Apr 02, 2025 New Digital Collections and additions for January-March 2025

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Digital Library Services and Special Collections collaborate to make unique and rare materials available in the Digital Library. The collections listed below represent the work of archivists, staff, student workers, and librarians to ensure that digital collections are discoverable in the Digital Library and preserved...

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Mar 07, 2023 Digital Exhibit on Utah’s Air Quality History Features Early Women Environmentalists

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The Wasatch Front region of Utah, home to most of the state’s population, has a long history of poor air quality and civic action to push for air quality reform. The J. Willard Marriott Library’s new digital exhibit The History of Air Quality in Utah...

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May 03, 2022 Digitizing 133 years of Salt Lake Tribune newspapers

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Researchers, historians and genealogists now have an additional 1.6 million pages of the Salt Lake Tribune, at their fingertips. ...

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Feb 02, 2022 Historically Black Newspapers, Databases and Oral Histories for Black History Month

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Students, faculty and staff have access to loads of databases. Here are some hand-picked for Black History Month...

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Oct 19, 2020 Contribute to the COVID-19 Digital Collection and get a chance to win an e-reader!

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University of Utah Students will be entered into a drawing for an e-reader when they contribute to the COVID-19 Digital Collection, which has been created to document the changes at the University of Utah and greater Utah community during the COVID-19 pandemic....

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May 04, 2020 Read About the 1918 Flu Pandemic Through Utah Digital Newspapers

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The Marriott Library has been building the Utah Digital Newspapers (UDN) program for nearly twenty years. By digitizing newspapers, the library is able to open up new methods for conducting research by making the full text of all articles keyword searchable....

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Apr 23, 2020 Access to Utah Newspapers

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For twenty years, the Marriott Library has been digitizing, preserving, and making newspapers from around the state available through the Utah Digital Newspapers project. We currently have over 6 million pages of Utah newspapers freely available there. Another 2.8 million pages have been digitized and are...

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Apr 09, 2020 Utah COVID-19 Digital Collection

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Have you ever wanted to be a part of history? Well, guess what? YOU ARE! By living through the pandemic of 2020, you are making history and we need your help. The Utah COVID-19 Digital Collection Project has been created to document the response from the University of...

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Mar 20, 2020 Utah Ghost Towns Digital Exhibit

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The newest digital exhibit from the Marriott Library’s Digital Library focuses on Utah’s ghost towns—settlements that have either been abandoned or lost most of their population. There are various kinds of ghost towns, but primary reason why a town dies is that the...

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Mar 11, 2020 Utah Religious Architecture Photograph Collection

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In late February, the Marriott Library’s Digital Library Services launched a new collection of contemporary photographs of religious buildings in the state of Utah. Growing out of a 2018 collection covering the religious structures of Salt Lake City, this project aims to extend...

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