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Show -15- Beth Oyler and Javier Acosta of Circulation represented the University of Utah Libraries during a two-day workshop at Huntington Beach, California for the CLSI User's Group. ******** October 13 - 14, 1976, Yvonne Stroup, Head of Cataloging, attended an "Institute on Processing and Automation at the Library of Congress", cosponsored by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association Information Science and Automation Division at Washington, D.C. Immediately thereafter she participated in a three-day International PRECIS Workshop sponsored by the University of Maryland College of Library and Information Services at College Park, Maryland. ******** Ryan Hoover, coordinator of computer-aided reference services, has had an article, "user appraisal of on-line bibliographic retrieval service,' published in the December 1976 issue of Tournal of Library Automation (Vol. 9, no. 4). He also attended a workshop on advanced training in Lockheed Retrieval Service's DIALOG bibliographic search system held in Denver on December 2, 1976. UTAH. THE M O R M O N S , A N D THE WEST SERIES The seventh book in the series Utah, the Mormons and the West has just been received from the press. Titled A Governor's Wife on the Mining Frontier: The Letters of Mary Edgerton from Montana. 1863-1865. the book sells for $8.50, but Friends of the University of Utah Libraries may purchase the book at a fifteen percent discount ($7.25). To secure the discount all orders must be sent on the Friends order form to the University of Utah Press, Building 513. In 1863 Mary Wright Edgerton left her home, family, and friends in Ohio to follow her husband twenty-five hundred miles to the goldfields of Idaho, on the very edge of American civilization. Her husband Sidney had been appointed chief justice of the newly created Idaho Territory. The trip to Idaho, though not as dangerous as contemporary western fiction has portrayed it, was nonetheless long, uncomfortable, and difficult. And things did not improve much when the family settled in Bannack, a |