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The University Library @ CSU-Pueblo

Library Underground at the OUC Welcome to the University Library at Colorado State University - Pueblo. This library is for you. We hope you will find both our online and our physical spaces inviting and easy to use.

We work closely with faculty across all the colleges to ensure that the Library's collections support teaching and learning. We also work closely with faculty and students to promote research and learning. We work closely with Information Technology Services to ensure that you have access to the technology you need for research and projects.

Let us know if you have any suggestions or comments. We would love to hear from you! What's on your mind?

Rhonda Gonzales

Dean of Library Services

Vision

The Colorado State University - Pueblo Library is central to the University's mission. It is both a physical and virtual place that provides an enriching and supportive environment where students, faculty, and staff come together to access information and ideas, study, learn, create, collaborate, socialize, and attend cultural events.

Mission

The Colorado State University - Pueblo Library supports the University's mission of fostering academic excellence, student success, and diversity by preparing students to be information literate; by providing access for CSU-Pueblo to quality information resources and academic services that facilitate teaching, learning and research; and by promoting and enabling scholarship through the development of resources that support new paradigms in scholarly communication.

Guiding Principles

The following principles provide the common threads for priority recommendations/activities. The University Library:

  • collaborates with all other university departments and all its users to help further the university's mission.
  • provides a welcoming and supportive academic environment.
  • facilitates access to information.
  • is a teaching institution that fosters information literacy.
  • is a catalyst for creative and intellectual capital of the university.
  • affirms the principles of intellectual freedom embodied in the American Library Association's Bill of Rights.

Profile

  • 188,000+ books
  • 247,000+ government documents
  • 13,000+ CDs, DVDs, and videocassettes
  • Access to over 20,000 print and online journals
  • Access to over 100 online databases
  • University Archives and Special Collections

The library's services include:

  • Print and Online Course Reserves
  • Interlibrary Loan
  • Teaching Research and Information Literacy Skills
  • Research Consultations [using Traditional and Virtual Reference Methods]
  • Multimedia Workstations
  • Printing and Photocopying