What do 3D computer modeling, virtual reality, and rare architecture books have in common? Beginning this semester, the K.W. Dumke Fine Arts & Architecture Library is exploring our unique collections through use of new technologies and virtual environments. We will begin this initiative by building three-dimensional...
The Map of the Week for September 18th explores various historic landmarks and locations found throughout the State of Utah that fall under the National Historic Preservation Act, passed in 1966 to aid in preserving places, sites, features, and structures deemed worthy of this designation....
Click to view slideshow. The J. Willard Marriott Library has a great collection of seminal science works in its Rare Books Department. Visit level 3 of the library to see images from some of these books. Join us for a lecture on September 28. Frontiers of Science ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From...
“Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.” La Divina Commedia Angelica Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Castel Guelfo di Bologna, Italy: Imago la Nobilita del Facsimile, 2016 PQ4301 A1 2016 Facsimile. MS1102 from the Biblioteca Angelica, this late fourteenth century Bolognese codex...
New Frontiers of Arabic Papyrology: Arabic and Multilingual Texts from Early Islam, edited by Sobhi Bouderbala, Sylvie Denoix, and Matt Malczycki, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2017 Papers presented at the fifth conference of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP), held in Tunisia in 2012. The cover...
Interested in how GIS can assist in research and projects you’re developing? With expert assistance and a variety of support services available, GIS Services at the Marriott Library is available to collaboratively assist students, staff and faculty with the transformation and visualization of data through...
“The question isn’t is art up to this but what else is art for?” Some of These Daze Charles Bernstein (b. 1950) NYC: Granary Books, 2005 PS3552 E7327 S65 2005 Drawings by Mimi Gross. From the publisher’s website: “Beginning on September 22, 2001, Mimi Gross filled five sketchbooks with ink...
A push-button solution to professional video production. Located in the 2nd floor of the Marriott Library (Room 2500B), the One Button Studio an easy-to-use video production studio that requires no previous experience. The One Button Studio allows you to create high-quality and polished video projects. You...
The Map of the Week for September 4th is dedicated to firefighters around the world working hard to protect individuals from the hazards fire poses by examining the critical role time plays utilizing a Network Analyst tool for visualizing and understanding emergency response times within...
Remember snow? Winter is coming! Last January, Dean Henry White, College of Science, and Ben Bromley, Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, trudged through the snow to Rare Books to look at our first edition of Isaac Newton’s Principia (1687) and other books...