Jul 27, 2017 Welcoming Four New Employees!

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We are delighted to welcome three new full time employees to the Marriott Library. We look forward to their great work and their contributions to help students with all they need to succeed....

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Jul 27, 2017 Library, Faculty Members, and University of Rochester Press Collaborate on Publishing

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Catherine Mayes, Professor of Musicology at the University of Utah, and Emily H. Green, Assistant Professor of Music at George Mason University, co-edited the new publication Consuming Music: Individuals, Institutions, Communities, 1730-1830. A collection of essays examining the consumer distribution of music in the eighteenth...

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Jun 20, 2017 6 Riveting Reads for Your Summer Climbs

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This year's Spring Commencement featured mountaineer and U alum Conrad Anker as the featured speaker. Dr. Gregory C. Thompson, Associate Dean for Special Collections and Alfred Mowdood, Head of Faculty Services and Librarian, were both involved in events around Conrad Anker and his bestowal of an honorary doctorate...

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Jun 19, 2017 Students from Ute Reservation Have Stories to Tell

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It’s the kind of story that you’d like to hear every single day. A group of students from the Uintah Basin – the majority from the Ute Reservation – come to the University of Utah for a week-long workshop where they learn the art of...

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Jun 07, 2017 Data or it didn’t happen: Launching an institutional data repository at the U

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Reproducibility. Transparency. Sharing. These words represent the gold standard in academic research, yet none of them are as ubiquitous as one might imagine or hope. At the University of Utah, a team of librarians and technologists from the Marriott, Eccles Health Sciences, and Faust Law...

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Apr 19, 2017 Downwinder Population of Southern Utah Asked to Provide Oral Histories 

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Staff from The University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library will be in southern Utah collecting oral histories on the impact of nuclear testing on individuals and their families. ...

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Apr 14, 2017 Campaign Unites Students to Thank Librarians

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Students came to level two of the library during National Library Week to share their gratitude for the staff, spaces, and services that libraries provide. Many students, like those pictured below, were grateful for the many quiet study spaces and the comfy "womb chairs". Others...

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Jan 19, 2017 Congratulations to Associate Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication, Rick Anderson

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The American Library Association’s  ALA Editions published a collection of essays, articles, white papers, and lectures entitled Libraries, Leadership, and Scholarly Communication: Essays by Rick Anderson, which recently received a starred review in Library Journal. Anderson, who serves as Associate Dean for Collections &...

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Jan 18, 2017 Digging into Utah mining history through the Kennecott Copper Corporation records

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The Manuscripts Division of Special Collections is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant to arrange and preserve unprocessed materials from the Kennecott Copper Corporation records. ...

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Dec 19, 2016 Book Collector’s Evening to Feature Pulitzer Prize Winning Author

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Michael Dirda, a Pulitzer Prize winning author and weekly book columnist for The Washington Post, will speak at the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Book Collector’s Evening, a benefit event for Special Collections. The event, which also includes a reception, silent auction, and dinner, is sponsored...

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