Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History records
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence, newspaper articles, reports, manuscripts, oral histories, and other material concerning the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History, mostly from 1940-2005. Collection includes administrative files, history of the Primary and Relief Society organizations within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, social services and women in the church. The records concerning the Primary and Relief Society organizations document the beginning of those organizations in the 1830s and 1880s, 1880-2005.
Dates
- Creation: 1880-2005
Creator
- Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History (creator, Organization)
- Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History (creator, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Restricted. Closed for 35 years from the date of creation of the records, and thereafter open to the public in accordance with the University Archives Policy.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History records must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Administrative History
The Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History was a department at Brigham Young University that researched, wrote, and published Latter-day Saint history.
The Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History was created in 1980, after it was decided that a university would provide a better setting for research and publication. Before then it was a Church Historian’s Office, reorganized into the Historical Department of the Church headed by Leonard Arrington. The primary responsibility of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History was to research, write and publish Latter-day Saint history from the perspective of faith and according to the highest scholarly standards. The Institute Faculty also taught courses in history, LDS Church history, and other disciplines related to their fields of expertise and advise students whose major papers, theses, and dissertations address Mormon history topics.
Extent
32 boxes (16 linear ft.)
4 cartons (4 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arranged into into four series: 1. Joseph Fielding Smith Institute administrative records, 1984-2005. 2. Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History records on the history of the Primary, 1880-1977. 3. Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History manuscripts on Latter-day Saint women, 1921-1984. 4. Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History manuscripts on Social Services, 1949-1984.
Other Finding Aids
File-level inventory available online. http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/UA1214.xml
Custodial History
Transferred from the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute in September 2005. Addendum transferred from Records Management in November 2010. Addendum trasnferred from Records Management in December 2010.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred; Joseph Fielding Smith Institute; September 2005.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Addendum transferred; Records Management; November 2010.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Addendum transferred; Records Management; December 2010.
Appraisal
Departmental records (University Archives collecting policy, July 2003).
Processing Information
Processed; Melanie Nef; October 2005.
Processing Information
Addendum processed; Elizabeth West; December 2010.
Processing Information
Addendum processed; Elizabeth West; April 2011.
Subject
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History (Organization)
- Relief Society (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) (Organization)
- Primary Association (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) (Organization)
- Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History (Organization)
- Title
- Register of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Melanie Nef and Elizabeth West
- Date
- 2005 October
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Revision Statements
- 2010 December 15: Added 3 cartons, which included the addition of the fourth series.
- 2011 April 7: Added 1 carton, the materials of which were added to the first series.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo UT 84602 US