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WE RECOMMEND — ARCHIVING THE ARCHIVESJoin us this month to learn more about the History of Special Collections at the Marriott Library with Archiving the...
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Rare Books Digital Exhibit — A History of Special CollectionsThe Rare Books Department and Special Collections welcomes U back to school with our latest digital exhibition, A History of Special...
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We Recommend – Dia de Los Muertos: Hecho en UtahThe Day of the Dead is an indigenous-based celebration to honor ancestors and to center the cycle of life-death in collective memories. In...
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Book of the Week – A Coptic ConundrumWhen the name of Western Americana, Rare Books, and University Archives was changed to “ Special Collections ” in 1971, it reflected a...
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Book of the Week — Prothalamion & Epithalamion: The Wedding Songs of Edmund Spenser“… And ye high heavens, the temple of the gods, In which a thousand torches flaming bright Doe burne, that to us...
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Book of the week — Color Standards and Color NomenclatureColor Standards and Color Nomenclature Robert Ridgway (1850-1925) Washington, D. C.: The author, 1912 QC495 R5 Robert Ridgway,...
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License to Print in the Name of the King“To the King, the French Constitution, and the laws of the realm…” Brevet de libraire: au nom du roi …...
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Now on Display! A History of Special CollectionsCo-curated by Lyuba Basin and Rachel Ernst Level 4, Special Collections Exhibition Gallery J. Willard Marriott, The University of...
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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,...
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Book of the Week — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus“The world is everything, and that is the case.” Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951)...
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Book of the Week — Earth Day Cards: Eight Meditations“ What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;...
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Now on Display! Fiber /// Liber : The Relationship of Textiles and TextFiber /// Liber: The Relationship of Textiles and Text A Rare Books Exhibition Level 4, Special Collections Exhibition Gallery...
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Book of the Week — An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex…“There remains nothing more, but to shew that there are some necessary Qualifications to be acquir’d, some good Improvements to be made by...
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We Recommend — The Art and History of BooksRegistration for this event is currently full, but please look forward to future events with the Rare Books department. There is a word...
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Book of the Week — Apologie du Silence en AmourSilence, then, becomes the companion of lovers… Apologie du Silence en Amour V. L. P. Paris: de l’imprimerie de P....
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Journal of the Week — Cope’s Smoke Room Booklets“ At a time when the proliferation of cheap newspapers and magazines was designed to strike the lowest common denominator of popular...
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Book of the Week — Hokusai Manga“Even as a ghost my spirit will want to roam the fields of summer.” — The Old Man Mad about Art Hokusai Manga...
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Celebrating the Life and Art of John Held, Jr. (1889-1958)“Fitzgerald christened it the Jazz Age, but John Held, Jr. set its style and manners. His angular and scantily clad flapper was...
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The Hunt for the Old Rock WallA frequent task here in the Rare Book office at the Marriott Library is cataloging and archiving new books that have been donated or...
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Book of the Week — Civil Dis-course: A Holiday Tool Kit“Let’s have a civil conversation! We agree to respect one another as we talk and listen. No eye-rolling. No...
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Book of the Week — The Case for Spirit Photography“ Where there is no imagination, there is no horror .” ― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet (1887) The Case for...
