Collections News

CU’s American Music Research Center and University Libraries’ Rare and Distinctive Collections recently acquired materials from Otis Taylor, an internationally renowned and Boulder-based blues banjo player.

Library preservationists and fire remediators are working to return collections to service after an early morning fire in Norlin Library.

The fifth installment of the Embodied Judaism exhibit series, "Know Your Nosh: Food, Jewishness & Identity" explores the significance of food and agriculture for Jewish religious, cultural, national and political identities.

In the latest edition of this series, the University Libraries conserve and research the recent donation of two World War II escape and evasion maps.

A first edition of a rare, pedagogical music book by Giovanni Battista Martini was identified by music professor Robert Shay and now resides in Rare and Distinctive Collections.

A student worker restored historic ice flow charts in the University Libraries' collection, saving irreplaceable data that is part of the climate record while making progress toward her own goal of a career in art conservation and restoration.

Join our Preservation and Collections Care team on a series of hands-on adventures as they restore unique and historic items from our collections.

Undergraduate students from the department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts have curated film and video from the Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections for screening on April 19 and 26.

Most materials will move to the Libraries offsite storage, PASCAL. Other items will be available electronically.

The University Libraries has created a guide to Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept 15 to Oct 15.