Hagiography is a genre of literature which describes the lives of saints – particularly stories about their lives, miracles, and martyrdoms. Hagiographies were especially popular in the Middle Ages but we still write them today: one alternate definition of “hagiography” is a biography which is extremely laudatory or praises the subject a bit too much. …
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Next week marks the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Mary Lou Fulton Chair in Theatre and Media Arts. The $5 million endowment was announced to the university community on February 26, 2004. The Fulton Chair supports students through scholarships, travel grants, mentored experiences, and employment and internship opportunities. It also augments faculty support …
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February 11, 2014 by Maggie Kopp
Love Your Library Week starts today! Are you planning on enjoying a blind date with a book? One thing that librarians and curators love is to help our patrons find the resources they need for their research. That’s why the library subscribes to journals and databases and buys novels and monographs and reference books. These …
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Special Collections’ newest addition to the History of Science collection is a comet pamphlet by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius. The Epistola ad amicum de cometa, anno 1677 (in English: Letter to a Friend on the Comet of 1677) is Hevelius’s rarest publication – only one other copy exists in North American libraries. Hevelius (pictured here …
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The University Archives is pleased to announce that selected elements of the Latter-Day Saints Hospital Nurses Alumni Association records (UA 1020) are now available online. These materials may be accessed at http://lib.byu.edu/digital/scmisc/ by selecting “Nursing Education” or they can be accessed through the finding aid available at UA 1020 finding aid. The following series have …
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