In Spring 2024, a Marriott Library Ad Hoc Selections Committee invited all members of the University of Utah community to submit specific, big-ticket, one-time purchase suggestions to enhance Marriott Library’s research and teaching collections. These are some of the highlights of the suggestions purchased:

• L2 US Voter Registration Dataset
  • This extremely large dataset is housed on a server at the Center for High Performance Computing. Access will be subject to IRB and Library approval. Approved users will be granted access through the CHPC’s protected environment. Further questions can be directed to Research Data Librarians Kaylee Alexander and Madison Golden.

• A set of 5 facsimiles for teaching and researching paleography:
  • Les heures noires / Das schwarze Stundenbuch / The Black Hours
  • The Luttrell Psalter
  • Libro de horas de Besançon / Book of Hours of Besançon
  • Sanudo Virgil
  • Astronomicon libri: un poema astronomico del Quattrocento: saggi e commenti / The Astronomicon
• A collection of 10 large-format photography books
• A collection of 70 table-top games created by underrepresented designers
• A collection of 75 Oxford University Press Handbooks
  • Subjects include: Political Science, Area Studies, Justice & Criminology, Peace Studies, Gender Studies, Global Health, Digital Technology, and Economics
• A collection of 100 non-fiction titles for the Juvenile Collection
  • Series include: Countries of the World, Science comics, Children’s Visual Encyclopedias, World holiday origin stories, Little Library of Languages, Critical thinking, and Human rights

Databases and Large Publisher Agreements

Collections with significant historical and scholarly impact.

• De Gruyter University Press Library Agreement
  • Marriott Library will receive all print & e-book publications from seven university presses for the next three years.
  • In addition, Marriott Library will receive e-book editions from these same presses for all physical books already owned.
  • The links below lead to the current and future publication lists from each press:
    • Columbia University
    • Harvard University
    • Princeton University
    • Stanford University
    • University of California
    • University of Chicago
    • Yale University

• • Adam Matthew Impact Database
    • Marriott Library has purchased perpetual access to Adam Matthew Primary Source Digital Collections, including its AM Archives Direct Collections. This purchase provides access to 120 digitized collections of primary source content from medieval times to the early 21^st Subjects include:
      • Arts and humanities
      • Audiovisual
      • Global history
      • History of science and medicine
      • Newspapers
      • Politics and society
      • Regions and regional studies
      • Society and culture
    • Geographic regions covered by these materials include:
      • Africa
      • Australasia
      • Britain, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
      • Caribbean
      • Central and South America
      • East Asia
      • Europe
      • Middle East
      • North America
      • Pacific
      • Russia
      • South Asia
      • South East Asia

Journals

• Disability & Society
• Nature: Climate Change
• Scientific Robotics
• Screen Bodies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Experience, Perception, and Display
• Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking
• Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture
• Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society
• Science as Culture
• Victims and Offenders
• Mathematics Teacher Educator
• Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society
• International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Thematic Book Lists

During Spring 2024, the Ad Hoc Selection Committee analyzed library statistics (such as ILL requests and denial of access to e-books through publishers’ websites), categorized new curriculum and research areas mentioned in the University of Utah’s 2023 Academic Enterprise Plans, and invited library users to identify areas of regional expertise as well as gaps in current library collections through its Online Suggestion Form. After compiling all these data, the committee created 34 themes. Librarians with expertise in each subject area curated a cumulative list of 2914 books to be purchased.

• Aerospace Engineering
• Africa Studies
• Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
• Arts Health & Arts Education
• Autoimmune Disorders
• Bioinformatics
• Black and Afro-diasporic studies
• College Success in the Health Sciences
• Criminology
• Cultural Resources Management, Historic Preservation
• Data Science & Data Visualization
• Disability Studies
• Education
• Educational Psychology
• Financial Planning & Counseling
• Global Social Life & Customs
• Indigeneity
• Indigenous Studies: Nahuatl & Shoshone
• Israel’s foreign and domestic politics
• Literary Criticism
• Medical Humanities, Clinical Ethics, and Bioethics
• Student Mental Health & Stress
• Philosophy
• Queer Studies
• Religion Reporting
• Social Work
• Soft Skills: Critical thinking, Emotional intelligence, Leadership, and Creativity
• Sound Studies
• Sports Health & Wellbeing
• Springer Publishing Math Books
• Sustainability Studies
• Veterans
• Video Games: History, Creation, Artwork, and Criticism
• World History Studies

For items that do not have a link, please reach out to Greg Hatch, chair of the 2024 Ad Hoc Selections Committee, or the library liaison for your department, for more information.