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...
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...
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...
They were young then. Through wars, economic depression, social unrest, shifting demographics, and rapid technological change, Utah's college students documented their lives and interests in the pages of the newspapers they produced. The library's digital newspaper repository, Utah Digital Newspapers, includes more than 21,000 issues...
"When Charlie Redd throws a party, everybody from 2 counties comes." The Marriott Digital Library often receives feedback from the public regarding persons and events depicted in historical photos. In early 2020, such an inquiry was received from the grandson of one of the...
The 2005-2015 decade was an eventful one for Hill Air Force Base. Utah airmen were deployed to Iraq. The base commemorated its 75th anniversary. It broke ground on a $2.1 million upgrade to the 75th Medical Group Facility, which provides primary care to active-duty military...
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...
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...
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...
University of Utah Students will be entered into a drawing for an e-reader when they contribute to the COVID-19 Digital Collection, which has been created to document the changes at the University of Utah and greater Utah community during the COVID-19 pandemic....