A couple of misconceptions persist regarding the Church History Library, opened in June by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
It’s not a relocation of the church’s Family History Library.
And while the Church History Department enjoys its own separate building, the new library is not the sole, end-all location of all LDS matters historical.
In fact, the Church History Library — with its reading and research rooms, conservation and storage areas and accompanying array of department offices — is the central facility of several related assets benefiting not just the historical department itself but the LDS Church as a whole.
Those include the Church History Library’s sister institution, the Family History Library.
Some confusion between the libraries stems from the two respective departments being brought under one umbrella — the Family and Church History Department — earlier this decade, later returning as separate entities in April 2008.
Read the full article by Scott Taylor in the October 3, 2009 edition of The Mormon Times.
