The library collections at the Anderson Academic Commons include scholarly and popular books, rare books and manuscripts, recent periodicals, documentaries and feature films on DVD, and many other resources.

You can access more than 3 million digital publications through the library catalog, from 15th century eBooks to 19th century ephemera to scholarly articles published last week in one of the 90,000 journals available online.

You can easily request a wide range of tangible scholarly journals and monographs from the Hampden Center.

(See how easy it is to request a book from the Hampden Center.)

Highlights of the collection include:

• The Carson-Brierly Dance Library
• The Ira M. and Peryle Hayutin Beck Archives of Rocky Mountain Jewish History
• The Penrose Collection
• Rare Books and Special Collections, including
  • The Davis Moore Collection of books about books
  • The Fine Press and Artists’ Books Collection
  • The Husted Culinary Collection
  • The Skiing Collection
• The University Archives