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Show librarian at the Utah State Historical Society, on the Union Catalog of Mormon materials begun by Dale Morgan in 1942, and turned over to the Historical Society in 1951. BYU Library supplied a typist, Beth Fernelius, about 1957 to help John James by typing new entries, and thus keeping the Union Catalog current. When Dr. Everett Cooley became Director of the State Historical Society in 1961, an advisory committee was established to work toward publication of the "Mormon Bibliography." Dr. Cooley was chairman of this committee and, as the editor, I was to be responsible for the checking and compilation of entries in preparation for publication. Gloria Jenson, head of cataloging at the BYU Library, was an important contributor to the project at this stage, and the committee included John James from the Historical Society, Earl Olson, assistant L.D.S. Church Historian, and a few years later Ray Canning from the University of Utah, and George Ellsworth from Utah State University in addition to Everett Cooley and myself. In 1965, Chad Flake agreed to take over the job of editing, standardizing, and updating entries, and after my move to the University of Utah in 1966 I continued as a member of the advisory committee. In 1970 Dale Morgan supplied an introduction to the bibliography which Chad Flake had completed and the University of Utah Press had agreed to publish. A Mormon Bibliography, 1830-1930. Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, and Broadsides Relating to the First Century of Mormonism, Chad J. Flake, editor, was published in 1978- 36 years after Dale Morgan began the research in 1942, and seven years after his untimely death in 1971. Bibliographies are a labor Vlll |
