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Marriott Library Collaborates on Award-Winning Online Course

April 23, 2008 – This March, a University of Utah course created by Languages and Literature professor Christine A. Jones in collaboration with Luise Poulton, curator of the Rare Books Division of the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library, received a 2007-08 Innovative Course Design Competition Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
The idea of the course budded from Dr. Jones’s idea to incorporate rare books into the study of French theater of the 17th and 18th centuries. During spring semester 2006, the graduate and undergraduate students of French 4900/7900 wrote essays based upon their research relying on rare books from the Marriott Library. The essays are now part of a website created collaboratively by Dr. Jones and Luise Poulton. The site is designed to be useful to researchers of theater, dance, music, French culture, and early modern history, showcasing rare books from the Marriott Library’s collection. It is a unique archive of online resources and serves as a portal into the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Digital Collections, which includes scanned rare books, maps, newspapers, and journals in searchable format. The web archive is called Dramatis Personae Archive, A History of 17th and 18th Century Performance Arts. (Read more)

Upcoming Book Arts Workshops:

Shape, Scrape and Paint: Altering Surfaces Intensive Workshop June 4th through 7th , 9:00-5:00 Instructor: Don Glaister, Washington Place: Book Arts Studio, Marriott Library, 1st floor Workshop fee: $300; Materials fee: $55 For more information please contact Amber at 801.585.9191 or amber.heaton@utah.edu. Funded in part by the Utah Arts Council

Cracking the Code with Mixmaster Scrap Intensive Workshop June 10th, 11th, 13th &14th, 9:00-5:00 Instructor: Tim Ely, Washington Place: ART 362, Art and Architecture Building Workshop Fee: $300; Materials Fee: $55 For more information please contact Amber at 801.585.9191 or amber.heaton@utah.edu.

Locked Away in Private Collections: Works Seldom Seen Cosponsored Lecture June 5th 7:00 Speaker: Don Glaister Place: Seminar Room 1130, Harold B. Lee Library, Level 1, Brigham Young University. This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at 801.422.3514.

Faculty and graduate students tell the library that the journal collection is their major concernMost of our subscriptions are well used, good value for money, or are held by few other libraries. The review list has the titles, however worthy, which seem to have the weakest relative claim to be read, cost-effective, or unique. If the titles support active programs and university priorities, we’d like to learn more about that context from you. Please send your explanations to barbara.cox@utah.edu (Barbara Cox, 7-9167) by June 20, 2008. (More)