This Week in the Library
May 16-20, 2016
Library in the News: Ghost Edition
The library popped up in the online version of the Daily Herald last week and we were listed as a resource for the haunted cycling tour of Provo. Curious things.
Gallery on 5: The Heyday of Hats
Both the library and BYU Store are celebrating hats this month. The library has a great new exhibit on level 5 and the BYU Store is featuring the Mad Hatter for their events this month.
http://sites.lib.byu.edu/art/exhibition/the-heyday-of-hats/
Friday Film: Winged Victory
Winged Victory
Starring Lon McCallister, Jeanne Crain, Edmond O’Brien, Jane Ball.
Adapted from the Broadway smash hit by Moss Hart, this film follows a group of World War II air corps pilots through training. The home-front drama captures the tension felt by pilots and their wives and girlfriends in a nation at war. More than a dozen rising stars, including Judy Holliday and Karl Malden, can be seen in this significant but now rarely seen motion picture. Most of the male cast were granted leave from active duty to appear in this important film that stands as a poignant time capsule of that era.
20TH CENTURY-FOX. 1944. 2 HRS. 10 MINS. DIRECTOR: GEORGE CUKOR.
7:00 pm in the auditorium
The Library in Social Media
Library & Summer
Library is the Best
Library NewsNotes
Did you know that the entire text of the Harold B. Lee Library's print collection would fit on four jump drives? They are really big and expensive jump drives, but that is amazing. The Library of Congress likes to keep track of how many different ways people measure and compare their collection. Their library would require, according to one source, 39 jump drives.
You can also read about a family that has been saving their records for 600 years or how Apple will just take files off your computer and do things you might not like with them.
Next Week: 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.