Faculty Book Delivery

Did you know that you can have Library materials delivered to you in your office, anywhere on the Orem Campus? To request an item for delivery, fill in this short form: http://www.uvu.edu/library/faculty/delivery.php.

Books are usually delivered within 24 hours of sending a request. (Requests submitted over the weekend or during holidays may be delayed.) If you request an item that is already checked out to someone else, a hold will be placed on it. We will deliver the item as soon as it returns to the Library.

For questions about the delivery service, contact J. O'Day at x7168 or by email at odayja at uvu.edu.

Happy Holidays!

We'd like to thank all thank all the students who participated in this year's Food for Fines program. I looks like we might have garnered a record number of donations this year. Donations are  all sent to local food banks.

The Library will be closed December 22 - December 25 for the Christmas holiday. We will also be closed December 29 - January 1 for New Year's.

We will stay on our shortened schedule (8:00 AM to 5:00 PM) until January 7, when the spring semester begins. Text a librarian and chat with a librarian will stay open during the semester break. If you have questions about research or the  Library, please get in touch with us.

Research Guides

By Annie Smith, Reference/Instruction Librarian

Every semester, we add new research guides to an already extensive list. The guides cover both broad subject areas and specific issues to help students decide on topics for their papers.

The guides contain a list of books to provide valuable background information, recommended databases, and vetted websites. By using the guides, students can be sure that
they’re getting the best possible start on their research projects.

We get ideas for new guides from controversial issues that appear on the news and from popular topics we hear at the Reference Desk, but we’re always on the lookout for more topic ideas. If you have an idea for a research guide, please let us know by contacting Annie Smith at x8752 or smithan@uvu.edu.

News from the Sutherland Archives

By Catherine McIntyre, Archivist

In September and early October, we interviewed four people in connection with the art exhibit at the Woodbury Art Museum, called “Global Spotlight Russia: Pastoralism,” running through December 15. We edited the interviews into a nice ten-minute loop on a DVD that runs continually in the museum while the exhibit is open. By request of curator Melissa Hempel, we interviewed: Trent Olsen, an art student at BYU who also fulfilled an LDS mission to Russia; Dr. Rusty Butler, Associate Vice President of International Affairs at Utah Valley University and the Honorary Consul General for the
Russian Federation in the State of Utah; Dodge Billingsley, who trains combat troops to be psychologically ready for war and is an avid collector of Russian art; and Ellie Sontag, who runs an art gallery in Salt Lake City and specializes in Russian pastoral art. If you attend the exhibit, be sure to look for the stand-alone screen and headphones where you can see and hear the interview clips!

Catherine McIntyre attends the American

Associations for State and Local History conference

I recently attended the Conference of the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) in Salt Lake City to promote the Mountain West Digital Library (www.mwdl.org) and the Utah Digital
Newspapers (http://digitalnewspapers.org).  The Mountain West Digital Library is a freecentral search portal for digital collections from institutions in the Mountain West region, including our own Utah Valley University Digital Collections. The Utah Digital Newspapers provides free access to historical
newspapers from around Utah. We had a great turnout at the conference. I’d be thrilled to provide information about these great free resources, which are made possible by the Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC), to any faculty member or department—just let me know!

And we’d like to congratulate newly-retired UVU professor Dr. Kathryn French, who won this year’s Gandhi Peace Award for her six years of work culminating in the Oral History of Utah Peace Activists project. We are honored to have worked with Dr. French to archive and digitize this important record of Utah peace and justice activists. The project interviews can be accessed at www.uvu.edu/library/archives/peace.html.

Librarian Spotlight: Jacques d'Emal

Jacques d'Emal serves as Access Services Librarian and subject liaison for psychology, sociology and social work, anthropology, and emergency services.

Jacques has a Bachelor of Art in History from the University of Utah, a Master of Art in History from Texas A&M University, and a Master of Library Science from the University of Arizona.

LibCast, the UVU Library Podcast

By Ben Wilson, Reference/Instruction Librarian

The UVU Library publishes a monthly podcast called LibCast. The goal is to highlight services the Library offers to students and faculty in a creative, fun, and exciting way. Watching LibCast regularly can help students and faculty remain up to date on what is happening in the Library.

To view a LibCast visit the Library’s podcast page www.uvu.edu/library/podcast.html or YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/user/uvulib?feature=results_main.