Aug 20, 2024 Now on display! Record Keepers and Record Makers

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"We are all en mal d'archive: in need of archives...

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Dec 05, 2022 The Hunt for the Old Rock Wall

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A frequent task here in the Rare Book office at the Marriott Library is cataloging and archiving new books that have been donated or acquired. It is common for me to see all the new books before they get incorporated into the book "vault" and...

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Sep 25, 2020 Rare Books Virtual Lecture — What You See With Your Eyes

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"Do not believe more than what you see with your eyes." -- Montezuma to Cortés, according to Cortés, 1519 Rare Books invites you to view its most recent virtual lecture, "What You See With Your Eyes." Why are texts written? and for whom? Why are texts recorded...

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Sep 23, 2020 Rare Books Virtual Lecture — A Drop in the Ocean

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“No swellings tell that winds may be upon some far-off happier sea- No heavings hint that winds have been on seas less hideously serene.” — Edgar Allan Poe, “The City in the Sea” Rare Books invites you to view its most recent virtual lecture, "A Drop in the Ocean." Learn...

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Jul 06, 2020 Book of the Week — Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah

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"After following some miles down the ravine upon which we had encamped, we struck upon an Indian lodge-trail, leading either to Cache Valley or to Ogden's Hole. This we followed in nearly a southerly direction, crossing many deep hollows and very steep ridges, up which...

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May 22, 2020 Book of the Week — La Navtica Rilvcente o’ sia Diario Della Navigazione

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"Navigation...

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Jul 29, 2019 Book of the Week — Cartographic Fragmentations

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May 02, 2019 We recommend — Shakespeare’s Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment: The Early Modern ‘Fated Sky’

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Nov 12, 2018 Book of the Week — Geographie des dames, ou, Almanach geographique-historique

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"[This] little work...

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Mar 15, 2018 Book of the Week — Atlas céleste de flamsteed…

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“Newton’s design was to make me come to him, force me to comply with his humors, and flatter him and cry him up as Dr. Halley did. He thought to work me to his ends by putting me to extraordinary charges. Those that have begun...

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