Tomorrow is Provo City’s birthday. Provo is a little embarrassed about the date (April 1), but its okay, we still like you. Each year the L. Tom Perry Special Collections host the annual founders’ day lecture and they are always interesting. This year is no exception. Emily Utt, a curator for the Church of Jesus …
We’ve all been there. You are madly searching the library resources for material that will earn you an A on your final paper of the semester when suddenly you reach information overload and start to lose track of all the items that looked good. Back in the day, scholars noted down their sources on paper …
This time of year it can feel like there is a mountain of school work hanging over you. Projects, papers, presentations all have deadlines that are rushing your way. The library staff understands. We have been there. Here is our advice. Take a moment and plan ahead. Think about which subjects you need help with. …
If you enjoy great films, and we mean film, not video, on the big screen, and if you’ve been looking for an epic film, and we mean four hours of real Hollywood big budget, big story, and big stars, then Wednesday is your day to be at the library. The Harold B. Lee Library is …
The juvenile collection on level 4 has a great service for students of children’s literature. They have extra copies of the Caldecott and Newbery award winning books in a special set of shelves along the wall outside the room with the Lloyd Alexander exhibit. These copies are ready to be read but they can’t be …
If you are thinking about graduate school the library can help with a selection of free practice tools for the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, and MAT. We also have access to practice materials for the NCLEX for nursing, the ASVAB for the military, PRAXIS for teachers, AFOQT for the Air Force, Military Flight Aptitude, and …
The library has a great resource for finding unusual items. We are part of the Mountain West Digital Library or MWDL. Dozens of organizations from small town libraries to musuems and large reserach institutions have teamed up to provide access to over 350,000 items, and they are fun items. There are collections of Basque posters, …
When you walk into the library you should know that we have tried to provide you with everything you might need to succeed with your research projects for courses here at BYU. But what if you are working on something different? What if your research is taking you in a new and exciting direction and …
If you are working your way through a tough assignment for school or you have reached the end of the road on finding sources for your next paper we are here to help. You don’t even have to leave your chair or couch or where ever you study. We don’t judge. Go to http://lib.byu.edu/ask.php and …
The latest in our series of Jimmer promotional videos just came out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JTysCSBFCo It promotes our great film series in the library. As it happens we have two. The Motion Picture Film Archive Film Series and the Documentary Film Series. Between the two you can watch classic Hollywood masterpieces on film, yes film projected onto …