When Lucy Mack Smith, mother of the Prophet Joseph Smith, hand-decorated a diary for her missionary son, Hyrum, she certainly never imagined it would end up in the archives at Brigham Young University — or on the Internet (lib.byu.edu/dlib/mmd). Hyrum Smith’s diary is the oldest of 575 diaries written by early missionaries of The Church …
BYU has been ranked for ten years running as the nation’s number one stone-cold sober school by the Princeton Review, a survey of student opinions. But BYU also consistently places in the top five for Best College Library, and this year we’ve come in third, after Harvard and Princeton. The library is working hard to …
On Wednesday, May 23, the library cataloged its 1000th electronic thesis. There were no bands playing and no one threw confetti, but it marked a fundamental change in the way libraries work. For generations graduate students have taken copies of their theses and dissertations to be bound and then the library cataloged them and put …
The Harold B. Lee Library provides students and faculty access to streaming audio databases offering various genres of music. The collections available include African American Song, Classical Music Library, DRAM – Database of Recorded American Music, and Smithsonian Global Sound. The databases can be found on the Music subject search page (under “Find Articles”), or …
The consolidated Search Interface Committee Project is at a point in our project that we would like some input from subject librarians. We are working on developing a list of the types of uses our students and faculty make of the library web page resources. Would each of you submit to richard_Jensen@byu.edu, by the end …
Ancient Roman plates in new exhibit View images at: http://romanplates.byu.edu/ On Friday, March 2 The Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University opened its new exhibit space, located just inside the library’s entrance with the exhibition “Two Ancient Roman Plates: Bronze Military Diplomas and Other Sealed Documents.” The Centerpiece of the exhibit, an extraordinary …
Lee Library and available externally. The project will prototype an interface proposed by David Day and Janet Bradford. In addition to prototyping an interface, the project will experiment with implementing Keystone, an open source federated search engine. The project will result in a prototype of beta test quality available on the beta test page of …
Pilot a search capable of returning valid relevance results across all library assets including those “hidden” in databases. Google offers a tool called the Google Search Appliance which enables detailed indexing and searching of content based on the organization’s needs and wants. Currently, Google searches only what is directly visible within a few “clicks” of …
Recent LibQual surveys indicate that on a daily basis, nearly 70% of the survey respondents indicated that they use a non-library gateway such as Google or Yahoo for information. Brian Roberts observed that this is a trend at other major universitites who participate in LibQual, not just a BYU trend. Given this knowledge, the Web …