Hello everyone!
This week I have spent a majority of my time working through one of the boxes in the Gomez Mexican-Mormon History collection which contains many, many various copies of the Book of Mormon. As the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a global church, they have sought to translate one of their most important books of scripture into a variety of languages in a widespread attempt to reach as many people as possible. As of right now, there are over 100 various translations!
With that in mind, it has been a neat experience to go through this particular box and seeing all the copies that the Gomez’s have collected over the years. So far I have come across 25, from Icelandic, Lithuanian, and Polish, to Arabic, Armenian, and Greek.
While I was working through the cataloging process earlier I realized that I needed to tweak some of the call numbers because the printing date differed from the copyright and/or the publishing date. Hopefully I’ve learned my lesson now and won’t forget in the future! There are so many little things here and there that I need to remember that sometimes it’s hard to keep track of all the small peculiarities in the system, all in all thoough it has been quite an enlightening experience!
Until next time!
Stephen Cameron