Harold B. Lee Library

Archive for August, 2008

• Honors Reading Room images
  Posted August 21, 2008 by Maggie Kopp

  As you enter the Harold B. Lee Library, take a stroll through the main floor. Pass the circulation desk and the Information Commons and you’ll see a glass-enclosed study area called the Honors Reading Room. Lining the back walls of the Reading Room are some large framed images of books — beautiful books, all from [...]

• Utah Heritage Project
  Posted August 19, 2008 by Cory Nimer

  Since 2004, the Wilson Folklore Archives has been involved with the Utah Heritage Project. Choosing different themes every year or so, we have looked at the orchards in Utah Valley, recreation and the environment in Provo Canyon and are currently working with the changing agrarian culture in Utah county. Five groups of students looked at [...]

• Travels in China
  Posted August 11, 2008 by Maggie Kopp

  With the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the world’s eyes have turned toward China with a renewed interest in that country’s culture, politics, landscape, and peoples. China has been an object of fascination for Westerners for centuries, especially during the Early Modern period, when European explorers, merchants, and missionaries established relations with the Chinese. As the two [...]