Jul 27, 2017 Welcoming Four New Employees!

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We are delighted to welcome three new full time employees to the Marriott Library. We look forward to their great work and their contributions to help students with all they need to succeed....

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Jul 27, 2017 Library, Faculty Members, and University of Rochester Press Collaborate on Publishing

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Catherine Mayes, Professor of Musicology at the University of Utah, and Emily H. Green, Assistant Professor of Music at George Mason University, co-edited the new publication Consuming Music: Individuals, Institutions, Communities, 1730-1830. A collection of essays examining the consumer distribution of music in the eighteenth...

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Jul 17, 2017 Head of Preservation Travels to Arctic to Help Save Native Language Tapes

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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...

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Jun 20, 2017 6 Riveting Reads for Your Summer Climbs

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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...

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Jun 19, 2017 Students from Ute Reservation Have Stories to Tell

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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...

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Jun 07, 2017 Data or it didn’t happen: Launching an institutional data repository at the U

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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...

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Jun 06, 2017 Utah Digital Newspapers Reaches 2 Million Pages

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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...

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Jun 01, 2017 School of Dentistry and Marriott Library: A Partnership that Has Real Teeth

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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...

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Apr 26, 2017 New Video Studio empowers Latino immigrants to talk about their community work

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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...

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Apr 21, 2017 Grant Will Foster Creation of Newspapers Platforms

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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...

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