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[[Image:Salt Lake City Public Library Main Branch exterior at night.jpg|right|300px]] [[Image:Salt Lake City Public Library interior.jpg|right|240px]]


=== Contact Information  ===
=== Contact Information  ===


'''E-mail:'''Contact Us: Logan Library] <br>  
'''E-mail:''' [http://library.loganutah.org/archives/ContactUs.cfm Logan Library]<br>  


'''Address:'''<ref name="ContactInfo">Salt Lake City Public Library, ''Contact Us - Branches - Main Library'' [Internet site] at {{SLCPLcon}} (accessed 5 November 2009).</ref>
'''Address:'''  


:210 East 400 South<br>  
:255 North Main<br>  
:Salt Lake City UT 84111 <br>
:Logan, UT 84321 <br>


'''Telephone:'''<ref name="ContactInfo" /> &nbsp;801-524-8200 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''Fax:''' &nbsp;801-524-8272<br>  
'''Telephone:'''&nbsp; 435-716-1943&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>  


'''Hours, and Holidays:'''<ref name="ContactInfo" />&nbsp;  
'''Hours, and Holidays:'''&nbsp;  


*Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday 1-5 p.m.  
*Library Open Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.  
*For holidays&nbsp;[http://www.slcpl.lib.ut.us/details.jsp?parent_id=8&page_id=8 click here].<ref>Salt Lake City Public Library, ''Locations and Hours'' [Internet site] at {{SLCPLhou}} (accessed 5 November 2009).</ref>
*Local History Librarian Hours: Call or email to confirm.
*For holidays&nbsp;[http://library.loganutah.org/information/location.cfm click here].


'''Internet sites and databases:''' <br>  
'''Internet sites and databases:''' <br>  


*[http://www.slcpl.lib.ut.us/index.jsp Library Internet site] renewals, events, collection, services, research.  
*[http://library.loganutah.org/Archives/ Library Internet site] renewals, events, collection, services, research.  
*[http://catalog.slcpl.org/ Library catalog online] search by title, author, subject, or call number.  
*[http://library.loganutah.org/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/wACTdKeqHI/webserver/65480007/60/1180/X Library catalog online] search by title, author, subject, or call number.  
*[http://www.slcpl.lib.ut.us/details.jsp?parent_id=11&page_id=69 Databases] bios, newspapers, HeritageQuest, Sanborn maps, ''et. al.''<br>
*[http://library.loganutah.org/research/online/subject.cfm?Subject=Genealogy Databases] newspapers, Ancestry, HeritageQuest, Sanborn maps, ''et. al.''<br>
 
'''Public transportation, and Parking:'''
 
*For TRAX light rail, and bus routes [http://www.rideuta.com/ click here].<ref>"Utah Transit Authority" at http://www.rideuta.com/ (accessed 6 August 2009).</ref>
*The library's underground parking facility can be accessed by turning mid-block from eastbound 400 South. Parking in this facility is free for the first half-hour, then $1.25 per half-hour after that. Any vehicle displaying a disability special group license plate or disability windshield placard may park in the parking garage at Library Square for two hours with no charge. Additional time beyond the two hours is $1.25 per half-hour.<ref name="ContactInfo" />


=== Collection Description  ===
=== Collection Description  ===


The Salt Lake City Public Library&nbsp;has a good heraldry collection, and&nbsp;better than average Western Americana collection including books about Mormon and other ethnic pioneers. They&nbsp;participate in inter-library loan service. Their noteworthy genealogically related databases include: HeritageQuest Online, The Pioneer (Utah's online library), Utah Digital Newspapers, Digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps 1865-1970, Gale Virtual Reference Library, and the Biography Resource Center.<ref>Salt Lake City Public Library, ''Research Center'' [Internet site] at http://www.slcpl.lib.ut.us/details.jsp?parent_id=11&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;page_id=69 [accessed 5 November 2009].</ref>
The Salt Lake City Public Library&nbsp;has a good heraldry collection, and&nbsp;better than average Western Americana collection including books about Mormon and other ethnic pioneers. They&nbsp;participate in inter-library loan service. Their noteworthy genealogically related databases include: HeritageQuest Online, The Pioneer (Utah's online library), Utah Digital Newspapers, Digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps 1865-1970, Gale Virtual Reference Library, and the Biography Resource Center.  
 
=== Tip  ===
 
*Street parking at meters is free after 6:00 p.m., and on weekends visitors are allowed two hours free parking.


=== Alternate Repositories  ===
=== Alternate Repositories  ===

Revision as of 14:00, 14 November 2011

Logan Library

Contact Information[edit | edit source]

E-mail: Logan Library

Address:

255 North Main
Logan, UT 84321

Telephone:  435-716-1943  

Hours, and Holidays: 

  • Library Open Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
  • Local History Librarian Hours: Call or email to confirm.
  • For holidays click here.

Internet sites and databases:

Collection Description[edit | edit source]

The Salt Lake City Public Library has a good heraldry collection, and better than average Western Americana collection including books about Mormon and other ethnic pioneers. They participate in inter-library loan service. Their noteworthy genealogically related databases include: HeritageQuest Online, The Pioneer (Utah's online library), Utah Digital Newspapers, Digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps 1865-1970, Gale Virtual Reference Library, and the Biography Resource Center.

Alternate Repositories[edit | edit source]

If you cannot visit or find a record at the Salt Lake City Public Library, a similar source may be at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections

Similar Collections

Neighboring Collections

  • Utah State Archives newspapers, deaths, land, court, local history, naturalization, military, directories, criminals
  • Utah State Historical Society family histories, photographs, books, manuscript collections, telephone directories, maps, newspapers, yearbooks, and periodicals are available in the Research Center and online.[1]
  • Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, Mormon records.
  • Church History Library of the LDS Church 1830 to now with diaries, manuscripts, Church records, photographs, oral history, architectural drawings, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, maps, microforms, audiovisual materials.[2]
  • University of Utah, historical-biographical sources, newspapers, government documents, and Western Americana
  • Brigham Young University, genealogy, local history, censuses, Family History Center, digitized family histories
  • Daughters of Utah Pioneers the Museum displays artifacts, and the History Department collects and preserves about 100,000 histories of pioneers who set out for, settled, or were born in Utah Territory before 10 May 1869.[3]
  • Sons of Utah Pioneers manuscripts, biographies, family and local histories, pioneer handcart companies, Mormon Battalion records, Revolutionary War military records, passenger lists, and historical periodicals.[4]
  • United States District Court of Utah federal court records.
  • Salt Lake County Court local court records.
Wikipedia has more about this subject: Salt Lake City Public Library

Sources[edit | edit source]

  1. "Research Center and Collections" and "Collections Available at the Research Center" in Utah State History [Internet site] at http://history.utah.gov/research_and_collections/index.html (accessed 18 October 2008).
  2. "Church History Library and Archives" in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [Internet site] at http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library (accessed 18 October 2008).
  3. "Pioneer Museum" and "History Department" pages in International Society ~ Daughter of Utah Pioneers [Internet site] at http://www.dupinternational.org/ (accessed 18 October 2008).
  4. Sons of Utah Pioneers, SUP Library [Internet site] at http://www.sonsofutahpioneers.org/lib_library.htm [accessed 6 November 2009].