Apr 22, 2023 Book of the Week — Earth Day Cards: Eight Meditations

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"What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wildness yet...

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Apr 10, 2023 Now on Display! Fiber /// Liber : The Relationship of Textiles and Text

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Fiber /// Liber: The Relationship of Textiles and Text A Rare Books Exhibition Level 4, Special Collections Exhibition Gallery J. Willard Marriott, The University of Utah March 31 through June 23, 2023 This exhibition is free and open to the public. There is a clear etymological root between the words text...

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Mar 08, 2023 Book of the Week — An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex…

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“There remains nothing more, but to shew that there are some necessary Qualifications to be acquir’d, some good Improvements to be made by Ingenious Gentlemen in the Company of our Sex. Of this number are Complacence, Gallantry, Good Humour, Invention, and an Art…” An Essay in...

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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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Mar 01, 2023 We Recommend — The Art and History of Books

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Registration for this event is currently full, but please look forward to future events with the Rare Books department. There is a word that describes a person who loves to read, admire and collect books. That word is bibliophile, and bibliophiles have existed since antiquity...

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Feb 14, 2023 Book of the Week — Apologie du Silence en Amour

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Silence, then, becomes the companion of lovers...

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Feb 09, 2023 A Peek at Darwin’s Pivotal “On the Origin of Species”

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Did you know that Special Collections holds a first edition of Charles Darwin’s “Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection,” published in 1859 and signed by Darwin himself? ...

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Jan 31, 2023 Journal of the Week — Cope’s Smoke Room Booklets

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"At a time when the proliferation of cheap newspapers and magazines was designed to strike the lowest common denominator of popular taste, the Tobacco Plant did its substantial bit to maintain a lively interest in literary topics among ordinary middle-class readers. Seldom, before or since,...

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Jan 23, 2023 Book of the Week — Hokusai Manga

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"Even as a ghost my spirit will want to roam the fields of summer." — The Old Man Mad about Art Hokusai Manga Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) Nagoya: Eirakuya Toshiro,1814-1878 NE1325 K3 H64 vol.14 To the modern Western world there is, perhaps, one image that stands out above the rest as being emblematic of...

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Jan 10, 2023 Celebrating the Life and Art of John Held, Jr. (1889-1958)

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"Fitzgerald christened it the Jazz Age, but John Held, Jr. set its style and manners. His angular and scantily clad flapper was accepted by scandalized elders as the prototype for modern youth, the symbol of our moral revolution… So sedulously did we ape his caricatures...

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