearch feature a try.
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Libraries Step Up in Tough Times
Posted by newsWith all the changes in the economy libraries are finding they are more valuable than ever. Here are some links to libraries in the news:
Kirby
Salt Lake Tribune
National-Wall Street Journal
Snow College ground breaking