LDS Church History Library

An impressive new library is under construction in downtown Salt Lake City. It is the Church History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, located on the corner of North Temple and Main Street, just north of the LDS Church Office Building. The library is scheduled to open until late spring or early summer of 2009.

The new 230,000 square foot library will have storage for 260,000 books, magazines, etc., 500,000 historic photographs, maps, etc., 40,000 audio and video recordings, 120,000 local histories, 150,000 journals, diaries, manuscripts, and 20,000 rolls of microfilm. Some of these items will be available in an open stacks reading room, while others will be located in archival storage rooms and delivered to patrons for use in a secure reading room. The LDS church is committed to making its historical materials more accessible. There will be hundreds of thousands of records available to the public upon request.

Staff at the current library are now working on educational and training programs to orient customers and help them understand what services are available, provide consultation, services for researchers and to provide educational events to help customers understand more about LDS Church history. When the Library is finished, the Utah library community will be invited to a series of open houses.
Susan