Apr 06, 2023 5 Great Books for Earth Day

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Celebrate Earth Day with these five picks from Librarian Allyson Mower....

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Mar 21, 2023 5 Great Books about Common Humanity

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Celebrate Women’s History month with these five books from the library selected by Librarian Allyson Mower....

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Apr 06, 2022 Learn about Rare Books and History at the Special Collections Drop-in Hour

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Starting this semester, Special Collections Reference Librarian Rachel Ernst has been hosting weekly drop-in sessions for students to be able to learn more about the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Special Collections....

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Mar 30, 2022 Books for Poetry Month & Library Week

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It’s Women’s History Month, it’s nearly spring and Pride Week, the semester is half-way over, but the pandemic is still on!! Here are five hopefully-inspiring books for March 2022: ...

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Jun 16, 2021 5 Good Books that Offer Perspective on Drought

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Droughts have been pervasive throughout history inspiring many to write about this natural disaster. Librarian Allyson Mower has recommended these titles (both fiction and non-fiction) that feature themes and settings of droughts and how they affect us....

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Mar 02, 2021 Book of the Week — Ingress / Egress

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"A book is an architectural space where you can wander about, looking back and forth, all around, in and out, opening and closing doors — it's your room." Ingress / Egress Ellen Knudson Gainesville, FL: Crooked Letter Press, 2015 N7433.4 K58 I54 2015 Celebrated annually, Read Across America Day was...

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Dec 24, 2020 Rare Books Digital Exhibition — Ornaments: Beautiful Books Beautifully Reproduced

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Facsimiles are meticulous reproductions that convey the spirit and power of often-inaccessible, original books. A facsimile is a replica of an original book, created to look as closely the same as possible to the original through state-of-the-art electronic, digital, and conventional techniques in bookmaking. The...

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Jul 21, 2020 Rare Books Virtual Lectures

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from Paradise Lost, John Milton, 1688 “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” We miss our books, we miss holding our books, we miss our classroom, we miss our students, we miss putting our books...

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Mar 23, 2020 SHHHHHHH! A Digital Exhibition

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SHHHHHH! is a digital exhibition based on a physical exhibition in the Special Collections Gallery on display between September 9, 2015 and November 1, 2015. The exhibition marked Banned Books Week. Rare Books presented books, pamphlets, newspapers, and magazines that were banned, forbidden, censored, redacted, expurgated,...

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Sep 23, 2019 Banned! — Premiere [-seconde] parite du Directoire des contemplatifz

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