Libraries News for the Division of Natural Sciences - Fall 2025
Gemmill Library’s renovation is nearing completion. We have experienced construction delays and our current timeline for reopening is November 2025. Gemmill’s course reserves, periodicals and popular science reading are housed in the Earth Sciences & Map Library, located in the Benson Earth Sciences building. To access Gemmill’s collections, campus affiliates can place holds on items in the collection and have them delivered to any of our open library locations and faculty can request it be delivered to their mailboxes.
News
The history of CU Boulder’s red sunflower was nearly discarded. Now it's a successful Libraries program
One Seed has distributed over 7,200 red sunflower seed packets to the community and the history of how the flower was cultivated—and saved—is as serendipitous as its rediscovery in the archives.
Resources & services
Faculty: Here is your University Libraries start-of-semester checklist
It's time to submit your Course Reserves list, schedule a Library Research Seminar and more for the fall semester.
What can Taylor Swift tell us about authors' rights?
In this edition of “Unlocking Scholarly Publishing", we dive into pop star Taylor Swift’s journey into becoming a champion for authors' rights.
200 libraries, campus pickup–Prospector is back
The University Libraries have rejoined Prospector, a service providing access to more than 30 million books, journals, DVDs, CDs, videos and other materials held in member libraries.
Stay informed: Access top local and national news organizations via the Libraries
Get direct site access to The Atlantic, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Daily Camera, The Denver Post and several other news organizations through the University Libraries subscriptions.
Libraries programs
Enhance your fall classes with inspiring new Buffs One Read title
The book, "Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work," was selected as the ideal book for this year’s Buffs One Read theme: Finding Your Path.
Culture Crawl announces largest line-up yet—Join 20 events Oct. 8
Back for its 5th year and bigger than ever, Culture Crawl will have a limited edition t-shirt giveaway, food-tastings, music, exhibitions, performances, art-making and more.