Aug 20, 2024 Now on display! Record Keepers and Record Makers
"We are all en mal d'archive: in need of archives...
May 01, 2023 Book of the Week — Local Conditions
"Out of the forest at last there stood the mountain, wholly unveiled, awful in bulk and majesty, filling all the view like a separate, new-born world, yet withal so fine and so beautiful it might well fire the dullest observer to desperate enthusiasm." — John Muir,...
Jul 19, 2021 Press of the Week — Porte Publishing Company
"Printing is the Inseparable Companion of Achievement" — Roy Trewin Porte Roy Trewin Porte was born on May 8, 1876 in Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada. When he was just five years old he moved to the states with his widowed mother, settling in Casselton, North Dakota. Porte’s mother likely did...
Sep 02, 2020 Books of the Week — Antarktikos
Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of Heaven, who hath gendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone. And the face of the deep is frozen --Book of Job 38: 29-30 Carte de l'amérique corrigée, et augmentée Petrus Bertius (1565-1629) Paris?,...
Jul 22, 2019 Book of the week — Mediaeval in Padua
"But these kinds of problems are an understood part of how I choose to go about making books. The goal is to learn by doing, a process that often involves diving headlong into something for which I am thoroughly unprepared. I can't locate exactly what...
Jul 19, 2019 Today, Rare Books. Tomorrow, the Moon!
“Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra...
Oct 04, 2018 We recommend — Book as Archive & Enclosure
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Oct 02, 2018 Legacy of the Lost: Exploring one of Utah’s Most Enduring Mysteries
Here at the University of Utah, most 20 year olds are happily entrenched in their undergraduate experience. They spend their time studying and doing coursework, socializing with friends, and working various part-time jobs. However, at 20 years old, Everett Ruess led a much different life....
May 26, 2018 Rare Books Help Illustrate VERVE, Season 6, Episode 1
Several pieces from the rare book collections were used to help illustrate “What Makes A Book So Special,” episode 1, season 6, Its All About the Book, from VERVE, featuring Marnie Powers-Torry, director of the Book Arts Program....
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