The J. Willard Marriott Library celebrates this week through tabling events, displays and a featured speaker. This year, associate professor and author Emily Knox will be speaking on October 2nd on the topic of “Book Banning, the Culture War and the Election.” ...
Radical! A Retrospective of Twentieth Century Dissent A Rare Books Exhibition Level 4, Special Collections Exhibition Gallery J. Willard Marriott, The University of Utah March 18 through June 17, 2022 This exhibition is free and open to the public. This exhibition was originally curated in the summer of 2020 — amid...
“The Victorian Popular Culture database is particularly important as it consists largely of ephemera. These are historical sources that were not produced to last and thus have survived largely by chance,” explained Professor Nadja Durbach, a Professor of History at the University of Utah. She...
Last semester, Rare Books loaned six of its medieval manuscript facsimiles to the Merrill-Cazier Library at Utah State University in collaboration with an art history course taught by Professor Alexa Sand. The upper-level course, “Special Topics Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Art: Rare Books...
Rich in imagery and fantastical in nature, La Trama Celeste by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Para Las Seis Cuerdas by Jorge Luis Borges are the two newest additions to the Rare Books Latin American collection. Every country has a history – that is certain. If we...
Vojvodjanski zbornik: almanah. vols. 1 (1938) and 2 (1939) Novi Sad: S.n., 1938-1939 xPG1400 I5 V64 This journal of art and culture was produced in Vojvojdina, an autonomous province of Serbia, on the eve of the second World War. The journal, published in these two issues only, assembled...