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ULA Fall Workshop 2013

18 Wednesday Sep 2013

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Join us at the Utah Library Association’s Fall Workshop: “From Folklore to Technology.”
Luise Poulton and colleagues from the Utah Valley University Library and Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library discuss the many ways Utah’s academic libraries reach the community at large with their Special Collections. The panel discussion, “Explore, Enrich, Engage: Taking Special Collections and Rare Books to the Community,” begins at 1:30.

For more information go to: http://www.ula.org/content/program-ula-fall-workshop-2013

When: 27 September 2013
Where: Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University

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Rare Books Welcomes CBAA

10 Tuesday Sep 2013

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The Book Arts Program at the J. Willard Marriott Library hosts the 2014 College Book Arts Association meeting with Print, Produce, Publish in January 2014.

The conference features a variety of events including member’s exhibition, invited speakers, panel presentations, studio demonstrations, roundtable discussions, vendor’s fair, Salt Lake City area tours, local exhibitions, student member portfolio reviews, members’ showcase, auction and Cornered – a folded-form exchange.

As part of the conference, the Rare Books Division offers two hands-on sessions of forty artists’ books selected from the rare book collections by Luise Poulton, on Thursday, January 2.

On Friday, January 3, Luise moderates the panel discussion, “Artists’ Book Collections and the Classroom.”

For more information and to register, please go to the conference webpage.

See you there!

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Rare Books Contributes to Montana Exhibit

22 Thursday Aug 2013

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Montana State Parks recently installed a new educational exhibit interpreting the life-ways and material culture of the Bitteroot Salish when Lewis and Clark encountered them in 1805. An image of “Indians Hunting the Bison,” a Karl Bodmer aquatint held in the rare book collections, was used as part of an interpretive banner for the exhibit. Vernon Carroll, interpretive specialist, Travelers Rest State Park, Lolo, Montana writes, “[The] image enhances the visitor’s experience.” Road trip!

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Karl Bodmer, Indians Hunting the Bison, 1839

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Artists’ Books Collection Anchors English Course

12 Friday Jul 2013

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English 2510 Fall 2013 flyer

Introduction to Creative Writing with Book Arts

THIS MEDIUM SPECIFIC APPROACH to creative writing introduces
emerging writers to the techniques and craft of inventive
writing as well as book arts. Students will consider the
generative process as a performance within a medium
and how the interplay of form and content operate within
the physics of that medium. The course includes six visits
to the Book Arts Studio at the Marriott Library, during
which students will view artists’ books from Rare Books,
get hands-on experience with bookbinding and letterpress
printing from moveable type, and collaborate to produce
a limited-edition book, of which every participant will
receive a copy. As a variation on the final portfolio, students
will be encouraged to produce chapbooks for their final
projects. In both the studio and classroom, we will ask:
What is a book? How might a book’s shape transfigure its
meaning? How do typographic decisions affect creative
texts? What is a creative text? No prior experience in the
book arts or imaginative writing is required.

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University of Utah rare books featured in University of Washington graduate student capstone project

19 Wednesday Jun 2013

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Alison Conner, Rare Books Curator and MLIS candidate at the University of Washington, used rare books as the focus of her capstone project. Based on a physical exhibition Alison curated in 2012 as another school project, Alison designed and produced a collaborative, multimedia, online exhibition. Visit fightingwordsonline.org for a virtual tour of the American Revolution, told through the words of those who fought it. Videos, scanned images, and text work together to enhance the experience. Alison worked with faculty and students from the University of Utah’s Theater department, Film and Media Arts department; and staff from the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Scholarship and Information Services and Special Collections’ Rare Books Division.

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Adventures of a Rare Books Curator

21 Friday Sep 2012

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Kim Mangun, assistant professor, Department of Communication, writes an excellent article exploring the role of technology in teaching, learning, and experiencing history in the modern world.

In this article she recounts her own experiences with history and technology. One example is an adventure she shares with Luise Poulton, Rare Books Managing Curator, when they try to attend an exclusive showing of the new motion picture, Lincoln.

Intelligencer, American Journalism Historians Association Newsletter, Fall 2012

Washington Post Review

15 Friday Jun 2012

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The Washington Post review of the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition, 1812: A Nation Emerges featuring Karl Bodmer Aquatint from Rare Books.

Rare Books Goes to Washington!

15 Friday Jun 2012

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‘”1812: A Nation Emerges,” a bicentennial exhibition organized by the National Portrait Gallery, commemorates a crucial moment in American history.

Through the gathering of stunning portraits by masters such as Gilbert Stuart, and unique objects such as a red velvet dress that belonged to Dolley Madison and the Treaty of Ghent that ended the war, “1812” presents a spectacular history of the conflict and its effects through the lives of extraordinary people.

The war of 1812 may have been a small war, but it had great consequences for our nation.’

Rare Books’ Karl Bodmer Aquatint Hangs in the National Portrait Gallery Exhibition

Congratulations, Katherine!

21 Monday May 2012

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Congratulations to Katherine Paterson, rare books assistant. She is one of five recipients of the Marriott Library Scholarship. Read her winning essay.

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Associated Press – Nuremberg Chronicle

25 Wednesday Apr 2012

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500-year-old Nuremberg Chronicle book surfaces in Utah

“Luise Poulton, curator and head of rare books at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library, called it “an exciting find,” but largely just because of the way it surfaced.

‘It’s that classic story,” said Poulton, who has several pages from another copy of a Nuremberg Chronicle on display. “You really never know what’s in your attic.'”