The ten commandments of the Old Testament in Latin, Czech, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and Slovak designed as a cross. Master bookbinder Jan Bohuslav Sobota (1939-2012) was born in Czechoslovakia. He studied binding in Pilzen and Prague until 1957. In 1982 he defected...
JOHN’S RENDEZVOUS SAN FRANCISCO WINE LIST San Francisco, CA: 1940 Beverage list from “John’s Rendezvous,” a San Francisco restaurant opened by John Sobrato at 50 Osgood Place during the Prohibition. By the 1940s the restaurant had gained a reputation for its food and was considered by many...
Fleur-de-neige et d’autres contes de Grimm Paris: L’Edition d’art, 1929 French translation of twelve Brothers Grimm fairy tales, including “Hansel and Gretel,” “Rumplestiltskin,” “The Fisherman and His Wife,” “Briar Rose,” “The Goose Girl,” “The Little Brave Tailor,” “The Six Swans,” and “The Juniper Tree.” Illustrated with full-page...
Contained within the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Special Collections are thousands of historical photographs depicting areas of Utah as it once was. As time has progressed, many of these features have been destroyed to make way for future developments, resulting in the history of...
Hello everyone! The summer has really flown by already, and as we’re ramping up for Fall semester, we’re constantly trying to build and improve services here at the Library. During the course of the semester we’ve been working with several students to implement Raspberry Pi’s...
Since 2010, I have been the Audio Projects Librarian in the Marriott Library. Over the years I have been asked, from time to time, if there was a way to digitize “dead formats”. A format “dies” when the average consumer no longer maintains or possesses...
The Marriott Library has recently been selected for a $16,343 grant from the Department of Heritage and Arts (DHA) to digitize the historic Japanese American newspaper, The Utah Nippo....
THE NEXT WORD: RED SQUARE Alan Loney (b. 1940) Malvern East VIC, Australia: Electio Editions, 2012 PR9639.3 L6 N49 2012 From the artist’s statement: “This book derives from putting two small obsessions together and seeing what happens. The first is with the typographical wonder of Hendrik Werkman (1882-1945), and...
On the aftermath of the Pulse Orlando shootings, librarians, teachers, and archivists have created a list of resources (books, films, journal articles, and websites) to help people learn more about the LGBTQ and the LatinX community....
Congratulations to the Mac Group! They created a collection of scripts and management tools that were mentioned as a free resource for Mac Administrators in the "Enterprise Mac Administrator's Guide: Second Edition". From their blog: Recently, we received our order for the book “Enterprise Mac Administrator’s Guide: Second...