“From the great above she opened her ears to the great below, The goddess, from the great above she opened her ears to the great below” Inanna: from the great above she set her mind to the great below Jana Lee Pullman Madison: Western Slope Press, 1989 PS3566 U55 I63 1989 Printed on...
[caption id="attachment_8574" align="alignnone" width="740"] The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Left) & the J. Willard Marriott Library (Right)[/caption] We are delighted to announce a collaborative grant awarded to the library and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project entitled “Landscape,...
Rare Books thanks Dr. Renee Kovacs for the following translation of our clay tablets. Palace Dedication Inscription of King Sin-kashid of Uruk Old Babylonian period, c. 1900-1700 BC Seven lines of Sumerian cuneiform, six on obverse, one on reverse....
“Ishtar cried out… Six days and seven nights the wind shrieked, the stormflood rolled through the land. On the seventh day of its coming the stormflood broke from the battle… The word sea grew quiet, the storm was still; the Flood stopped. All of humanity was turned to clay. I crouched, sitting, and wept. My...
In 2016, we were fortunate to receive funding from IMLS to work on a project titled "Linking People: Developing Collaborative Regional Vocabularies." Over the past two years, Anna Neatrour and Jeremy Myntti have been hard at work on this project to develop the Western Name...
The Utah Digital Newspapers (UDN) project is one of the longest running state-wide digital newspaper repositories in the United States. UDN started in in 2001 with a Library Services and Technology (LSTA) research and development grant to digitize 30,000 pages from the Vernal Express, Grand...
On March 2nd, the J. Willard Marriott Library celebrated it's 50th anniversary to a crowd of over 200 students, community members, donors, & more. The event featured remarks from President David W. Pershing (University of Utah), Dean Alberta Comer (Marriott Library), Saeed Shihab (ASUU Vice President),...
Hello again, lovely people! I hope your New Year is going well, whether you celebrate the Western solar new year, or the Lunar New Year. I happen to celebrate both. Double trouble! I don’t have much to update on my project rotation. I’m doing reference. I’m...
Photograph and stop motion by Scott Beadles. Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet of Third Dynasty of Ur PJ3824 B33 From the Kenneth Lieurance Ott Collection donated to the Okanangan County Museum, Washington, now in the Rare Books collection, J. Willard Marriott Library, the University of Utah. Our thanks to Dr. Renee...
Written by Rick Anderson, Associate Dean of Collections & Scholarly Communication We are here to celebrate the 50th anniversary of an unusually fine library building, and of a visionary gift made to the University of Utah by a family that has been a friend and sponsor...