TRAVELERS ~~~~~~~~~~ IN CELEBRATION OF PETER AND DONNA THOMAS ~~~~~~~~~~ FORTY YEARS OF BOOKS TO GO Peter and Donna Thomas are book artists from Santa Cruz, CA. They work collaboratively and individually letterpress printing, hand-lettering and illustrating texts, making paper, and hand binding both fine press and artists’ books. Inspired...
Rare Books salutes The Great American Read by inviting you to visit the Special Collections Reading Room on level 4 of the J. Willard Marriott Library to hold first editions of some of the classics included on the 100 list....
We have a bunch of great audio visual materials in our digital library, but one of my favorite items so far is this detailed dive into the past of the Internet, with this ARPANET training video. The University of Utah was one of the first...
I was browsing through some photographs in the Utah Department of Heritage and Arts’ Larson Studio Negative Collection yesterday and noticed that over 1600 of these photographs were titled either “Unknown Woman” or “Unknown Man.” As I reviewed some of these, I kept thinking to...
The J. Willard Marriott Library staff & faculty work with incredible U of U students every day. One student that librarians & library staff worked with was Elizabeth Gamarro. Elizabeth first started working with librarians when she was taking a class with the West Side...
This past spring, students taking Digital Storytelling, a course taught by Natalie Stillman-Webb, Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies, worked with Alison Elbrader, Special Collections Reference Librarian. One student, Mickenzie Burns, produced this video, inspired by her visit. [vc_video link='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9qpDawgm1E'] Thank you, Mickenzie! View the original article on...
Everything corresponds. Sweet is easy: happiness. Tanginess is trickier: people going the wrong way and calling it right; the tendency not to complain while harboring envious and covetous feelings. Sourness is things you like and don’t like — woven together. Smokiness is slow vision, seeing...
By Anna Neatrour One of the hazards of working on metadata for digital collections is getting distracted by the items you are describing, and spending more time than you should reading them! I was working on the metadata for the Carbon County Oral History collection some time...
There are so many fun reasons to come visit the library during the summer! Whether it's our air conditioning, exhibitions, or cool treats, you should definitely stop by!...
By 1893, more than 50 newspapers were being published in Utah Territory. On December 17 of that year, two dozen publishers and editors gathered in Lehi to form a new organization: a cooperative body that would share information, set standards for journalism, and advocate for...