Book Arts: Rosie Kelly to speak in the library
March 17, 2009
Rosie Kelly sometimes referred to as “The Amazing Rosie Kelly” will speak in the Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium on the night of March 26th at 7:00 pm. Kelly is a calligrapher and book artist who is changing the art world one lecture and one student at a time. You can see a small selection of here work at http://roanndesigns.blogspot.com/2008/04/amazing-rosie-kelly.html
March 26, 2009, 7:00 to 8:30 pm
This lecture is cosponsored by the University of Utah Book Arts Program and the Utah Calligraphic Artist Guild. The A. Dean Larsen Book Collecting Conference wishes to thank these two organizations for their generous underwriting of this presentation
What are you collecting?
February 27, 2009
The 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.
Library Exhibit Highlights New Acquisitions: Photographs of Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglas and more
February 11, 2009
Brigham 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.
The exhibit will display new images from the Special Collections’ historical materials recently donated by William and Annette Curtis.
The new collection highlights Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver and Frederick Douglass through letters, photographs, paintings, sketches, pamphlets, deeds, newspapers, stamps, coins, books and other materials dealing with African-American history in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The collection features a 1901 letter from Washington about Reverend J. Milton Waldron, a Carver burial service program and an 1881 letter from Douglass, including biographical information and a photo.
Washington was an author, educator and leader in the African-American community, as well as the first president of Tuskegee University. Carver is best known for his scientific work that revolutionized agriculture in the South. Douglass, a former slave, is one of the most famous abolitionists in American history and the first Black American to be nominated as a vice-presidential candidate in the United States.
William and Annette Curtis are members of the Friends of the Harold B. Lee Library and longtime collectors of Americana and Mormon materials.
For more information, contact Roger Layton at (801) 422-6687 or roger_layton@byu.edu.
BYU’s Lee Library celebrates poet Robert Burns with new exhibit
February 9, 2009
Brigham 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 middle- and working-class values, which were opposed to each other.
“Burns has been popular with diverse audiences over the past two centuries, from Victorian proponents of family values in the 19th century to socialists in the 20th century,” said Matthew Wickman, BYU associate professor of English and co-curator of the exhibit. “The qualities of his poetry enabled people to see in him an image of themselves.”
The exhibit features first edition collections of Burns’ poems and songs, biographies, illustrated editions of his books and even locket-sized editions of his poetry. Wickman and co-curator Maggie Gallup have assembled the exhibit in conjunction with Scottish Poetry Month celebrations.
For more information, contact Roger Layton at (801) 422-6687.
Library Facebook Page Now Offers Search Tool
February 5, 2009
If 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.
Libraries Step Up in Tough Times
February 5, 2009
With 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
New Acquisitions to Support Your Research
January 30, 2009
The Harold B. Lee Library has acquired signficant new materials to support the reserach of faculty and students. The following is a partial list of materils that the library has added to its collection.
Testaments to the Holocaust: This database offers documents and rare printed materials from London’s Wiener Library, the world’s first museum established to document Jewish life under the Germany’s Nazi regime. The collection offers 1,200 fully searchable eyewitness accounts to life in Nazi Germany, of which includes Nazi propaganda materials; Hitler Youth materials; pamphlets, books; a rare encyclopedia of anti-Semitism; and a collection of 4,000 photographs, all spanning the scope of the Holocaust’s era. This is an important compilation which aides in numerous areas of study such as the fulfillment of the Modern-World Civilization graduation requirement, Jewish studies, ethics in the philosophy department, and religious education.
17th & 18th Century Burney Collection: This database is a collection of Charles Burney’s British (English, Scottish and Irish) newspapers as well as newspapers from British colonies, such as the Boston and Virginia Gazettes. The collection includes nearly 1 million pages and represents about 1,270 newspapers. Also included are journals, annuals, Acts of Parliament, addresses, pamphlets and proclamations. The materials span from 1603 through the early 19th century. This collection is advertised as the single largest collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available.
Women, War and Society, 1914-1918: This database is taken from the collection at London’s Imperial War Museum’s of Women at Work. The compilation of primary sources focuses on women’s contribution to the First World War in areas such as manufacturing, hospitals, suffrage movements, charitable organizations, food distribution, care of prisoners, relief funds, and the establishment of wartime societies and organizations. It includes posters, photographs, official reports, correspondence, military decorations, citations for courage, newspapers, committee minutes, and interpretative scholarly essays.
IBIS World: IBIS World offers the most comprehensive collection of Industry Market Research as it offers current reports on over 700 industries and thousands of other companies. It provides reports on many industries (e.g. the ski industry) for which there is a lot of interest among our users but for which we have few resources.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Web access Eastern Europe 1975-1990: World News Connection is an online news service that offers an array of world news and information. The information is provided by NTIS and FBIS, drawing from local newspapers, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals and non-classified technical reports. The information is generally available within 24-72 hours from the time of original publication or broadcast.
Oxford Islamic Studies Online: This resource contains a wealth of information about Islam and the Muslim world. It includes many of Oxford’s reference works on Islam, 1,000 biographies, numerous primary sources and images, articles and book chapters by renowned scholars, Quranic materials and time lines.
Dance in Video: Dance in Video will contain 250 dance productions, documentaries and interviews with the most influential choreographers and dancers of the 20th Century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
The Masterclass Media Foundation: This provides DVDs and license to broadcast on BYUGLE 30 hours of new music master-classes each year. As the license is renewed each year, the library receives 30 new hours of material and retains the ability to continue to access all previously purchased materials. Master-classes are sessions where the artists work with younger students learning specific works. It is like a private lesson with the world’s best performers.
