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This blog post was written by Nora Beebe, a spring 2025 intern at the Utah State Archives and Records Services. Nora Beebe, a senior in Event Design & Experience Management at the University of North Texas, joined us this past spring as a remote intern. As our Crowdsourcing Project Management Intern, she worked on a variety of projects—updating our FromThePage

After more than three decades of service, the State Records Committee (SRC) is coming to a close. Established in 1992 when Governor Norm Bangerter signed the Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) into law, the SRC has played a vital role in interpreting GRAMA and shaping access to government records in Utah. The Formation of the Committee (1992) The

Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records, their context, and what is available to research. The following series inventories were updated by our archivists: Department of Human Services. Division of Youth Corrections. Mill Creek Youth Center Inmate card file Office of Vital Records and Statistics Birth certificates Office of Vital Records and Statistics Death certificates Tooele County

This month, we bid farewell to Allen Guglielmotto, who has served as an Archivist Technician with the Utah State Archives. Since joining the Digital Initiatives Program as a full-time employee in 2011, Allen has been a reliable and dedicated team member, committed to producing high-quality reformatting work. We are incredibly grateful for his years of service to the State of

Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe records. The following series inventories were updated during March 2025 by our archivists: Attorney General’s Office Opinion digest Board of Education. Office of Education. Division of Pupil Personnel and Guidance Services Guidance monograph Board of Education. Office of Education. School Finance Section Budgeting, accounting, and auditing handbooks Board of Pardons and

Lindsay Hansen has served as a records officer and records program manager with the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) since February of last year. Her path to records management was shaped by a strong background in education and training, skills she sees as essential to understanding needs and “figuring out where people are at.” Before stepping into her current role,

Applications are now open for summer internships at the Utah State Archives and Records Service! These competitive, stipend-paid internships are designed especially for students. Read more about our four internship opportunities: Digital Preservation Internship Archives History Research Internship Local Government Records Accessioning Internship (x2) More Information These competitive internships require an application and interview. The session will start in June

While Utah is known for its spectacular natural bridges, our thousands of man-made bridges are not as noteworthy. No Golden Gate Bridge, no Brooklyn Bridge, and no London Bridge. Most Utah bridges do their jobs without much show, carrying traffic over roads, rivers, creeks, washes, and canyons, without travelers even being aware of what they’ve crossed over. Nevertheless, over the

Most people and organizations know of the Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board for its Archival Project Grants, a competitive grant program that provides up to $7,500 per project in funds to help preserve records and make them accessible to the public. This program has existed since 2007, and has led to USHRAB providing over $450,000 in funding to Utah’s

Like the landscape paintings of famed French artist Claude Monet, this hand-colored 1935 photograph from Larsen Studio of the Provo City Cemetery comes to life; this once  monochromatic image of a nature scene was painted with washes of color and speckled with details to bring audiences vivid representations of landscapes that they may have experienced in real life. The colorist