On April 29, 1847 the nearly three month-long rescue of survivors of the now-infamous Donner-Reed Party ended. The last surviving member arrived at Sutter’s Fort more than a year after the original party had departed from Springfield, Illinois. The first of the lost souls, located...
The Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library and the J. Willard Marriott Library co-sponsor the annual $2000 Library Award given at the Bench-2-Bedside Competition Night. This year, the Library Award went to the Endo-Grip team. One of the members of Endo-Grip, Amir Ali Ghaffarian, spoke to...
It gives us great pleasure to announce the Marriott Library as one of the recipients of a 2018 National Leadership Grants for Libraries from the Institute for Library and Museum Services (IMLS). The authors and co-PI’s of the project, Anne Morrow and Tallie Casucci,...
Since Solphal, the Marriott Library's Digital Asset Management System, is a homegrown system built off of open source tools, we are able to add new features to the user interface as different needs are discovered. One new feature that was recently implemented is a date...
“a trace unnameable — place holding the child to the first frost, the street lamp, the pasture — ”...
“But to go on from here When it has all come back, bread On the waters, for life is This emptying and filling the Rivers big at their head Swollen as big as at the mouth, Shall we begin earlier next time, Push the seeds to the surface?”...
With its diverse geological features, Utah is home to some of the most beautiful mountains and picturesque landscapes found in the world. In this week’s Map of the Week, we embark on a 3-dimensional journey, visualizing the top 20 highest mountain peaks found in Utah....
Greetings, This is Robert Nelson, Audio Projects Librarian & Head of the Media Studios unit within Creativity & Innovation Services (CrIS) at the Marriott Library. My colleague, Tony Sams, and I hired Matt McPherson to help us with student and faculty multi-media projects. Matt comes to us...
A 1931 reporter in New York predicted a day when families would reside in "house machines," researchers would work from rooftop laboratories, and Americans would attend school remotely, via the radio. Automation and robotics were frequent topics in U.S. newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s. In...
“When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d…and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.”...