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Sympathy For The Devil: Editing Alterate Style, Michael Spooner

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

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Medieval And Renaissance Book Production, Richard W. Clement

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

There is a widely held, yet erroneous, belief that the invention of the book was concurrent with the invention of printing. Somehow it is assumed that the act of printing--that is producing a book by mechanical means--endows the finished product with that essence that embodies a book. After all, the hand-produced book is called a manuscript, not simply a book, and early-printed books are called incunabula, books in their infancy. We are accustomed to think of the periods of manuscripts and printed books as distinct. Traditionally a scholar working in one of these fields has known little of the other …

Identifying, Developing, And Marketing Library Services To Cooperative Extension Personnel, Betty Rozum, Kevin Brewer

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

Cooperative Extension personnel are responsible for disseminating information of university-based research to the people of their state. At Utah State University, there were no library services in place to assist this population in meeting the demands for information. Extension personnel were surveyed to identify useful library services, and the results were used to develop and market library services. The land-grant university system was initiated by the Morrill Acts of 1862/1890 and expanded by the Smith-Lever Act of 1914. As a result of these acts of Congress, land-grant universities and colleges, including Utah State University (USU), have as their mission three …

Marginalia No. 2, Merrill-Cazier Library

Marginalia

Volume 1, Number 2 (Issue no. 2): Winter issue 1997

INTO A BRAVE NEW WORLD?-Guest commentator, Prof. Larry Cannon on the loss of the card catalogue

INTERNET WIZARDRY- Kevin Brewer describes interesting Web sites and how to access them.

BETTER THAN CASH-Giving Through capital gains profits

“FRIENDSHIP FOR LIBRARIES”-What Friends offer & what it members get back

JOIN FRIENDS COUPON & REPLY ENVELOPE

EUPHORIA OF READING-Fungus on old paper & ‘enlightening’ drug-like euphoria

JUST BETWEEN FRIENDS-spotlights Wilford R. Gardner, Friends Board member

ADOPT A JOURNAL-How to help the libraries keep up with journal inflation

THE FRONTIER CLOSES AT OLD MAIN-Bob …

Marginalia No. 1, Merrill-Cazier Library

Marginalia

Vol. 1, Number 1 (Issue no. 1): Autumn issue 1996

WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR?-An Introduction by Prof. William F. Lye

OF ATOMS AND BITS-John Needham, Editor, describes hopes for Marginalia

LIGHT PLUS TIME INCIDENT-Max Peterson on the SciTech Library

JUST BETWEEN FRIENDS-Spotlights Bob Parsons, Univ. Archivist in USU Special Collections

A LASTING GIFT-How to make a memorial gift to USU Libraries

TRAINS, PLANES, & AUTOMOBILES-Report on a recent gift of books from Prof. Arthur Frietzhe

A BOOKISH LEXICON-Various “book words”.

JOIN FRIENDS!-Full page insert w/reply envelope.

FRIENDS CALENDAR-Outlining the CollegeWise series, Arrington Lecture, & Fall Roundup Friends Meeting

Postings On A Genre Of E-Mail, Michael Spooner, Kathleen Yancey

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

I was talking with a novelist recently about various kinds of writing-nothing special, just happy-hour talk-and I found my earnest self assuring him that, oh yes, academic writing nowadays will tolerate a number of different styles and voices. (I should know, right? I'm in academic publishing.) He choked; he slapped my arm; he laughed out loud. I don't remember if he spit his drink back in the glass. Silly me, I was serious. And, among other things, I was thinking about this essay/dialogue, in which we're turning discourse conventions of the net - often a rather casual medium - to …

The University Library As Information Provider And Communication Facilitator: A Faculty Research Database, Judiith R.J. Johnson, Anne Hedrich

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

The current "information explosion," coupled with rapid electronic developments and pervasive economic constraints, is forcing academic communities and their libraries to refine and rethink their policies and services in order to increase efficient dissemination of information. This requires close monitoring of and quicker response to the changing needs of their own user communities. This collaborative project addresses these issues by collecting and correlating information obtained directly from university faculty and research units, tracking elements such as research interests, projects, patents, funding sources, publications, and courses taught. Preliminary findings and the significance of providing wide electronic access to the results are …

