Black Women Writers

Collection Development and Strategies Department

Featured Database: Black Women Writers

You can use databases to easily find organized collections of articles, journals, news, streaming videos, primary sources, data, and more!  

  • This month, we highlight one of our specialized full-text databases: Black Women Writers.

What’s in it? 

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BBC Shakespeare Plays

Collection Development and Strategies Department

Featured Database: BBC Shakespeare Plays

You can use databases to easily find organized collections of articles, journals, news, streaming videos, primary sources, data, and more!  

  • This month, we highlight one of our favorite video streaming databases: BBC Shakespeare Plays.

What’s in it? 

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Old books, a quill, and an ink stand on wooden table, overlaid with text "BBC Shakespeare Plays" and "Featured Database" on a textured orange band.

Denver Business Journal (DBJ)

Collection Development and Strategies Department

Featured Database: Denver Business Journal (DBJ)

You can use databases to easily find organized collections of articles, journals, news, streaming videos, primary sources, data, and more!  

  • This month, we highlight one of our new business resources, the Denver Business Journal. The University of Colorado Denver's Business School provides funding to…

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Spotted in Special Collections: A Poem About A Cannibal

Special and Digital Collections Unit

Do you know the story of the “Colorado Cannibal”?

Alferd Packer was a post-Civil War miner and prospector who, lured to Western Colorado by news of a gold strike, headed in February 1874 into the mountains near Breckenridge with five other men. Only one man came out alive.

Two months later, Packer resurfaced with a suspicious amount of cash, some weapons that weren’t his, and a shifty story. He first…

Book cover with an abstract, orange and black line drawing of a face beside the title text: "PACKER, THE CANNIBAL and other Story Poems.

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980

Collection Development and Strategies Department

Featured Database: Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980

You can use databases to easily find organized collections of articles, journals, news, streaming videos, primary sources, data, and more!  

What’s in it? …

A coffee cup and glasses rest on a wooden table beside a newspaper headline "Últimas noticias." Text above reads "Hispanic American Newspapers."