“The literary and private press worlds are small and intertwined wherever they are, and the Rocky Mountain West is no exception.” — Richard L. Hardesty Dear Rare Reader, We hope the year has begun kindly for you. Here in the Salt Lake Valley, we’re still waiting for an...

AANHPI Heritage Month is a time to honor and celebrate the rich cultures, histories and contributions of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. Whether you're looking to deepen your understanding of AANHPI heritage or simply wanting to read powerful stories by AANHPI authors, here...

We've added over 1300 new items to the Digital Library over the past three months, below are some highlights. Photos Jacqueline Nokes - (finding aid) 459 photos added. The Jacqueline Nokes photograph collection contains materials related to her career at KSL-TV in the 1960s-1980s. Also included are...

“All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use of new metaphors drawn from certain great domains of our contemporary life—science, all the sciences, and technology, and the relativistic and the historical...

“But well or poorly designed and printed, in a collector’s album or on billions of Christmas greetings each year, each stamp has a message of its own, best expressed in the words of the original good tidings of great joy!” - Belmont Faries Dear Rare Reader, We hope...

“One of the supreme pleasures available to man is knowledge, discipline, intelligence guiding the hand to create beautiful and intellectually desirable objects.” - Lewis Allen Dear Rare Reader, This blog post is the second in a three-part series. To read the preceding post, click here. — As we learned last week,...

“For if the present generation find them merely “old-fashioned,” in a few decades, they would appear “quaint” and “curious,” and finally be considered very interesting ephemerae of a very interesting period in English art production.” - Gleeson White on the subject of holiday cards Dear Rare Reader, As always,...

Join us for a special live recording of the Standpoints podcast featuring Dr. Andrea N. Baldwin in conversation with Utah community advocates, faculty and student leadership. Through a conversation that brings together grounded personal narratives, the realities of working within institutions and the deep insight...

AANHPI Heritage Month is a time to honor and celebrate the rich cultures, histories and contributions of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. Whether you're looking to deepen your understanding of AANHPI heritage or simply wanting to read powerful stories by AANHPI authors, here...