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Jan 09, 2024

Posted at 10:30h in Online Exhibitions, Rare Books, Special Collections by
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The Rare Books Department and Special Collections welcomes U back to school with our latest digital exhibition, A History of Special Collections.  A New Family Encylopedia Charles A. Goodrich (1790-1862) T. Belknap, 1834 AG5 G6 1834 From the John R. Park Library Collection. Co-curated by Lyuba Basin and Rachel Ernst, this digital...

Aug 22, 2023

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Co-curated by Lyuba Basin and Rachel Ernst Level 4, Special Collections Exhibition Gallery J. Willard Marriott, The University of Utah August 21, 2023 through December 8, 2023 For the curators, archivists, and librarians working in Special Collections Divisions across the state and the country, maintaining a historical record through...

Apr 04, 2022

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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...

Aug 23, 2021

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The Rare Books Department welcomes U back to school! Do you have your textbooks ready? How about your reading primers? Primers were a type of textbook that taught students how to read. Initially, they contained "primary" or fundamental religious materials. Reference to primers appears in English...