By Justin Sorensen GIS (Geospatial Information Systems) are utilized by many fields and industries throughout the world. To highlight some of these fields, our Map Monday releases for the 2019 Spring Semester will provide examples of ways GIS can be employed within the work performed by...
By Tony Sams Recently, I have changed my primary scope from visual services to work on the Marriott Library's emerging VR program. Prior to developing our visual services, I was part of the technical team helping to maintain Apple systems in the library and across campus....
(ip)se veniet et salvos no- s faciet. Co. ecce virgo concipiet et pariet fili- um et vocabitur no- men eius hemanuel. Off(ertoriu)m prope es tu domine et omnes He himself shall come and shall make us saved. Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel. You are near,...
I recently had a faculty member request an AI system that would cook toast perfectly. I turned the project down, but submit pan toast as the best viable alternative. By TJ Ferrill Hello readers! In posts past I have written about new services, equipment, or events in...
By Justin Sorensen GIS (Geospatial Information Systems) are utilized by many fields and industries throughout the world. To highlight some of these fields, our Map Monday releases for the 2019 Spring Semester will provide examples of ways GIS can be employed within the work performed by...
RootsTech is one of the largest family history conferences in the world, and we are lucky to have this conference hosted in Salt Lake City each year. I had the privilege of teaching three classes at RootsTech this year (February 27-March 2, 2019) to help...
Be sure to check out the most recent digital collection added to the J. Willard Marriott Digital Library, the Harold Stanley Sanders Matchbooks Collection. This collection consists of nearly 680 matchbooks collected by “Stan” Sanders, father of the local Salt Lake City legend, Ken Sanders,...
“Here on the edge we look east to the West, west to the East, and cannot resolve them. We can only watch; watch and prepare; and bide on the time when what we are, and that for which we have taken this stand, can be...
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met at Promontory, Utah, one hundred fifty years ago. Andrew J. Russell’s meeting-of-the-railroads photograph “East and West Shaking Hands,” documented the momentous Golden Spike ceremony on May 10, 1869. This year Utah is celebrating the Golden Spike...
Since March is women’s history month, the Marriott Library is honoring women scientists with their unrequired reading exhibit. Unrequired reading exhibits feature materials, usually books, from the library’s collections concerning the monthly theme. This month, the Marriott Library is displaying books about and by women...
