Search Special Collections
This page provides users the option to search across the University Libraries’ special collections, digitized, and born-digital content in a single location. The University Libraries uses Blacklight as a common search index for its special collections finding aids and digital repository. We intend to add more digital content and archival content sources as they become available. More information about the services currently indexed through Blacklight may be found below.
A Service Of University of Denver Libraries
Special Collections @ DU, a service of the University of Denver Libraries, collects, preserves, and disseminates digital assets that are of historical or significant value to the University of Denver.
The repository contains a wide variety of materials ranging in subject matter. Some of the materials in the repository were created by DU faculty, staff, and students, while others are digital assets acquired by DU to support the university’s mission of research, teaching, and learning.
University Libraries Finding Aids
Special Collections & Archives houses rare books and manuscript collections, including the University Archives, the Ira M. Beck and Peryle Hayutin Beck Memorial Archives of Rocky Mountain Jewish History, the Carson Brierly Giffin Dance Library, the Husted Cookery Collection, and significant collections of fine press and artists' books, skiing books and ephemera.
The University Archives contains records of the University of Denver (DU) from its founding in 1864 to the present.