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The University of Colorado Boulder Libraries are now members of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA), a collaborative consortium of organizations dedicated to the long-term preservation of digital information. The University Libraries collects cultural heritage materials primarily through the Special Collections, Archives and Preservation department, though we also gather materials...

Members of the Student Libraries Advisory Board (SLAB) joined faculty from the CU Boulder Archives to celebrate the inaugural Student Zine collection and the students contributing their works to it earlier this week. A “zine” is a personalized publication filled with passion that when archived, becomes an expressive and powerful...

The 71st Conference on World Affairs (CWA) kicks off today at the University of Colorado Boulder. The week-long conference will last five days and features over 200 events, one of which is a public premiere film screening of “ The Light Shines On ,” a celebration of CU Boulder. Viewers...

Two of the University of Colorado Boulder’s historic university newspapers have been digitized by the Colorado State Library. “El Diario de la Gente” and early issues of “Silver and Gold” are available online from the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC). “We are thrilled to have had the opportunity to collaborate...

After two years, a dedicated group of University Libraries faculty, staff, and students partnered with the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) to digitize approximately 9,000 glacial photos from the Roger G. Barry Archives with help from grant funding. This collection which originally lived at NSIDC is critical to...

CU Boulder’s Program in Jewish Studies and cosponsors will honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, with a free public lecture by visiting scholar David E. Fishman, professor of history at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Fishman’s talk, “The Book Smugglers of the Vilna Ghetto: A Chapter in Spiritual...

Gov.-elect Jared Polis will archive his congressional papers in the CU Boulder Libraries Special Collections, Archives and Preservation department. The donation will make Polis’ archived website and social media available for the public in early 2019. Other congressional papers will be available in 2050, following an embargoed period commonly requested...

The University of Colorado's predominantly white campus was a culture shock for Ashly Villa-Ortega. Now a senior, she began studying at CU in the fall of 2015, mere months after Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president. She wanted to get involved somehow, because his vitriolic rhetoric upset her, and...

Community members are invited to attend a series of events marking and celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of United Mexican American Students at CU Boulder, starting at 4:30 pm, Friday, September 14, in the Center for British and Irish Studies.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the multiple tours of the Archives yesterday, in the Archives Past and Future exhibit, and our Centennial Celebration! We had a packed house at the event that celebrated the past and looked toward the future. How fitting then that our youngest guest was...