Fall semester is just around the corner and, although lower campus is still very quiet, we are already feeling the buzz of new and returning students. Plan on touring the Marriott Library? Be sure to visit our latest exhibition, Printing Through the Pandemic — located on...
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"Streets and sidewalks were moving masses of humanity — wide awake to the significance of pioneer week...
From ancient hieroglyphics in Special Collections, to cutting edge-virtual reality classrooms, the Marriott Library is full of both the old and new. Each Fall and Spring, the library welcomes valuable new materials to add to the development of library collections, increase student access to pertinent...
Every once in a while, a patron will come to the library and be overjoyed upon coming across an item they’ve been searching for. This was certainly the case when Hideaki Ito, Japanese filmmaker, came to the Marriott Library in June to learn more about...
Suzanne M. Darais, JD, MLS, has been appointed director of the James E. Faust Law Library at the University of Utah. In conjunction with this appointment, Darais was appointed associate dean of University Libraries and professor of Law (lecturer). Elizabeth Kronk Warner, dean of the...
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” — Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. He wrote seven novels, six short story collections, and two nonfiction works between 1926 and his death in 1961. In celebration of this year’s...
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view...
Raymond Compton was ushered into an adoration of literature by his book loving grandparents early on in his life. His grandfather cared for thousands of books, each wall of his home adorned with a book laden shelf....
“This book is a remembrance of what was lost, an appreciation of what is left, and a celebration of what could be. Forests are not eternal. For all their solemn stillness, they constantly change, evolve, die, and regrow. But they are persistent, and they always...