Message to Library Friends

Dear Friends, I hope this note finds you and your family doing well. I wanted to let you know what is happening at the Marriott Library....

23 March, 2020 / 2 Comments

Utah Ghost Towns Digital Exhibit

The newest digital exhibit from the Marriott Library’s Digital Library focuses on Utah’s ghost towns—settlements that have either been abandoned or lost most of their population. There are various kinds of ghost towns, but primary reason why a town dies is that the...

20 March, 2020 / 0 Comments

Women’s History Month and Women’s Studies Materials at the Marriott Library

March is Women’s History Month and the Marriott Library holds a number of databases and collections surrounding women’s studies. The following is a short list of focused databases and online resources on the topic...

18 March, 2020 / 0 Comments

Five Recommended Books to Read for Women’s History Month

March is Women's History Month. Here are five books worth reading. Want to chat with the librarian who picked them? Contact Allyson Mower at Allyson.mower@utah.edu ...

17 March, 2020 / 0 Comments

Book of the Week — A Treatise on the Art of Making Good and Wholesome Bread

Persons who have travelled much on the continent are well aware that our neighbours have the art of throwing much more variety and gratification of the palate into the article of subsistence which has been emphatically called the staff of life, than we possess. The...

17 March, 2020 / 0 Comments

Updates on Services and Hours During COVID-19 Timeframe

For current changes & future updates visit: https://lib.utah.edu/covid-19.php...

15 March, 2020 / 6 Comments

Utah Religious Architecture Photograph Collection

In late February, the Marriott Library’s Digital Library Services launched a new collection of contemporary photographs of religious buildings in the state of Utah. Growing out of a 2018 collection covering the religious structures of Salt Lake City, this project aims to extend...

11 March, 2020 / 0 Comments

BOOK OF THE WEEK — Woman’s Place — In the Fight for a Better World

Woman's Place — In the Fight for a Better World Elizabeth Gurley Flynn New York: New Century Publishers, 1947 HQ1426 F72 1947 Women's Day is celebrated globally on March 8th every year. It's origins, however, are much closer to home than we might expect. Spurred on by labor and...

09 March, 2020 / 2 Comments

Book of the Week — Memorial to the Honorable President, & the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress…

“We protest against the movement to deprive us of the elective franchise, which we have exercised for over fifteen years. What have we done that we should thus be treated as felons? Our only crime is that we have not voted as our persecutors dictate....

06 March, 2020 / 0 Comments

Interdisciplinary Storytelling

The University of Utah's Marriott Library has a long-standing precedent for interdisciplinary collaboration. I have worked on visual storytelling projects with Book Arts, Preservation, The Writing Center, and the University of Utah Press, to name a few. The sharing of tools, knowledge, and...

04 March, 2020 / 0 Comments