Westside Leadership Institute (WLI) students tested out a new video recording studio (which will open Fall 2017) at the J. Willard Marriott Library to speak to other Latino immigrants about their community projects. “The WLI is a collaboration between NeighborWorks, University Neighborhood Partners and the University...
“Let all the strains of joy mingle in my last song — the joy that makes the earth flow over in the riotous excess of the grass, the joy that sets the twin brothers, life and death, dancing over the wide world, the joy that...
The J. Willard Marriott Library at The University of Utah has been awarded, along with the Boston Public Library (BPL), a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to develop open source software that will allow organizations worldwide to more easily make...
Staff from The University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library will be in southern Utah collecting oral histories on the impact of nuclear testing on individuals and their families. ...
“Immediately upon the arrival of the tea-ships in the harbor of Boston, the first step taken was to request the consignees to refuse the commission. The inhabitants warmly remonstrated against the teas being landed in any of their ports, and urged the return of the...
“…Letters, the Invention of which was a thing of so great Art and exquisiteness, that…doth from hence inferr the divinity and spirituality of the humane soul, and that it must needs be of a farr more excellent and abstracted Essence that mere Matter or Body…”...
Students came to level two of the library during National Library Week to share their gratitude for the staff, spaces, and services that libraries provide. Many students, like those pictured below, were grateful for the many quiet study spaces and the comfy "womb chairs". Others...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="241"] Miscellanies Daines Barrington (1727-1800) London: Printed by J. Nichols, sold by B. White, 1781 First edition AC7 B34 1781[/caption] “What we saw of the country leaves us no doubt of its fertility, and that it is capable of producing all the plants...
“Le’sprit qu’on veut avoir gâte celuis qu’on a.” DICTIONNAIRE DES PROVERBES FRANCAIS Pierre de La Mésangère (1761-1831) Paris: Treuttel & Wurz: 1823 Third edition PN6451 L3 1823 Published anonymously in its first and second editions, Pierre de La Mésangère’s Dictionnaire is still in print today. Professor of literature and philosophy at...
“It was nice being able to get lost in someone’s work and to look at books in a way that I never have before. Being able to actually hold and handle the books teaches us many things. ” Early in the cold, wet month of February,...