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...
International Women's Day is March 8th! Here are some films in our collection you can watch for free to celebrate! Also be sure to join us for our free film screening of Women in Leadership on March 8th!...
Members of the Digital Library Services group and the Digital Infrastructure Development group frequently collaborate on projects, and we often publish and present about the improvements we've made in the digital library over the years. Here's a selected list of publications and presentations that showcase...
Everything Speaks In Its Own Way Sara Langworthy 2003 N7433.4 L355 E8 2003 Printed from photopolymer plates and linoleum on blotters using a Vandercook press. Drum leaf binding. Edition of twenty copies. Rare Books copy is no. 14, signed by the author/bookmaker. New Patterns in Old Style Sara Langworthy Oxford, IA: Sara...
“Like Pallas Athena springing fully armed from the brow of Zeus, EARTH FIRST enters the wilderness fray… ‘What!?’ you say. ‘Another wilderness group? There are more wilderness groups than plague fleas on a New Mexico prairie dog! I already belong to nine of the damn things....
Last month, a Map of the Week was released demonstrating how topographic models can be examined within a digital environment. Taking our research to the next level, what happens when we bring these digital models into the physical world? The answer may spark your interest...
“Non ex libris solum, sed ex rebus ipsis scientiam quaeritis.” Gvilielmi gilberti colcestrensis, medici londinensis, de magnete magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; phsiologia noua, plurimis & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata William Gilbert (1540-1603) Londini: excvdebat P. Short, 1600 First edition QC751 G44 1600 This the only published work of...
Greetings, I just returned from the American Library Association Midwinter Conference held in Denver, Colorado. I was there to attend national committee meetings; however, in-between those gatherings, I did what everyone does at a large conference: pick up the convention guide and look for interesting professional...