Dianne Harris is Dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Utah, where she is also a Professor in the History Department. She holds a PhD in Architectural History from the University of California, Berkeley. She is particularly well-known for her scholarly contributions to...
The American Library Association’s ALA Editions published a collection of essays, articles, white papers, and lectures entitled Libraries, Leadership, and Scholarly Communication: Essays by Rick Anderson, which recently received a starred review in Library Journal. Anderson, who serves as Associate Dean for Collections &...
The Manuscripts Division of Special Collections is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant to arrange and preserve unprocessed materials from the Kennecott Copper Corporation records. ...
Michael Dirda, a Pulitzer Prize winning author and weekly book columnist for The Washington Post, will speak at the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Book Collector’s Evening, a benefit event for Special Collections. The event, which also includes a reception, silent auction, and dinner, is sponsored...
Have you ever wanted to peer through time to examine changes to a location? With GIS technology, this ability becomes a reality. In a recent map release from GIS Services entitled “History Through the Looking Glass: Thistle, Utah,” viewers have the opportunity to...
Congratulations to Catherine Soehner, Associate Dean for Research and User Services at the Marriott Library, for co-authoring the book Effective Difficult Conversations: A Step-by-Step Guide, published by the American Library Association (ALA). Co-authored with Ann Darling, Assistant Vice President for Undergraduate Studies at the University of...
Darby Fanning, Associate Librarian and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies, has been focusing her career on International Studies. She currently is spending a year at the Utah Asia Campus (UAC), which is part of the Incheon Global Campus, located in...
Congratulations to Lorelei Rutledge! She has been selected as an American Library Association Emerging Leaders for the Class of 2017. "The American Library Association (ALA) Emerging Leaders (EL) program is a leadership development program which enables newer library workers from across the country to participate in problem-solving work groups, network with...
October 3rd marked the official launch of the Downwinders of Utah Archive, created by the library’s GIS Specialist, Justin Sorensen. We celebrated with two events, which attracted a number of people including students, individuals as well as members of the media. ...
September 22, 2016 – Who would have ever guessed that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was once a banned book? In support of the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week, The University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library will host a Banned Books Open Reading...