Students, faculty and staff, & members of the community started gathering at the J. Willard Marriott Library as early as 8:30 that morning on August 21st, 2017. Their goal was to obtain one of 2,500 free pairs of solar eclipse glasses from one of the...
We want to extend a big welcome to two new employees to the Book Arts Program! From the Book Arts Program website, "Through K–12 outreach initiatives, the Program makes classroom visits and hosts workshops, celebrating the innovation, collaboration, and excitement for learning that come from...
“Get rid of that row of bottles & secret dopes at the back of your press. Synchronize your temperature, humidity, ink supply & speed of running, then your prints will be uniform, plentiful, clean & juicy.” — from Collotype Collotype: Being a History-Practium-Bibliography Steven Chayt and Meryl...
De Humani Corporis Fabrica of Andrea Vesalius (1514-1564) was an exquisite piece of creativity that blended observation; organization of information, format, typography; and illustration into an integrated whole to accurately describe the human body. The intense collaboration between scientist, artist, and printer was unprecedented. Prior...
"For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie. But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre But al that he myghte of...
American libraries are renown for their dedication to the services and resources they provide to patrons: books and media borrowing, access to computers and other technology, free meeting spaces and classrooms, educational programs and exhibitions, research and reference consultations. The Marriott Library is among the...
The sun, the moon, the stars! The Rare Books Department invites you to a hands-on display of more than one thousand years of cosmological gazing. From Ptolemy to Galileo to Einstein, hold the books that brought the heavens down to earth. Rare Books Classroom J. Willard Marriott Library,...
Welcome to a new semester at the University of Utah and a new series of Map of the Weeks. #MapMonday Throughout the semester, GIS Services will be releasing a series of bi-weekly maps on a variety of topics demonstrating ideas and uses for incorporating geospatial technology...
“There is something moving between us, But we hurtle on in close conjunction for a while.” –from “Eclipse” by Leland Kinsey Eclipses from Trio Leland Kinsey The Janus Press: VT, 2014 N7433.4 A1 T75 2015 From the colophon: “These poems appeared previously in Northern Almanac published by Catamount Arts in St Johnsbury...
“Adore the sun, rising with all his rays, receiving the obeisance of gods and demons, the shining maker of light.” — The Ramayana The Cosmic Sidereal Galactic Abecedarium of the Universe & Other Tangential Ephemera Sibyl Rubottom and Jim Machacek San Diego: Bay Park Press, 2001 N7433.4 R73 C67 2001 From...