After 17 years of unfolding, unsticking and washing 140,000 newspaper clippings, the conservators in the Marriott Library's Preservation Department have uncovered fascinating historical details of life at The University of Utah from 1915-1950. ...
Friday, March 11, 2016, 12 – 1pm J. Willard Marriott Library, Rm 1726A Join Amy Brunvand for a discussion of “The Sixth Extinction: an Unnatural History” by Elizabeth Kolbert This is part three of a four part series of discussions about climate change and fossil fuel divestment, based...
The J. Willard Marriott Library and the Office of the Vice President for Research hosted the first annual Celebrate U: A Showcase of Extraordinary Faculty Achievements on March 9, 2016. The event highlighted University of Utah faculty who reached a pinnacle of professional success in...
DANCING WITH AMELIA Charles Hobson (1943-) San Francisco, CA: Pacific Editions, 2000 N7433.4 H62 D36 2000 Charles Hobson uses a variety of printmaking methods to construct images around historical and literary themes. The book is his primary format. Mixed media drawings scanned and printed as IRIS prints. Pages die...
image from “The Poems of William Shakespeare, According to the Text of the Original Copies, Including the Lyrics, Songs, and Snatches Found in His Dramas,” Essex House Press, 1899 PR2841 A2 E55, Rare Books You are invited to join the University of Utah’s Friends of the...
“I think seeing first editions especially, and seeing them in the way that they would have come out is really powerful because then you kind of get to experience it in the way similar to someone would during that time.” — Lyuba Basin, Curator, Rare...
“When the mind has been made up to encounter disasters and reverses, and has fixed a point as the zero of its scale, however for the time it may be depressed by doubts and difficulties, it will mount up again with the first gleam of...
Congratulations to Randy Silverman, Head of Preservation at the Marriott Library! Randy will be receiving the 2016 Gardner Prize from the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters at the annual conference being held March 10 at Westminster College. The Gardner Prize is awarded every...
The Walter R. Jones Collection on the Vietnam and Indochina Wars is a recent and important addition to the Special Collections Print and Journal collections. The collection is an extensive repository of journals and books, fiction and non-fiction, bearing upon the French and American experience...
Exhibition Details: February 19 – May 1, 2016 Special Collections Gallery, 4th floor Free and open to the public Special Collections at J. Willard Marriott Library collects extensively on the topic of outdoor recreation in Utah and the surrounding region. Whether it's river running, skiing, hiking, climbing, snowboarding, or other...