In Memoriam — Marie Christensen Dern (October 17, 1936-May 22, 2020)
Last year, on May 22, Rare Books lost our dear friend, Marie Christensen Dern. On that day, like the rest of the world, we were sheltering in place. We were locked out of our office, and more disorientingly, out of the Rare Books Vault. We...
22 May, 2021
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Rare Books Digital Exhibition — Sassy Faith
from The Book and the Great Community, J. Willard Marriott Library, 1994 On May 17, 1968, Wallace Stegner delivered a dedicatory address to the new Marriott Library, in which he said: "To erect a great library in the year 1968 is an act of stubborn and sassy...
22 September, 2020
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Rare Books Digital Exhibition — Glimpse
The covers of a book enclose worlds constructed of text and image. To open a book is to expose the intimate details of story, experience and idea. The Book Arts Program at the J. Willard Marriott Library champions wide-ranging explorations of the book. A fully...
16 September, 2020
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We recommend — Strangers & Natives: A Newspaper Narrative of Early Jewish America, 1734-1869
"God forbid that any native country, whose boast is to be free and happy herself, should cease to afford to the sons and daughters of sorrow, fleeing from the wrongs and miseries of European depotism, a hearty welcome and a happy home!" -- Enoch S....
16 December, 2019
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How can the Marriott Library Help U During Finals?
The Marriott Library consists of several different areas for either personal or group study spaces. During the stressful weeks of finals, spaces are louder and more crowded than ever before....
21 November, 2019
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Censorship, Underground Presses, Pacifist Literature: Rare Books Helps Illuminate an Award-Winning Master’s Thesis
Voina (1916) // War Elegies (1944) Lyuba Basin, Rare Books Curator, has been selected to represent The University of Utah in the Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS)/ProQuest competition for the Distinguished Master's Thesis Award. The award recognizes scholarly achievement at the master's level, in both...
26 September, 2019
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A Scholastic Finding, a Scholar’s Mystery: Letters to Young Ladies on Their Entrance into the World: To Which are Added Sketches from Real Life
"Both men and women are travellers in the great journey of life: as a species, their origin, their final destinies, their moral duties, are the same. Women, equally with men, to prepare themselves for the as yet unknown paths which they may be called to...
28 May, 2019
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