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Show the Genealogical Library. Here, as in any l i b r a r y , the place to begin is the card catalog and other specialized indexes. The primary approaches are by name and place. If you can't find the name of the person or persons you are interested in through the catalog or indexes, you would then t r y to locate the person or persons by examining records r e l a t i n g to places the individual or family may have resided. In addition to the vast store of manuscript m a t e r i a l s , mainly in microform, there is a strong collection of published biographical s e t s , genealogical indexes, and national, s t a t e , and local h i s t o r i e s , along with the printed reference works that guide the uninitiated in the use of this great collection. It should be understood that this collection does not relate only to Utah, or only to the West, or only to the United States, but that i t is multi-national, and is rapidly becoming a world collection of biographical, genealogical, and h i s t o r i c a l information that has proven useful in a variety of research programs. A t h i r d research library that is owned and operated by the Church is the Brigham Young University Library. When I became Director in 1954, i t had a book collection of some 150,000 volumes. The collect i on has since doubled in size three times, and I believe the quality of the collection has kept pace with this growth. One of my respected mentors in l i b r a r y matters was Keyes Met-calf, Librarian Emeritus of Harvard University. Early in our friendship he made the point that any research library worthy of the name must have collections in some subject areas that are strong enough to support research in depth. By t h i s it is meant that the library VI |