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Harold B. Lee Library

Library Adventures  Cartoon of a girl carrying heavy books in front of the BYU library.

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Library Adventures 

BYU alumni stories from student days in the Harold B. Library. 

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Awed by the Ocean

Lee Braithwaite drew over 40 detailed drawings of invertebrate sea life for the BYU library.

Student Life

Study Snacks

Long gone are the days of no food in the library.

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Movie Mozart

Ever seen Gone with the Wind or King Kong? BYU experts are transcribing composer Max Steiner's scores for public use.

Yesterday: Googling a Topic, Circa 1977
Winter 2023
Life was different before the advent of internet searches.
Back-Page History
Spring 2022
A Salt Lake newspaper run by women in the 1800s shows the career, education, and lifestyle opportunities for Utah's fron
Disinfomania
Winter 2022
In the battle over facts and fakes, insights and hot takes, how can you become a savvier consumer of information?
Miscellaneous Glory
Winter 2021
Alien planets? UFOs? Photographer Daniel George's latest work features something more mundane: the Utah Jell-O salad.
Five Little-Known HBLL Secrets
Fall 2018
The Harold B. Lee Library isn’t just for book lovers—it’s for musicians, designers, and film junkies, too.
Looking Back: Library Construction
Fall 2018
Before it was the HBLL, it was the J. Reuben Clark Jr. Library. And before that? It was a bunch of steel crosses.
To Behold and Be Held
Winter 2018
BYU students flocked to the Harold B. Lee Library for the chance to hold a first-edition copy of the Book of Mormon.
Family Study Time
Winter 2018
BYU’s new family study room has lactation rooms, rockers, play structures, sound-proof glass study rooms, and more.
Eight Heads for The Ten Commandments
Fall 2017
BYU now owns the Arnold Friberg portraits used for Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments.
The Pursuit of Nap-iness
Spring 2017
What corner of campus is best for rest? Reader answers, spanning decades and buildings, didn’t disappoint.
Meet Harold
Spring 2016
The social-media persona of the Harold B. Lee Library is getting a generation of digital natives excited about books.
Illuminating Texts
Fall 2014
For the careful reader, the Bible yields fresh insights and newness of life.
Battle Tested
Summer 2014
After Chinese history professor Paul V. Hyer helped an acquaintance on a trip, he came home with a most unusual payment.
Harold Gets Hotter
Spring 2014
Planting Color
Winter 2014
Nemelka’s tree trunk, discovered in a junkyard, took early four months to get just right.
Squeaky Art
Summer 2013
Madeline McNeil points drowning students toward help.
Alexander’s Box
Fall 2012
The Harold B. Lee Library has made a home for the creative world of a Newbery-winning fantasy author.
Mum’s the Word
Spring 2012
Making an Egyptian mummy case was on this alumni's bucket list.
Pearl Harbor Aerial Peril
Spring 2012
Photographs captured depicting the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Let There be Light
Winter 2012