Jointly housed between the University of Colorado’s College of Music & the University Libraries, the AMRC is home to a rare music repository that documents the history of American music and the people who have made it.
A collaboration between the Libraries and Research Computing, offering a full range of data services for both university and community members.
Our collections, the largest in the Rocky Mountain region, include over 11 million volumes. Six library locations on campus provide a variety of spaces and services to support learning and research.
The Art & Architecture Collection covers all aspects of the visual arts, as well as environmental design and other interdisciplinary areas. Located in Norlin Library, it contains approximately 100,000 volumes of reference works, monographs and exhibition catalogues, and 200 journals and magazines.
The Asian Studies Collection, located primarily in Norlin Library, holds more than 400,000 volumes of scholarly material in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, English, Arabic, Hindi and Urdu.. With an interdisciplinary emphasis on the humanities and social sciences, it focuses on disciplines such as literature, language, history and religious studies.
The University of Colorado Digital Library provides centralized access to 150,000+ digitized and digital collections for teaching, learning and research. Collections include images, audio and video files. Many of these resources are available to the general public.
The CU GeoLibrary is an ever-evolving digital collection of Colorado Geographic Information System (GIS) data, available for anyone to use for research and mapping projects.
CU Scholar is a collaborative service of the University Libraries that provides free and worldwide access to research and scholarship created by the University of Colorado Boulder community.
The Children's and Young Adult Collection, located in Norlin Library, is a teaching and browsing collection supporting students in the School of Education as well as children and young adults in the CU and wider Boulder communities. Focuses of the collection include major award-winning titles and purchase additional fiction and non-fiction materials to support the teaching and research priorities of the School of Education, including books with racial and ethnic diversity, diverse gender and sexuality, disabilities or exceptionalities, and science and math books.
Through our Multimedia Equipment Lending Library (MELL), CU Boulder students, staff and faculty may borrow a variety of multimedia equipment, including cameras, tripods, smartphone accessories.
Our popular reading collection includes a variety of genres, such as biographies, Young Adult (YA), comics, fantasy, horror/thriller, popular fiction, and a variety of popular non-fiction titles covering all topical areas. Browse titles at the Business Library, Gemmill Library and Norlin Library.
The Preservation and Collection Care Section supports the Libraries by providing preservation and conservation services for all University Libraries' physical collections.
Rare and Distinctive Collections (RaD) encompasses special collections in the archives, government information, the map collection and rare books and manuscripts, in addition to its close affiliation with the American Music Research Center (AMRC) and the CU Boulder Program in Jewish Studies. RaD also offers a full suite of services, including our in-person reading room, a robust instruction program and specialized research assistance.
