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The L. Tom Perry Special Collections is the special collections department of Brigham Young University (BYU)'s Harold B. Lee Library in Provo, Utah. Founded in 1957 with 1,000 books and 50 manuscript collections, as of 2016 the Library's special collections contained over 300,000 books, 11,000 manuscript collections, and over 2.5 million ...
The library contained 200 computers but only a portion of them had internet access in 1997. [30] [31] The library launched an online library catalog in 1998 after integrating the search system, [31] providing online renewals and extending undergraduate checkout times. [32] An electronic reserve system with an additional server was added in 1999 ...
[3]: 137–138 In 1973, construction on an expansion of the BYU library began, and the Utah Valley Branch Genealogical Library expanded along with it. [ 1 ] In the 1990s, the BYU Family History Library (then called the Utah Valley Regional Family History Center) offered to the public classes conducted by research consultants on various computer ...
The library's LDS family history facility is the second-largest in the world. With more than three million volumes in the university's library collection, and nearly half of those books in storage off-campus, an addition to BYU's large library was long overdue. The 234,000-square-foot (21,700 m 2) addition to the library opened in the fall of 1999.
BYU also claims notable professional football players including Super Bowl MVP Steve Young '84 & '94, Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer '90, and two-time Super Bowl winner Jim McMahon. In golf, BYU alumni include two major championship winners: Johnny Miller ('69) at the 1973 U.S. Open and 1976 British Open and Mike Weir ('92) at the 2003 Masters.
The nation said a proper farewell to former President Jimmy Carter during his funeral service in Washington D.C. on Thursday. President Joe Biden, who declared Thursday a national day of mourning ...
Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three young children to death before attempting to kill herself, is seeking an insanity defense, court records show.
The RSC (sometimes called the Center for Religious Studies in its early years) [2] [3] was founded in 1975 by Jeffrey R. Holland, dean of Religious Education at BYU. [4] Upon the recommendation of BYU president Dallin H. Oaks, the establishment of the RSC was approved by BYU's Board of Trustees in early 1976. [3]