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Show of love on the part of a l l who become involved with them, and I must add that we mean slavish and time consuming labor. Another aspect of bibliographic control relates to periodical l i t e r a t u r e . The Church began to publish newspapers and other periodicals not long after it was organized in 1830, and non-members began to comment on the Church, its leaders, members, and programs in periodicals simultaneously. A l i s t of Discontinued LPS Periodicals was compiled by Joseph Sudweeks (1955), and by checking these t i t l e s in Jenson's Encyclopedic History (1941), it is possible to learn something about the nature of each publication. I began work on a "Chronological Checklist of Periodical Literature Pertaining to Mormonism, 1834-1881" about 1957. This was also turned over to Chad Flake when I left BYU. He told me that he was working on it in 1977, and I expect that before too long, as such bibliographic endeavors go, it will be ready to be published and made more widely available. In the meantime, with the help of Thayne Johnson in the prepara tion of standardized index entries and a computer program, an index to periodicals of the Church was ready in 1965, and began to appear, at f i r s t monthly, to be accumulated annually, in 1966, as an Index to Church Periodicals: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Two doctoral dissertations have analysed periodical literature about Mormons, usually a r t i c l e s written for nationally distributed magazines by non-members: Richard 0. Cowan, "Mormonism in National Periodicals" (Stanford, 1961), and Dennis L. Lythgoe, "The Changing Image of Mormonism in Periodical Literature, 1830-1969" (University ix |
