It’s 1938 and three young Parisians have set out on an adventure of a lifetime – to travel halfway across the world and take kayaks down the untamed Green and Colorado rivers. Newlyweds Genevieve and Bernard de Colmont along with their friend, Antoine de Seynes,...
As blades of grass begin to peek through receding snow and we shed our winter parkas, fans of America’s favorite pastime quiver with the anticipation of hearing the phrase, “play ball!” Whether we’ve driven 2,372 miles to see our favorite center fielder play on the...
After 17 years of unfolding, unsticking and washing 140,000 newspaper clippings, the conservators in the Marriott Library's Preservation Department have uncovered fascinating historical details of life at The University of Utah from 1915-1950. ...
Congratulations to Randy Silverman, Head of Preservation at the Marriott Library! Randy will be receiving the 2016 Gardner Prize from the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters at the annual conference being held March 10 at Westminster College. The Gardner Prize is awarded every...
The Walter R. Jones Collection on the Vietnam and Indochina Wars is a recent and important addition to the Special Collections Print and Journal collections. The collection is an extensive repository of journals and books, fiction and non-fiction, bearing upon the French and American experience...
Exhibition Details: February 19 – May 1, 2016 Special Collections Gallery, 4th floor Free and open to the public Special Collections at J. Willard Marriott Library collects extensively on the topic of outdoor recreation in Utah and the surrounding region. Whether it's river running, skiing, hiking, climbing, snowboarding, or other...
That’s right: the library has teamed up with University Information Technology and T-Mobile to allow students to checkout mobile hotspot devices. These hotspots are available at the Marriott Library for a free three-day checkout to current University of Utah students, staff, and faculty. Patrons can use...
The Book Arts Program at the J. Willard Marriott Library is pleased to announce our 2016 community workshop series! Over the course of the year, we’re offering various classes in encaustics, paper decoration, letterpress printing, leather binding and much more. Guest instructors include Julianna Christie, Karen...
These days almost anybody can make a movie. People capture single moments on their phones or edit complex masterpieces with affordable, high quality equipment and post them online for fellow hobbyists and entertainment seekers to look at and discuss....
Did you know that through the Marriott Library’s subscription to Swank Digital Campus over two hundred studio films and documentaries are available to view for any University of Utah student, staff or faculty? Films in the Swank Digital Campus database have been requested by U of...