Mike Furlough, Executive Director of HathiTrust, will be visiting the Marriott Library on Thursday, Jan 28. Staff and faculty of The University of Utah are welcome to attend the two sessions listed below. This should be a very interesting morning. We hope you can participate! Sessions...
This kind note came to us from a happy patron who was looking for proof that a particular meringue dessert actually had existed at one point in human history. After spending many hours unsuccessfully searching for the elusive meringue a la russe recipe, the patron,...
It’s the time of year when everyone is thinking about calorie content and exercise. But promoting health and wellness is a campus priority here at the U, and the library is serious about being a part of that initiative....
This semester, Amy Brunvand, a librarian subject specialist for environmental & sustainability studies, is starting up a new book group "in hopes that people from across the campus community can come together to share ideas and conversation about sustainability." ...
Congratulations to Allison Leialoha Milham, Book Arts Outreach Coordinator, who won a Best of Show Award in the Blood Quantum exhibition (Portland, Oregon), which is focused on Book Arts dealing with the subject of ancestry and identity. Her work Uluhaimalama: Legacies of Lili’uokalani is a...
Check out the Library's holiday greeting card. Thank you to all of our friends and patrons for making 2015 such a great year....
It’s called multi-tasking… You work full time at the library, you’re completing your graduate degree, and you’re a co-founder of a mobile gaming company, with a game on the Apple App Store. This is the story of our very own Topher Nadauld, Systems Administrator in the...
It’s crunch time — also known as Geek Week — the week prior to semester finals when students are working like mad to complete assignments and cramming for final exams. Here at the Marriott Library, we have extended late hours and offer numerous activities aimed...
Brigham Young, Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith: these are three of the most highly recognized names in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These names, and many others, are part of a significant collection of original manuscripts recently donated to...
The covers of a book enclose worlds constructed of text and image. To open a book is to expose the intimate details of story, experience and idea. Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library since 1995, the Book Arts Program champions wide-ranging explorations of the...