5 Books for Pride Month
Pride Month is a time to honor the LGBTQ+ community and recognize the powerful impact they’ve had on culture, history and society.
Designing Deseret Symposium
The Rare Books Department at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library is excited to announce that registration is now open for the Designing Deseret Symposium on June 1st, 2026.
Spring Features
Every year for the past 10 years junior high and high school students with indigenous backgrounds have come to the U for a week-long storytelling camp. The popularity of the camp has grown dramatically – what started as a group of 27 students now totals nearly 100. This year students came from the Uintah Ouray Reservation, Monument Valley and White Mesa and from schools across the Wasatch Front.
Congratulations to librarian Allison McCormack who was recently awarded the H.W. Wilson Foundation Research Award for her project Beyond Ege: Biblioclasm and the Broken Book Market in 20th Century North America.
With support from the Cahoon Lectureship Fund, the J. Willard Marriott Library Preservation Lab recently collaborated with the Utah Division of Arts & Museums and Utah Historical Society to invite Seattle-based art conservator Lisa Duncan to teach a two-day, statewide photograph conservation workshop.
Special Collections, in collaboration with the Silver family and the Digital Library, is thrilled to announce free online access to the biography, Madelyn Cannon Stewart Silver: Poet, Teacher, Homemaker by Leonard Arrington.
Beginning May 18th, you may notice a change in the way you access some eBooks. ProQuest Ebook Central is transitioning to a new eBook reader app that includes improved accessibility.
