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, …
Historic Mining Disasters
Added a new research guide from an offline document prepared a couple of years ago. It is a compilation of data available online from the Mining Safety and Health Research section of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. In updating it, realized that last year’s Crandall Canyon Mine explosion would need to be sadly added to the end …
Olympics, 100 years ago
Following the Summer Olympics in Beijing? It may be interesting to see news coverage from 100 years ago in the Deseret News, posted at the Library of Congress Chronicling America site. The newspaper image is courtesy of the University of Utah, which of course hosts many historical newspapers from Utah at digitalnewspapers.org.
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 …