Improving The Implementation Of A Research Tool: Methods To Increase Library Survey Response Rates, Judiith R.J. Johnson, Anne Hedrich

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

In the winter of 1992 we began research into the implementation of a university-wide survey. This project grew out of discussion about ways Merrill Library could be more responsive through collection development to changing trends in course offerings and research emphases at Utah State University. It was felt that our collection development policies traditionally answered and were based upon teaching needs but might not address research-related needs adequately. This was in large part due to a lack of information about the evolution of research directions throughout the USU community. The problem was further exacerbated by the spiraling costs of journal …

Improving The Implementation Of A Research Tool: Methods To Increase Library Survey Response Rates, Judith R.J. Johnson, Anne E. Hedrich

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

In the winter of 1992 we began research into the implementation of a university-wide survey. This project grew out of discussion about ways Merrill Library could be more responsive through collection development to changing trends in course offerings and research emphases at Utah State University. It was felt that our collection development policies traditionally answered and were based upon teaching needs but might not address research-related needs adequately. This was in large part due to a lack of information about the evolution of research directions throughout the USU community. The problem was further exacerbated by the spiraling costs of journal …

Joseph Regenstein Library, University Of Chicago, Richard W. Clement

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

The University of Chicago began its collection of medieval manuscripts in its very first years. (3) In 1891 William Rainey Harper, the university's first president, purchased the entire stock of a Berlin antiquarian book firm, Calvary and Company. By this single act, the university's small library was increased by over 90,000 volumes, of which fifty-three were medieval manuscripts, mostly dating from the fifteenth century [6]. By 1912, as a result of the acquisition of the Hengstenberg, the Ide, and the American Bible Union collections, the university's medieval manuscripts numbered seventy-nine, composed mainly of theological works.

Cataloging Medieval And Renaissance Manuscripts: A Review Article, Richard W. Clement

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

Until recently it could have been argued with much justification that the cataloging of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States began and ended with Seymour De Ricci's Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40) and Supplement (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962). Of course, many excellent catalogs were produced before the Census and have been produced since (although most are of a specialized nature), yet the Census and its Supplement must be regarded as the one great landmark in cataloging in this country. It was the …

The Feasibility Of A Computer-Based Library Reference Interview, Stephen C. Weiss

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

The feasibility of a computer-based library reference interview is forecasted through an analysis of the literature concerned with primary aspects of the library reference interview, concept formation, computer concept formation, computerization of reference service and the future of reference service. The state of the art is discussed in light of specific computer programs currently available for the automation of library reference service. Factors supporting and limiting the automation of library reference service are presented. Conclusions and recommendations are made for the realization of a computer-based library reference interview.

A History Of The Public Library Movement In Utah, Max J. Evans

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The public library in Utah and its acceptance as a public institution is the subject of this thesis. For present purposes, public libraries will be defined as those open to all, those having general collections of books, and those which circulate their books among the public. This thesis does not treat church, school, college, industrial, medical, law, and special libraries, except as they functioned as public libraries.

Most of Utah’s earliest public libraries were operated and supported by private individuals and organizations. As private support proved insufficient, however, cities and towns began to take up this responsibility. In the year …

A Self-Instructional Program For The Technical Services Of The Utah State University Library, Heber Clark Barzee

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Self-instructional carrels and accompanying programs are being utilized successfully in numerous areas of education . In the field of Library Science the potential is especially great because of the skills and knowledge that can be conveyed in an individualized learning situation. To date in the USU Library, this concept has not been applied. Distinct possibilities exist in the various areas of the Library. The Technical Services of the Library or that area where materials are ordered, received, and prepared for the patron's use, lends itself particularly to self-instruction. The work accomplished in Technical Services is not understood by students, patrons, …

Indian Depredations In Utah: Memorial Of The Legislative Assembly Of Utah Territory, Preview For An Appropriation To Pay For Indian Depredations And Expenses Inenrred In Supressing Indian Hostilities, U.S. House Of Representatives

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

Historical government document of the Legislative Assembly about Indian depredations in the Utah territory.

Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Tranmitting Report Of The Investigation Of The Acts Of Gevernor Young, Ex Officio Superintendent Of Indian Affairs In The Utah Territory, U.S. House Of Representatives

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

Historical document of the U.S. House of Representatives regarding Governor Young and Indian affairs of the Utah Territory.