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“The white-haired Ziusudra gazes dreaming out to sea. Above his white head, the tall palms dream also, Undulating slowly the green indolence of their leaves. The old man remembers Long days, long since, when he watched other waves Heaving like these, heaving onward eternally, Yet never breaking On any earthly shore; For earth...

Roger Paxton, Ph.D. has been working quietly and diligently as a volunteer behind the scenes of Special Collections for years. Since February of 2005, Roger – as he prefers to go by – has logged more than 2,000 days – that’s 7,000 hours – processing...

“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...