We’re excited to share that registration for our 2017 workshops is now open! We'll be offering a total of nineteen community events this year, including half-day, weekend and multi-session classes, as well as free, informal drop-in sessions and lectures. National and local instructors including Samuel Feinstein,...
The American Library Association’s ALA Editions published a collection of essays, articles, white papers, and lectures entitled Libraries, Leadership, and Scholarly Communication: Essays by Rick Anderson, which recently received a starred review in Library Journal. Anderson, who serves as Associate Dean for Collections &...
The Annotated Bibliography of Clearcutting is an ongoing interdisciplinary forest habitat and natural resource focused ecological database of worldwide clearcutting and deforestation. This compilation of user-submitted site photographs, GPS coordinates, satellite images, maps, and physical descriptions is available to researchers as a searchable database to...
Until recently, my video game playing experience had pretty much ended when I flipped the high score playing Asteroids on the Atari 2600 in the early 80s. I never became a fan of the gratuitous violence in first-person shooter and martial arts games that were...
The Manuscripts Division of Special Collections is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant to arrange and preserve unprocessed materials from the Kennecott Copper Corporation records. ...
Did you know January 18th is Thesaurus Day? You may be wondering how one celebrates Thesaurus Day. It’s simple. You just open a thesaurus....
“Still, wond’rous youth! each noble path pursue, On deathless glories fix thine ardent view: Still may the painter’s and the poet’s fire To aid thy pencil, and thy verse conspire!” — from “To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works” POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, RELIGIOUS AND MORAL… Phillis...
“The Three Hermits” Three old hermits took the air By a cold and desolate sea, First was muttering a prayer, Second rummaged for a flea; On a windy stone, the third, Giddy with his hundredth year, Sang unnoticed like a bird: ‘Though the Door of Death is near And what waits behind the door, Three...
“For aren’t we all on a journey that tries our faith, tests our courage, makes us vulnerable, and at times defeats us and blisters our soul?” — Laura Allred Hurtado Saints at Devil’s Gate: Landscapes along the Mormon Trail Laura Allred Hurtado and Byron C. Andreasen Salt Lake City,...
Digital Humanities has a history that dates back to the 1940’s and yet, as a term, still isn’t well understood today. Is “Digital Humanities” a discipline? A set of computational methods? Does it refer to new digital tools for capturing and delivering humanities content? Scholars...