“We are pleased as a Church History Department ... to announce that the Church History Catalog is now online, and it is live, and it has remarkable features and capabilities.”
Reid L. Neilson, managing director of Church History Department
We've also worked with Brigham Young University's Harold B. Lee Library and the Family History Department, and we are pleased to let you know that we have tens of thousands of family histories that have been digitized and now linked to our library catalog," he said.
The department is also endeavoring, Neilson said, to digitize the most important Mormon periodicals of the 19th century. These include "The Evening and the Morning Star," the entire run of the "Improvement Era," and "The Juvenile Instructor" in conjunction with an Internet archive that provides fully searchable digital scans of the pages of those publications.
Photographs are already available through the catalog. In coming years, Neilson said, many of the photos will be digitized and made available for download and greater access through the catalog.
Neilson noted that the department has created a series of short video vignettes explaining how to use the new online catalog and do such things as saving search results to an "e-shelf" for later research. The videos may be accessed at the following pages:
"How many of you have come to the Church History Department and wished that you could pay someone to digitize the records so you could take them home with you?" Neilson asked. "Now, for a small fee, you can come and talk to our archivists and curators and actually request records. We will digitize them for you. You could take them, use them at your own place of work. We will also put them up on the Church History Library catalog.
The catalog web site features a historic sites tours and introduces new smartphone app that highlights many Mormon historical site markers in the Canadian province of Alberta.
Neilson's address to the conference-goers was part of a luncheon presentation that also featured assistant LDS Church historian Richard E. Turley Jr. and Wayne Crosby, director of global support and training. The two discussed how the church's efforts to collect, preserve and share the Mormon past have been decentralized in recent years, with church history advisers appointed locally to provide formal training.
Millions of LDS Documents and images now on-line
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Glad to see it! I was about to post this in the NEWS section...
