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....
The Utah COVID-19 Digital Collection is still accepting submissions! Do you have any stories or photos of how the pandemic has changed your daily life? Please submit photographs and stories here....
The Marriott Library has been building the Utah Digital Newspapers (UDN) program for nearly twenty years. By digitizing newspapers, the library is able to open up new methods for conducting research by making the full text of all articles keyword searchable....
For twenty years, the Marriott Library has been digitizing, preserving, and making newspapers from around the state available through the Utah Digital Newspapers project. We currently have over 6 million pages of Utah newspapers freely available there. Another 2.8 million pages have been digitized and are...
Have you ever wanted to be a part of history? Well, guess what? YOU ARE! By living through the pandemic of 2020, you are making history and we need your help. The Utah COVID-19 Digital Collection Project has been created to document the response from the University of...
The newest digital exhibit from the Marriott Library’s Digital Library focuses on Utah’s ghost towns—settlements that have either been abandoned or lost most of their population. There are various kinds of ghost towns, but primary reason why a town dies is that the...
In late February, the Marriott Library’s Digital Library Services launched a new collection of contemporary photographs of religious buildings in the state of Utah. Growing out of a 2018 collection covering the religious structures of Salt Lake City, this project aims to extend...
Every semester, Digital Library Services strives to add new digital exhibits highlighting items in our digital library and in Marriott Library Special Collections. Recently, we've added two new digital exhibits in advance of the fall semester. The Golden Spike Celebrations exhibit focuses on events commemorating the...
On May 15, 2019, Utah Digital Newspapers reached a new milestone. The three-millionth newspaper page was added!...
RootsTech is one of the largest family history conferences in the world, and we are lucky to have this conference hosted in Salt Lake City each year. I had the privilege of teaching three classes at RootsTech this year (February 27-March 2, 2019) to help...