Book of the Week — A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes Under the Auspices of the United Stated Governement

"These questions are not technical questions; they are political and social questions, and the answers given to them may affect all mankind for generations. In thinking about them the men on the project have been thinking as citizens of the United States vitally interested in the welfare...

07 August, 2017 / 0 Comments

Crazy about Zines

On Fridays throughout last spring semester, a casual observer could often walk by a table and see several people hunched over single pieces of paper, drawing, writing, and folding them into miniature publishing masterpieces called zines. Zines, pronounced zeens, are independently-made publications. The word comes...

01 August, 2017 / 0 Comments

Book of the Week — A New Hieroglyphical Bible, for the Amusement and Instruction of Children

“…so also can nothing be more unprofitable, than the too customary mode of charging the infant memory with verses, or even chapters of abstract doctrines, or passages, about the true meaning of which, schoolmen themselves have hitherto been divided in opinion.” — from the Preface A...

31 July, 2017 / 0 Comments

Welcoming Four New Employees!

We are delighted to welcome three new full time employees to the Marriott Library. We look forward to their great work and their contributions to help students with all they need to succeed....

27 July, 2017 / 0 Comments

Library, Faculty Members, and University of Rochester Press Collaborate on Publishing

Catherine Mayes, Professor of Musicology at the University of Utah, and Emily H. Green, Assistant Professor of Music at George Mason University, co-edited the new publication Consuming Music: Individuals, Institutions, Communities, 1730-1830. A collection of essays examining the consumer distribution of music in the eighteenth...

27 July, 2017 / 1 Comment

On Jon’s Desk: Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, A Celebration of Heritage on Pioneer Day

Photograph by Scott Beadles “The greatest inheritance of man is a posterity; the greatest inheritance of a posterity is a Christian Ancestry – that these greatest inheritances may live in record, this volume is issued.” – From the Title Page of Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah Title:...

26 July, 2017 / 0 Comments

Rare Books Online Exhibition – La Parola Scritta: XVI Centuries of Italian Culture in Ink

La Parola Scritta: XVI Centuries of Italian Culture in Ink   View the original article on the OpenBook Blog...

18 July, 2017 / 0 Comments

Head of Preservation Travels to Arctic to Help Save Native Language Tapes

Need Help - Will Travel. That could be Randy Silverman’s motto.   Randy, Head of Preservation at the Marriott Library, recently traveled to Kotzebue, Alaska to consult on saving hundreds of old cassette tapes holding some of the Northwest Arctic’s most valuable oral histories. Randy met with individuals...

17 July, 2017 / 0 Comments

Book of the Week — On Painting

“Colour and light have an important relationship in the act of seeing…colours multiply among themselves, but, like the elements, there are only four true colours from which other species of colour are born. There is red, the colour of fire; blue, of air; green, of...

17 July, 2017 / 1 Comment

The Rhinoceros Project

“The Rhinoceros Project” is an ambitious and absurdist endeavor inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s print of the same name. Through a series of participatory sewing circles and papermaking happenings, we are translating Dürer’s Rhinoceros into a life-size watermark in handmade paper (a “papermaking happening” is the...

17 July, 2017 / 0 Comments