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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Feb 12, 2025 Alberta Hunt Nicholson, Pilot in WWII

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The year was 1943, and the United States was now heavily engaged in WWII on both the European and Pacific fronts. It was also the year that Alberta Hunt Nicholson, a resident of Salt Lake City, joined the Women’s Airforce Service Project (WASP), aiding in...

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Jul 27, 2023 New Library Produced Podcast – Ascent Archive: Oral Histories with Rock Climbers

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Tallie Casucci, librarian, rock climber, and now oral historian, teamed up with Rachel Wittmann, librarian and podcast lover, to create a podcast of oral histories hosted by the J. Willard Marriott Digital Library. The Ascent Archive: Interviews with Rock Climbers podcast features oral histories collected by...

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May 02, 2023 Does This Name Sound Familiar?

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Does the name Barbara Yamada sound familiar? Barbara has been volunteering and donating to the Marriott Library for more than two decades. She has chaired the Ski Affair, the library’s annual benefit gala for the Ski and Snow Sports Archives, for over 20 years. She...

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Apr 07, 2022 Remembering Merrill Bitter

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Merrill Bitter passed away on January 20, 2022, while backcountry skiing in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Bitter was an active rock climber, skier, and outdoor enthusiast. He was well-known for pushing rock climbing grades and always offering advice and assistance as a former REI manager and...

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Aug 10, 2021 El Sol: A newspaper builds la comunidad in Southwest Utah

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When 21-year-old Kevin Jenkins returned from his LDS mission in Ecuador, he promised himself he would not let his hard-won Spanish language skills deteriorate. He completed a B.A. in Spanish Translation at Brigham Young University, then went on to serve his local LDS church as...

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Nov 05, 2020 Gifts of Providence: How an 1881 Help-Wanted ad won a 21st century Utah Supreme Court case

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By Tina Kirkham For most of Utah's history, it was understood that rivers and streams are public resources—even when they may run through private land. The state Supreme Court codified this understanding into law in 2008, when it unanimously upheld the right to fish a one-mile...

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Oct 01, 2020 Rock the Vote: First Female Vote Was Cast in Utah

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A major milestone in the women’s suffrage movement occurred on February 14, 1870, about 150 years ago. A woman by the name of Seraph Young, a schoolteacher from Salt Lake City, stopped at the polls on her way to work to cast her vote in...

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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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Jul 05, 2018 Documenting 75 Years at Hill Air Force Base

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By Tina Kirkham In time for the nation's 242nd birthday, Marriott Library is celebrating an exciting new addition to Utah Digital Newspapers. A complete run of The Hilltop Times, the official newspaper of Hill Air Force Base, is being digitized and placed online.¹ The bombers that defeated...

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