In fall 2017, GIS Services embarked on a new method for sharing the possibilities of GIS with others by offering drop-in information sessions. These sessions have continued into spring 2018, providing a great opportunity for students, staff, and faculty of the University of Utah to: ...
Are you seeking one of the many family-friendly spaces available on the University of Utah campus? This mapping application was developed to assist individuals in just that way, offering a resource for easily identifying, locating, and visualizing spaces available to the University community. #MapMonday Family-Friendly Spaces...
“The white-haired Ziusudra gazes dreaming out to sea. Above his white head, the tall palms dream also, Undulating slowly the green indolence of their leaves. The old man remembers Long days, long since, when he watched other waves Heaving like these, heaving onward eternally, Yet never breaking On any earthly shore; For earth...
“From the great above she opened her ears to the great below, The goddess, from the great above she opened her ears to the great below” Inanna: from the great above she set her mind to the great below Jana Lee Pullman Madison: Western Slope Press, 1989 PS3566 U55 I63 1989 Printed on...
Rare Books thanks Dr. Renee Kovacs for the following translation of our clay tablets. Palace Dedication Inscription of King Sin-kashid of Uruk Old Babylonian period, c. 1900-1700 BC Seven lines of Sumerian cuneiform, six on obverse, one on reverse....
“Ishtar cried out… Six days and seven nights the wind shrieked, the stormflood rolled through the land. On the seventh day of its coming the stormflood broke from the battle… The word sea grew quiet, the storm was still; the Flood stopped. All of humanity was turned to clay. I crouched, sitting, and wept. My...
Photograph and stop motion by Scott Beadles. Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet of Third Dynasty of Ur PJ3824 B33 From the Kenneth Lieurance Ott Collection donated to the Okanangan County Museum, Washington, now in the Rare Books collection, J. Willard Marriott Library, the University of Utah. Our thanks to Dr. Renee...
Everything Speaks In Its Own Way Sara Langworthy 2003 N7433.4 L355 E8 2003 Printed from photopolymer plates and linoleum on blotters using a Vandercook press. Drum leaf binding. Edition of twenty copies. Rare Books copy is no. 14, signed by the author/bookmaker. New Patterns in Old Style Sara Langworthy Oxford, IA: Sara...
“Like Pallas Athena springing fully armed from the brow of Zeus, EARTH FIRST enters the wilderness fray… ‘What!?’ you say. ‘Another wilderness group? There are more wilderness groups than plague fleas on a New Mexico prairie dog! I already belong to nine of the damn things....
Last month, a Map of the Week was released demonstrating how topographic models can be examined within a digital environment. Taking our research to the next level, what happens when we bring these digital models into the physical world? The answer may spark your interest...