Salt Lake City Public Library

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Contact Information
E-mail: Contact Us: The City Library

Address:


 * 210 East 400 South
 * Salt Lake City UT 84111

Telephone: 801-524-8200    Fax:  801-524-8272

Hours, and Holidays:


 * Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday 1-5 p.m.
 * For holidays click here.

Internet sites and databases:


 * Library Internet site renewals, events, collection, services, research.
 * Library catalog online search by title, author, subject, or call number.
 * Databases bios, newspapers, HeritageQuest, Sanborn maps, et. al.

Public transportation, and Parking:


 * For TRAX light rail, and bus routes click here.
 * The library's underground parking facility can be accessed by turning mid-block from eastbound 400 South. Parking in this facility is free for the first half-hour, then $1.25 per half-hour after that. Any vehicle displaying a disability special group license plate or disability windshield placard may park in the parking garage at Library Square for two hours with no charge. Additional time beyond the two hours is $1.25 per half-hour.

Collection Description
The Salt Lake City Public Library has a good heraldry collection, and better than average Western Americana collection including books about Latter-day Saints and other ethnic pioneers. They participate in inter-library loan service. Their noteworthy genealogically related databases include: HeritageQuest Online, The Pioneer (Utah's online library), Utah Digital Newspapers, Digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps 1865-1970, Gale Virtual Reference Library, and the Biography Resource Center.

Tip

 * Street parking at meters is free after 6:00 p.m., and on weekends visitors are allowed two hours free parking.

Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a record at the Salt Lake City Public Library, a similar source may be at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * Salt Lake City Public Library branches of the Main Library
 * Salt Lake County Library System Ancestry, Newsbank, HeritageQuest Online, World Vital Records databases.

Similar Collections


 * Davis County Library with a library card you have access to HeritageQuest Online.
 * Provo City Library genealogical books, reference tools, periodicals, databases like GENUKI Heritage Quest.

Neighboring Collections


 * Utah Vital Records Office, Salt Lake City, Utah, births and deaths since 1905; marriages and divorces since 1978.
 * Utah State Archives newspapers, deaths, land, court, local history, naturalization, military, directories, criminals
 * Utah State Historical Society family histories, photographs, books, manuscript collections, telephone directories, maps, newspapers, yearbooks, and periodicals are available in the Research Center and online.
 * Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and records pertaining to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
 * Church History Library of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1830 to now with diaries, manuscripts, Church records, photographs, oral history, architectural drawings, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, maps, microforms, audiovisual materials.
 * University of Utah, historical-biographical sources, newspapers, government documents, and Western Americana
 * Brigham Young University, genealogy, local history, censuses, Family History Center, digitized family histories
 * Daughters of Utah Pioneers the Museum displays artifacts, and the History Department collects and preserves about 100,000 histories of pioneers who set out for, settled, or were born in Utah Territory before 10 May 1869.
 * Sons of Utah Pioneers manuscripts, biographies, family and local histories, pioneer handcart companies, Mormon Battalion records, Revolutionary War military records, passenger lists, and historical periodicals.
 * United States District Court of Utah federal court records.
 * Salt Lake County Court local court records.
 * Salt Lake County Clerk, Salt Lake City, Utah, marriages since 1887, probate records since 1852.
 * Salt Lake County Recorder, Salt Lake City, Utah, property, tax, and military discharge DD-214 papers.