Tallie Casucci, librarian, rock climber, and now oral historian, teamed up with Rachel Wittmann, librarian and podcast lover, to create a podcast of oral histories hosted by the J. Willard Marriott Digital Library. The Ascent Archive: Interviews with Rock Climbers podcast features oral histories collected by...
Does the name Barbara Yamada sound familiar? Barbara has been volunteering and donating to the Marriott Library for more than two decades. She has chaired the Ski Affair, the library’s annual benefit gala for the Ski and Snow Sports Archives, for over 20 years. She...
Merrill Bitter passed away on January 20, 2022, while backcountry skiing in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Bitter was an active rock climber, skier, and outdoor enthusiast. He was well-known for pushing rock climbing grades and always offering advice and assistance as a former REI manager and...
When 21-year-old Kevin Jenkins returned from his LDS mission in Ecuador, he promised himself he would not let his hard-won Spanish language skills deteriorate. He completed a B.A. in Spanish Translation at Brigham Young University, then went on to serve his local LDS church as...
By Tina Kirkham For most of Utah's history, it was understood that rivers and streams are public resources—even when they may run through private land. The state Supreme Court codified this understanding into law in 2008, when it unanimously upheld the right to fish a one-mile...
A major milestone in the women’s suffrage movement occurred on February 14, 1870, about 150 years ago. A woman by the name of Seraph Young, a schoolteacher from Salt Lake City, stopped at the polls on her way to work to cast her vote in...
The Marriott Library has been building the Utah Digital Newspapers (UDN) program for nearly twenty years. By digitizing newspapers, the library is able to open up new methods for conducting research by making the full text of all articles keyword searchable....
By Tina Kirkham In time for the nation's 242nd birthday, Marriott Library is celebrating an exciting new addition to Utah Digital Newspapers. A complete run of The Hilltop Times, the official newspaper of Hill Air Force Base, is being digitized and placed online.¹ The bombers that defeated...
The Marriott Library has recently been selected for a $16,343 grant from the Department of Heritage and Arts (DHA) to digitize the historic Japanese American newspaper, The Utah Nippo....