Project History and Acknowledgments

The compilers of this bibliography have long been interested and involved in the intersection and interplay of the people and places of Utah. Susan L. Fales, Curator of Digital Historical Collections, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Lee Library, began this project in 1989, as the library’s History Librarian, with a grant from the Charles Redd Center and a publishing contract with the University of Utah Press. She spent many enjoyable hours traveling and researching in the libraries of southern, central and southeastern Utah. At that time no public library had an online catalog and the universities were only beginning to bring their automated catalogs open to the public. It was the days of card catalogs. In 1991, when Susan became Assistant University Librarian for Collection Development, Beverly J. Norton, who filled the position of History Librarian, took over the project and labored on it for several years also enjoying travel within the state. With her retirement, J. Michael Hunter became the History Librarian and Susan L. Fales moved from administration and returned to her current position, permitting her to finally return to this project and for Mike to bring his expertise and enthusiasm to the initial completion of this bibliography.

We felt that the web environment would make this bibliography much more valuable to its audiences and allow the kinds of corrections and additions needed to keep a bibliography up to date and most useful. The compilers would like to express their appreciation to Jacob Jenson, Software Engineer, and David Lesue, Library Web Designer, for taking this bibliography, originally designed for the print world, and making it dynamic and “better looking” than we could have hoped to expect.

Many dedicated students have assisted in this bibliography over the past two years and we wish to acknowledge their efforts. They include Christina Anderson, Jeffrey Hardy, Britany Noble, Austin Taylor, Jenna Taylor, and Brian Warburton, researchers, and Steve Lyon, programmer.

Lastly we would like to thank all of the librarians throughout the state of Utah who assisted us as we visited their libraries and who have helped to develop their online catalogs now available for so many of Utah’s libraries. Without their dedication we would have much less to share.