Tuesday, February 12 6:00PM Alta Club 100 East South Temple Salt Lake City, Utah A Rare Book Rogue in Texas: The Crimes and Misdemeanors of Johnny Jenkins In 1975, John Jenkins engineered the largest rare book coup of the twentieth century – the purchase of the legendary Eberstadt inventory of rare...
“Imagine New Heights.” It’s the U’s new fundraising campaign and how fitting it is for the library. The library’s core fundraising goals, outlined below, reflect a dedication to students and faculty and a vision that aligns closely with the U’s new President, Dr. Ruth Watkins....
Juli Hinz is an Emeritus Librarian who retired in 2011 after working nearly 36 years in the Marriott Library and has served as Chair of the Friends of the Marriott Library Advisory Board for the past three years....
By Luke Leither I was asked this week to visit a Graphic Design class along with favorite items from the Fine Arts & Architecture Collection. The class is examining the history of publication and how artists, designers, and editors have shifted expectations around the form and...
By Justin Sorensen GIS (Geospatial Information Systems) are utilized by many fields and industries throughout the world. To highlight some of these fields, our Map Monday releases for the 2019 Spring Semester will provide examples of ways GIS can be employed within the work performed by...
“…by an ever greater and greater desire, the soul keeps rising constantly to another that lies ahead, and thus it makes its way through ever higher regions towards the Transcendent.” Divi Gregorii, episcopie Nysseni, fratris Basilii Magni, opera quae adipisci licuit omnia...
In a previous post, I announced the Digital Preservation in Libraries: Preparing for a Sustainable Future book that I was privileged to edit and was recently published by ALA Editions. Within this book, I had the opportunity to co-author a chapter with Tawnya Keller. This chapter, titled...
"They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love." -- St Basil the Great Commentaries St. Gregory (325?- & St. Basil (329-379) 9th c. AH/15th c. CE This manuscript, written on polished laid paper, is an Arabic translation from a Greek or Coptic original of...