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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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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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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Jan 17, 2023 130 years of Utah College Newspapers

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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...

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Sep 09, 2022 The Sourdough Roundup

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  "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...

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Jun 28, 2022 Critical decade of Hill Air Force Base newspaper now online

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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...

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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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