Apr 14, 2017 Campaign Unites Students to Thank Librarians
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...
Apr 10, 2017 Book of the Week — Cilantro, sage, rosemary and thyme
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="241"] Miscellanies Daines Barrington (1727-1800) London: Printed by J. Nichols, sold by B. White, 1781 First edition AC7 B34 1781[/caption] “What we saw of the country leaves us no doubt of its fertility, and that it is capable of producing all the plants...
Apr 03, 2017 Book of the Week — Dictionnaire des Proverbes Francais
“Le’sprit qu’on veut avoir gâte celuis qu’on a.” DICTIONNAIRE DES PROVERBES FRANCAIS Pierre de La Mésangère (1761-1831) Paris: Treuttel & Wurz: 1823 Third edition PN6451 L3 1823 Published anonymously in its first and second editions, Pierre de La Mésangère’s Dictionnaire is still in print today. Professor of literature and philosophy at...
Mar 31, 2017 “The Books Opened My Eyes to New Possibilities:” A Visit From Utah State University Students
“It was nice being able to get lost in someone’s work and to look at books in a way that I never have before. Being able to actually hold and handle the books teaches us many things. ” Early in the cold, wet month of February,...
Mar 30, 2017 On Jon’s Desk: The Generall Historie of the Turkes, a beautiful book linking the past and the present
“What small assurance there is in mens affaires, and how subject unto change even those things are wherein we for the most part repose our greatest felicitie and blisse, (beside that the whole course of mans fraile life, by many notable examples well declareth) nothing...
Mar 29, 2017 Continuing Along Virtual Paths
Hello readers! TJ Ferrill here, with the Marriott Library’s Creative Spaces unit. We continue to see new releases in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality landscapes, with further developments on the horizon. In my previous post, I went over some details about what we’re planning with...
Mar 27, 2017 Now is the night one blue dew.
“…do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou has not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!” — John Keats from Ode on a Grecian Urn In Memoriam — Kathleen Thompson Kathleen Thompson of Michael R. Thompson Rare Books worked for several Los Angeles antiquarian booksellers,...
Mar 24, 2017 Donated Postcards Shed Light on Life of Native Utahan, Broadway Star
Recently the library’s Special Collections (Manuscripts Dept) received a donation of vintage postcards from Ken Sanders of Ken Sanders Books. Contained in the collection is a large number of postcards related to the life and career of the actress Maude Adams, the first woman in...
Mar 23, 2017 The Media Studios in the Marriott Library are now open LATE
“Creativity does not happen between the hours of 9 & 5” In fact, for most people sparks of genius arrive late into the evening. To meet the needs of our students, staff, & faculty, the Media Studios (Audio & Video) in the Faculty Center (1705) will...
Mar 22, 2017 Book of the Week — The Farmer’s Diary, or, Beers’ Ontario Almanack, for the Year of our Lord 1824
“This month is generally ushered in with boisterous wind and nipping frosts. The hapless mariner beholds his vessel wrecked upon the very rocks which bind his much-loved home. Vegetation perishes through severe and untimely ires!; and deluging rains, descending with impetuous force crush the springing...