Shostakovich Collected Works: Shostakovich is an important Russian composer of the 20th century. Through his multiple, complex symphonies, he has become known as Russia’s most talented composure. This collection offers several symphonies and movements that BYU’s prior collection was lacking.
Japanese Propaganda – Selected Readings Series 1: Books 1872-1943: This is the first major collection of English-language writings on international, specifically Japanese, ambitions in the modern period. This set of 10 volumes helps provide primary sources for students of Modern Japan and Modern Asian history classes and research papers.
Japanese Propaganda – Selected Readings Series 2: Pamphlets 1891-1939: This collection is made up of 89 extremely rare pamphlets that were published in Japan, Asia, and The United States between the years just prior to the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and the War in the Pacific of 1941-45. This collection will help provide primary sources for students of Modern Japan and Modern Asian history classes and research papers and to supplement the effective application of Japanese Propaganda Series 1 Books 1875-1943.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive: The Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world’s most extensive and complete archive of television news. They have been recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News) since August 5, 1968. The mission of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive focuses on creating, preserving and providing access to the news broadcasts from the U.S. national television networks. NBC and CNN news casts are streamed.
Hispanic American Newspaper Collection: This is the largest compilation of Spanish-American newspapers printed in The United States, during the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection is almost completely unique from any other collection available.
CSA Illustrata: Technology: This database creates a deep indexing tool to the CSA collection. It provides access to high-value tables and figures that often remain hidden in traditional article-level indexing and full-text searching. Researchers can learn about the actual data collected, observed, or modeled and quickly determine if it is relevant to their work. The emphasis of this database is focused on materials science, aerospace as well as engineering.
Soren Kierkegaards Skrifter (Critical Edition): This is the critical edition of the works of Kierkegaards, a Danish philosopher and theologian. His works are compiled in 55 volumes, consisting of 28 text and 27 commentary volumes and written in the original Danish. The value lies not only in the critical ascertainment and presentation of definitive primary text, but also in the commentary and in the added enrichment materials.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO): OLDO features essential language resources never before available online – fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries and unique study materials in an expanding range of languages. Offering over 4 million words, phrases and translations in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese, OLDO also features native speaker audio pronunciation. Approximately 66% of BYU students are fluent in a second language. The language acquisition programs are well established and recognized and this online resource will allow students and professors convenient access to foreign language while working on projects.
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals: The Wellesley Index is an index to the authorship of articles, and a bibliography of articles written by each contributor, and using each pseudonym. Citations of evidence are provided to support attributions of authorship, along with brief biographical and vocational details. Forty-five important monthly and quarterly titles are indexed.
Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online: This Alexander Street Press product will bring together the four collections that the HBLL already owns: North American Women’s Letters and Diaries, North American Immigrant’s Letters and Diaries, The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries, British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries, and adds Black Thought and Culture, the forthcoming Manuscript Women’s Letters and Diaries, and Oral History Online. The database will allow cross-searchable access to the above collections. This is a great package of resources for faculty and students in history, English, women’s studies, and genealogy and family history, etc.
Waterloo Directory of English Newspaper and Periodicals, 1800-1900: This is a directory to the largest single body of historical documents arising out of nineteenth century England at the height of the British Empire. This comprehensive database intends to include every periodical and newspaper published on a regular basis, from daily to annually, in every language, within England: very profitable for cultural historians, genealogists and all subject specialists.
Need to see the Inauguration?
January 23, 2009
Our Government Documents Librarians keep you in touch. They just sent out a quick link to the White House blog. If you want to see a recording of the inauguration one should be posted soon.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/read_the_inaugural_address/
If you need more information on the government or on governement publications visit the Government Documents area on level 1 of the library.
Darwin Turns 200
January 16, 2009
2009 is the 200th Anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. The library has over 200 items authored by Darwin and thousands of items related to his work. This items range from early editions of his books in Special Collections vaults to online access to his works in digital format. Use ScholarSearch or the library catalog to find just what you need.
Here are some samples.
On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life, Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
1 copy available at HBLL Special Collections in Vault Collection – 1130 HBLL
Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. [electronic resource] New ed. Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
1 copy available at INTERNET in Internet Resources
Insectivorous plants, Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
1 copy available at HBLL Special Collections in Victorian Collection – 1130 HB
Good Resources for Tough Times
January 12, 2009
The library’s Government Documents librarians have a number of resources to help you with your research into the economic situation. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis sent us the following as good place to learn more.
Timeline of the Financial Crisis http://www.stlouisfed.org/timeline
We have posted a timeline of events and actions for the credit crisis. The
site has timeline of market events and Fed and other government agency
actions with links to the official source documents. The website also
contains links to relevant economic data and important government agency
websites. The site will be continually updated, along with additional
content features in the next few months.
Liber8 http://liber8.stlouisfed.org
The latest newsletter explains what it means when data is seasonally
adjusted.
On FRASER (http://fraser.stlouisfed.org) we have posted the Money Trust
Investigation hearings in the publications section. These were the
hearings following the Panic of 1907, and include the famous quote from
J.P. Morgan that he lends based on trust (see page 1084 from the December
19, 1912 hearing). In addition, FRASER historical documents collection
now has the Federal Open Market Committee minutes and policy documents
(1967-1992), and also the economic forecasts of FOMC members, starting in
2007. We have also posted the Federal Reserve Bulletins for the 1930’s.
For even more information visit our subject page for Management, Economics, and Government Information, http://www.lib.byu.edu/business/.
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