This Week in the Library
May 23-27, 2016
Andy Spackman to Present the S. Lyman Tyler Faculty Professionalism Award Lecture
As most of you are aware, the annual Library Faculty Professionalism Award was named last year for S. Lyman Tyler, former director of the Harold B. Lee Library from 1954 to 1966. He planned for and moved the library to our current building, expanded collections significantly, and established the special collections and archives program at BYU. Tyler was trained as a historian and conducted research and wrote on the American West. He later became the director of the American West Center at the University of Utah and was also a president of the Utah Library Association.
Andy Spackman received this award last August at the annual library meetings before school began in the fall. The recipient of this award also has the opportunity to share his research at a newly established annual lecture.
Please join us at the first S. Lyman Tyler Faculty Professionalism Award Lecture given by Andy Spackman on Tuesday, May 24th at 3:00 p.m. in the Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium.
Tuesday, May 24, 2016, 03:00 PM
The Harold B. Lee Library, BYU
New Old Map on Level 4
There is a new attraction on level 4—a large map of China. It is on the wall across from the Juvenile Collection mural outside the fourth floor staff elevator. The map’s history in the library is rather murky, but it hung for a long time in the Map Collection. Now, repaired and framed, it’s hanging in the Asian Collection. The good efforts of Eric Howard, Chris Ramsey, Christina Thomas, Jason Williams, Kohleen Reeder, Debbie Christofferson, and Dan Sappenfield all made this happen. It looks wonderful! The frame that the BYU Carpenter Shop made sets off the map perfectly.
The map is not dated but we think it was made in the 1930s. (Thanks go to Gail King for this story.)
Library Connection to the National History Fair
Eric Hyer, Asian Studies Coordinator, has been helping some junior high school students put the final touches on their project for the National History Fair. He shared their success with us.
"They won at the region, the state, and are now in the final competition at the national level. This project is an excellent example of how BYU connects with the community and shows how even young people can make use of the BYU library resources for school projects. The topic of their project is Helen Foster Snow—a woman from Utah who went to China in the 1930s and was one of a very few westerners to offer eyewitness accounts of the fledgling communist movement in China at the time. The BYU connection is that Helen’s papers and photo collection are housed in the HBLL Special Collections."
See it here...
Library & Wikipedia
The library's Wikipedia project is going very well. Several of our pages have been featured on Wikipedia's homepage in the Did You Know feature.
Recently we have created or expanded pages on Lucinda Lee Dalton, Nellie Gubler, George P. Hammond, David Dalton (violist), Primrose International Viola Archive, George S. Ballif, L. Douglas Smoot, Virginia Cutler, Delila (Richards) Abbott, Wingfield W. Watson, Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner, Janie Thompson, Mary Mostert.
The list of topics we've improved is much longer. For example, thanks to some great teamwork, we now have Karl G. Maeser's chalkboards on his page.
The Library in Social Media
Library & Summer
Library NewsNotes
See an amazing popup book, watch the latest in funny library videos from the Chicago Public Library, and find out how many missionary postcards Yale has collected.
Little Libraries in Logan
Jennifer Duncan, associate dean at Utah State University’s Special Collections and Archives, maintains a little library of books outside her home.
Learn more...
http://www.standard.net/State/2016/05/20/Cache-Valley-enamored-with-little-libraries