Comments on: Digital Mormon Studies

By: J. Stapley

J. Stapley — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:36:29 +0000

Kevin, I’m pretty sure you need acrobat for the way JMH is set up.

By: Kevin Barney

Kevin Barney — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:52:21 +0000

Lori, I updated to Acrobat 7.0, but I still can’t figure out how to save a single article as opposed to an entire issue. If you see this, please send me your phone number, to klbarney at yahoo.com

By: William Morris

William Morris — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:57:55 +0000

I realize that for many people Mormon Studies means history, but let's not forget the following literary resources (although they are all bibliographies -- sadly, there isn't much in the way of actual content beyond what you can find in Dialogue and BYU Studies): Mormon speculative fiction bibliography (Marny Parkin) Mormon Literature Database (BYU) Mormons in Popular Literature (Michael Austin)

By: Kevin Barney

Kevin Barney — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:26:43 +0000

Thanks, Lori, I’ll have to give that a shot.

By: lori l

lori l — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:51:07 +0000

Kevin- Your problem may be because you haven’t updated your Adobe Acrobat to 7.0. Free downloads are available. If that doesn’t work-call me and I will help you.

By: lori l

lori l — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:48:33 +0000

oh, and Clark….the Dialogue DVD works on Mac. I made sure of that.

By: lori l

lori l — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:45:17 +0000

I made a mistake in #4 above – it’s one year print and the DVD for $60. Savings of $17.
http://www.dialoguejournal.com/store/?id=157

By: lori l

lori l — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:41:23 +0000

Let me clarify the use of the Dialogue DVD for everyone since I was heavily involved in the production.

#1 You don’t need the fancier Acrobat reader to copy individual pages or articles on the Dialogue DVD. I would be surprised if that were true for JMH one since the same company who did theirs-did ours. I can check on that later. One can search easily on it by article, word, author, or volume number. 40 years of every issue of Dialogue is included up to vol. 3804. Each year it is updated with the latest 4 issues.
#2 I like the idea of the plot to get one to buy the journal and/or the DVD that Ronan suggests, but sadly it’s the program the U uses on their site that is the cause of the irritation. It’s called Content DM. Libraries use it because it has many advantages.
#3 Kevin has a great way to get around the searching problem. Thank you Kevin for that brilliant scheme-I will pass it on at our end.

#4 The best reason to have the Dialogue DVD is because it is updated yearly and it works better for research. The online archive only goes up to volume 36…and that is a plot! Watch for specials posted on our website to get the DVD at a discounted price. The latest one is: for only $60 -get one year print and one year subscription.

#5 The new Mormon Studies cd-rom is also difficult to navigate due to the older software available at the time and it’s not up to date. If I’m not mistaken, it includes Dialogue Journals and other journals only up to 1990 or shortly after.

#6 The JMH DVD is not distributed well yet because they just barely finished it in time for MHA.

Thanks Jonathan for the informative post.
Lori

By: Kevin Barney

Kevin Barney — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 21:16:11 +0000

I’m glad to finally get access to the older JMH volumes. I started to subscribe in the 90s some time, when I was teaching an institute class on LDS Church history and decided I’d better do some boning up. Even though I got the journal, I never went to the conferences until four years ago when it was in Kirtland, which was within driving distance. I was hooked, and have been back every year since.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:42:54 +0000

Nice post, J. And thanks for the update on the JMH digitization at the U.