Need Help - Will Travel. That could be Randy Silverman’s motto. Randy, Head of Preservation at the Marriott Library, recently traveled to Kotzebue, Alaska to consult on saving hundreds of old cassette tapes holding some of the Northwest Arctic’s most valuable oral histories. Randy met with individuals...
This year's Spring Commencement featured mountaineer and U alum Conrad Anker as the featured speaker. Dr. Gregory C. Thompson, Associate Dean for Special Collections and Alfred Mowdood, Head of Faculty Services and Librarian, were both involved in events around Conrad Anker and his bestowal of an honorary doctorate...
It’s the kind of story that you’d like to hear every single day. A group of students from the Uintah Basin – the majority from the Ute Reservation – come to the University of Utah for a week-long workshop where they learn the art of...
Reproducibility. Transparency. Sharing. These words represent the gold standard in academic research, yet none of them are as ubiquitous as one might imagine or hope. At the University of Utah, a team of librarians and technologists from the Marriott, Eccles Health Sciences, and Faust Law...
How would you like to purchase a 40 quart swing top waste bin that holds a standard shopping bag for $2.99? Or a 64 oz Libby Pitcher Decanter for $1.19? Well, if it was April 1975 again and you were shopping at the Art City...
One might wonder how the School of Dentistry and the Marriott Library would be partners. Strange bedfellows you say? Not at all. TJ Ferrell, Assistant Head of Creative Spaces, and Ben Engel, 3D Media Support and Training Specialist, both staff members of the library’s Creativity and...
Westside Leadership Institute (WLI) students tested out a new video recording studio (which will open Fall 2017) at the J. Willard Marriott Library to speak to other Latino immigrants about their community projects. “The WLI is a collaboration between NeighborWorks, University Neighborhood Partners and the University...
The J. Willard Marriott Library at The University of Utah has been awarded, along with the Boston Public Library (BPL), a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to develop open source software that will allow organizations worldwide to more easily make...
Staff from The University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library will be in southern Utah collecting oral histories on the impact of nuclear testing on individuals and their families. ...
Students came to level two of the library during National Library Week to share their gratitude for the staff, spaces, and services that libraries provide. Many students, like those pictured below, were grateful for the many quiet study spaces and the comfy "womb chairs". Others...
