The processing and research staff of the Utah State Archives is excited to unveil the latest edition of the Utah State District Court Records Guide. Work associated with this resource began in 2005 with a systematic inventory of historic records in all of the 29 state district courts. The information compiled during this inventory was reconciled against all known holdings …
House Working bills are Finished
We even had the cupcakes to prove it–one for each session digitized and put online. http://archives.utah.gov/digital/432.htm Naturally, it would be great to move onto the Senate Working bills. First, microfilming will need to completed, both for preservation and it is from the microfilm that we scan the digital images. Secondly, with the overall economic climate, resources are a little tighter …
Archives Month programs planned
The Utah State Archives will observe Utah Archives Month throughout October with weekly events each Wednesday. The statewide theme for 2008 is “Documenting Utah: Political History, Public Policy, and Archives.” Three classes geared to family historians will be offered on alternating weeks. Danielle L. Batson, MLS, AG (LDS Family History Library), will present a class on using United States naturalization …
Utah Archives Month
The Utah Archives Month website is now updated at www.utaharchivesmonth.org. Events from Utah repositories for October 2008 are not completely posted yet, but should be soon.
Working out the kinks and finding aids
Moving and/or creating a new website is never easy. Hopefully online visitors are not getting too lost (if at all) on the new Archives & Records Service site. A lot of the content is full-circle in that it has not really changed since implementing a content management system in 2005 (which unfortunately had a bad habit of using long confusing …
New Website is Live
The newly designed website for all services of the Utah State Archives (including research) is now live at archives.utah.gov!
New Digital Collection: Beaver County (Fifth District) Court case index
When the Utah State Archives transferred a court case index record book from the Fifth District Court in Beaver County for microfilming and permanent storage, we actually left the court without a familiar means to look up case files by name. Now everyone can view the index books online as part of the Utah State Archives Digital Collections. The surnames, …
New Office Hours
On June 26, 2008, Governor Huntsman announced the “Working 4 Utah” initiative. As part of the initiative the Department of Administrative Services will be going to the four-day work week beginning August 4, 2008. Our offices will be open for business from 7 AM to 6 PM, Monday through Thursday. Our office will be closed on Friday. The Research Center …