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Jan 02, 2026 New additions to the Digital Library from October-December 2025

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We've added over 1300 new items to the Digital Library over the past three months, below are some highlights. Photos Jacqueline Nokes - (finding aid) 459 photos added. The Jacqueline Nokes photograph collection contains materials related to her career at KSL-TV in the 1960s-1980s. Also included are...

Jan 02, 2026 National Science Fiction Day

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“All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use of new metaphors drawn from certain great domains of our contemporary life—science, all the sciences, and technology, and the relativistic and the historical...

Dec 29, 2025 Book of the Week – Christmas Stamps From Around the World

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“But well or poorly designed and printed, in a collector’s album or on billions of Christmas greetings each year, each stamp has a message of its own, best expressed in the words of the original good tidings of great joy!” - Belmont Faries Dear Rare Reader, We hope...

Dec 24, 2025 Press of the Week — The Allen Press

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“One of the supreme pleasures available to man is knowledge, discipline, intelligence guiding the hand to create beautiful and intellectually desirable objects.” - Lewis Allen Dear Rare Reader, This blog post is the second in a three-part series. To read the preceding post, click here. — As we learned last week,...

Dec 19, 2025 Book of the Week — Christmas Cards and their Chief Designers

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“For if the present generation find them merely “old-fashioned,” in a few decades, they would appear “quaint” and “curious,” and finally be considered very interesting ephemerae of a very interesting period in English art production.” - Gleeson White on the subject of holiday cards Dear Rare Reader, As always,...

"Flyer for 'Commerce and Culture: A Booksellers' Panel' on November 21, 2025, at Gould Auditorium from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Includes a grid of nine black-and-white headshots of panelists with their names. Background is a warm brown with elegant white text."

Nov 03, 2025 Commerce and Culture: A Booksellers’ Panel

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Booksellers do more than sell books—they preserve history, connect readers with rare finds, and keep the literary marketplace alive. "The Peddler" from Das Ständebuch (Book of Trades) By Jost Amman & Hans Sachs New York: Dover Publications, 1973 PT1762 E8 1973 Join us on Friday, November 21 from 6:00-8:00 pm in...

A woodcut illustration depicts a group of people kneeling before a winged demon with goat legs, amid a landscape. The scene evokes fear and submission.

Oct 31, 2025 Rare Books Virtual Lecture — BOO!KS to Die For

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The Rare Books Department invites you to view its most recent virtual lecture: Books to Die for. This October has been a frighteningly busy month for the University of Utah’s Rare Books Department as we prepared for our spookiest event of the year, “BOO!ks to Die For,”...

A close-up of an old, textured paper with serif typeface text. The words "SIR" and "AFTER" are prominently printed in bold. The document exudes a historical tone.

Oct 24, 2025 The Business of Books: Watermarks

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Every page begins as a piece of paper, but not all paper is as plain as it seems. When you lift a sheet toward the light, you might notice a shadowed emblem: a fleur-de-lys, a jester, or a delicate line of text woven into the fibers....

A cartoon-style pig with a large, rounded body and small legs is illustrated in brown hues. The pig appears to be smiling, exuding a whimsical tone.

Oct 17, 2025 [Book] Artist Talk: Sandra Trujillo

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"I think about food the way I think about art and literature. I think of them all as these really simple, effective links. They all kind of create their own systems of communication." - Sandra Trujillo Wednesday, October 15, marked the final day of Hispanic Heritage Month. The...

A pair of hands holds a book with marbled edges, revealing an intricate painting of 18th-century street life, depicting men, horses, and carriages.

Oct 10, 2025 The Business of Books: Fore-edge Painting

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Some books have secrets… Have you ever noticed the decorated edges of your old books? Sometimes gilded, marbled, or speckled in red, these embellishments give the book a more precious appearance, but also add an additional protective layer for the text block. If you look more...