Apr 24, 2018 We recommend — Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light

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“a trace unnameable — place holding the child to the first frost, the street lamp, the pasture — ”...

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Apr 24, 2018 Book of the Week — Faster Than Birds Can Fly

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“But to go on from here When it has all come back, bread On the waters, for life is This emptying and filling the Rivers big at their head Swollen as big as at the mouth, Shall we begin earlier next time, Push the seeds to the surface?”...

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Apr 24, 2018 Exploring the 20 Highest Mountain Peaks in Utah

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With its diverse geological features, Utah is home to some of the most beautiful mountains and picturesque landscapes found in the world. In this week’s Map of the Week, we embark on a 3-dimensional journey, visualizing the top 20 highest mountain peaks found in Utah....

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Apr 18, 2018 Meet Matt McPherson: Media Studios Tech

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Greetings, This is Robert Nelson, Audio Projects Librarian & Head of the Media Studios unit within Creativity & Innovation Services (CrIS) at the Marriott Library. My colleague, Tony Sams, and I hired Matt McPherson to help us with student and faculty multi-media projects. Matt comes to us...

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Apr 16, 2018 Book of the Week — Wrenching Times: Poems from Drum-Taps

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“When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d…and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.”...

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Apr 13, 2018 Cuentos — Students Respond

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Students from Introduction to Textual Analysis (SPAN3070-1), taught by Prof. Isabel Dulfano, met in the Rare Books Classroom three times Spring Semester 2018 to work with three different sets of books from the rare book collections. Themes were “Narración de cuentos: literatura, historia, viajes, biografía,”...

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Apr 10, 2018 Curtis Census

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Rare Books is pleased to announce the launch of the Curtis Census, a website produced by Tim Greyhavens for the global community. The J. Willard Marriott Library is one of the institutions that holds an entire set of Edward Curtis’ The North American Indian....

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Apr 09, 2018 Analyzing Passenger Statistics Aboard the RMS Titanic

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The RMS Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City on April 10, 1912, carrying 1,322 passengers and 882 crew members. In the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, Titanic collided with an iceberg, sinking the great ocean liner...

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Apr 09, 2018 Book of the Week — The Saint John’s Fragment: Against the Odds

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a King I am. For this I have been born and I have come into the world so that I would testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears of me my voice.” Said to him Pilate “What is truth?” and this having said, again he went...

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Apr 03, 2018 Book of the Week — Anatomy of Plants with an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants and Several Other Lectures…

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“At a Meeting of the Council of the Royal Society, Fe. 22. 1681/2 Dr. Grew having read several Lectures of the Anatomy of Plants, some whereof have been already printed at divers times, and some are not printed; with several other Lectures of their Colours,...

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