One of the fun things about working in libraries is finding random additional objects that might enhance our understanding of an item, like scribbled annotations in an old manuscript, or an object pressed between the leaves of an old book....
“In a cave in the woods, a slumbering bear sleeps through the party in his very own lair.” “The cold winds howl and the night sounds growl. But the bear snores on.” The Center for Child Care and Family Resources, along with KSL, the Marriott Library, and Salt Lake City Public...
Tunnel Vision: A Selection of Tunnel, Pop-up and Movable Books from the Rare Books Department Tunnel Vision features a selection of pieces from the rare book collections produced using various paper manipulations to create the illusion of depth — framing and narrowing the viewers’ perspective. This...
“For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” — Hebrews 8:11, New King James Version HE KAINE DIATHEKE Paris: [Antoine Augereau for] Simon de Colines, [29 November or 22 December] 1534 BS1965 1534 This is the first...
The Special Collections Print and Journal collection has recently acquired the new eight volume History of Joseph Smith and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: a Source and Text-Critical Edition, edited by Dan Vogel, published by the Smith-Pettit Foundation and distributed by Signature...
Michael Young is an engineering major at the U who decided to try something different from his usual math and physics coursework. So he signed up for the Artists’ Books Class (Art 4090), which fulfills the general education requirements for fine arts. Community members can take...
Hello all and welcome to Spring! TJ here from Creativity & Innovation Services’ Creative Spaces (what a mouthful!). Let me begin the post with an intro to the Marriott Library’s Friday makerspace, held in the Knowledge Commons on level 2. Starting at 10:00AM and going until...
Thirty-five years ago last week, March 21, 1981, the radical environmental activist group Earth First! unrolled a gigantic sheet of black plastic to simulate a crack in the face of Glen Canyon Dam, a controversial hydroelectric dam on the Colorado River at the Utah-Arizona border....
One of the University of Utah’s core values, as expressed in The University of Utah Strategic Overview, is to “[celebrate] the rich diversity of people as well as creative and intellectual traditions by being inclusive in every respect.” In support of the U’s commitment to providing...
“…somebody killed something, that’s clear…,” said Alice. JABBERWOCKY Barry McCallion East Hampton, NY: 2015 India ink washes, various collage and drawing elements incorporating metallic gold paper and aluminum foil with text from newspaper type, copied on various papers, each letter cut out and collaged in a myriad of shapes...