Brady Nelson, a junior who’s majoring in economics and minoring in business, stands at the library security desk, smiling and greeting patrons. He’s not the sort of person who you’d expect to be in security – hovering to ensure that books aren’t stolen and that...
Her name is Leslie Felder. She arrives with three large bags: her school backpack, the diaper bag, and the bag that contains water bottles, changes of clothes, favorite toys, cheerios… She also has her two young children, Stanley (three years-old) and Leora (15 months) in...
Footage from the Audio-Visual Archive in Special Collections is featured prominently in KUED’s new special, “National Parks - Beyond the Crowds,” which airs Tuesday April 26 at 7PM. This documentary, which explores some of Utah’s less visited National Parks and Monuments, places archive footage almost in...
The Marriott Library was recently informed that it would be receiving a $50,000 grant through the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for a two-year collaborative project starting May 1 that will improve search capabilities for those using digital collections. The project will create a...
In a previous post we introduced MCX Utah and the Marriott Library Materials Collection. This time around we want to answer the question “How do I use this collection?” This promotional video follows Alex Carr on his journey to create and patent his CHAR Poles. The video...
“In the zoo we see, on a small scale, how different all animals are from each other… We have to live together whether we like it or not.” KUTHAN’S MENAGERIE COMPLETED George Kuthan (1916-1966) Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2003 Descriptive text about six animals – a raccoon, flamingo, anteater, penguin, monkey...
A grant from the National Endowment for the Arts is supporting free workshops to the community through the Book Arts Program at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library. Workshops include classes in encaustics, paper decoration, letterpress printing, leather binding and much more. There...
Greetings, This is Robert Nelson, the Audio Projects Librarian for the Marriott Library. Since 2010, I have helped Faculty and students in nearly every discipline at the University of Utah adapt audio content for their curricular projects. This particular post will be about an Audio related project...
One of the fun things about working in libraries is finding random additional objects that might enhance our understanding of an item, like scribbled annotations in an old manuscript, or an object pressed between the leaves of an old book....
“In a cave in the woods, a slumbering bear sleeps through the party in his very own lair.” “The cold winds howl and the night sounds growl. But the bear snores on.” The Center for Child Care and Family Resources, along with KSL, the Marriott Library, and Salt Lake City Public...