On Fridays throughout last spring semester, a casual observer could often walk by a table and see several people hunched over single pieces of paper, drawing, writing, and folding them into miniature publishing masterpieces called zines. Zines, pronounced zeens, are independently-made publications. The word comes...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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 &...
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. ...