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Searching all* of the web pages of the Center of Southwest Studies:
Do a keyword search of all of
the Center's tens of thousands of web pages in five easy steps:
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* Note: due to the limitations of Google searching, it is possible that the search will only pull from the first 100 or so characters of any web page. This is not a comprehensive search.
Thirteen of the following special collections inventories are now encoded in EAD and are searchable in the Rocky Mountain Online Archives, representing selected collection holdings of 20 archival repositories in Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming, accessible at http://rmoa.unm.edu
Guides
to the special collections at the Fort Lewis College Center of Southwest Studies,
Delaney Library:
Listed in alphabetical order by collection title. W
below to listen to selected sound recordings in MP3 file format.
Following are links to inventories
of archivally processed collections. The archival staff is adding to these guides regularly as we
increase availability to the various collections. Meanwhile, most of the
Center's 500+ collections are described at
a basic level in the
online catalog (which also is searchable on the Web;
click here for instructions). These
inventories serve as an effective means of access to the
voluminous holdings of the Center. They are the most comprehensive description
of each collection, and are the source of information for the collection-level
descriptions for the public access computer catalogs
searchable in this community, throughout Colorado, and nationwide. Familiarity
with these inventories will enable distant researchers to decide whether the
collections warrant a trip to Durango, and will enable visiting researchers to
maximize the use of their limited time here at the Delaney Library in the Center
of Southwest Studies.
Search tip:
You can search for a keyword in this file using the Edit-> Find in
Page (Ctrl+F) feature on your Web browser.
Pathfinder #8:
Archaeological work in the Four
Corners region of the Southwest:
M 027, Series 1.1: Durango (Colo.) City Council records, 1991-1999
M 027, Series 6.6: Durango (Colo.) City police arrest records, 1881-1885 ~ 1929-1939 ~ 1940-1949
Pathfinder #6: Environmental
collections at
the Center of Southwest Studies
Pathfinder #8:
Four Corners archaeological work:
M 060:
Four Corners
Environmental Research Institute (FOCERI) records
M 230: Four Corners Free Methodist Church records
Pathfinder #6: Four Corners region environmental collections at the Center of Southwest Studies
P 058:
Gayle Maloy slides (
M 028, Series 3.2: La Plata County (Colo.) marriages records, 1876-1959 (6,298 records)
I 005: Mexican Archives of New Mexico on microfilm
Pathfinder #13: Movies of the Durango area: a descriptive list of feature films that were filmed in Southwestern Colorado
Pathfinder #11: Native American Studies primary source materials at the Center of Southwest Studies
Pathfinders: a summary list of topical guides to primary source materials at the Delaney Southwest Research Library at the Center of Southwest Studies
Photographs cataloged at the item level at the Center of Southwest Studies (this is a 684-page list in PDF file format, of more than 15 thousand photographs, sorted by title)
Pathfinder #12: Politics and government of southwestern Colorado: special collections at the Center of Southwest Studies
M 049: Robert Sullenberger
papers
P 017-09:
Robert York southwestern slides
I 036:
Society of American Indians papers on microfilm
Pathfinder #8: Southwest archaeological work: a partial guide to special collections holdings at the Center of Southwest Studies
M 007:
Uranium mining collection
(see also
collections M 103 and I 052:
Pine River Irrigation District (La Plata
County, Colo.) records and collection D
003, above) M 053-069: Vietnam
correspondence of Mark W. Howe:
Pháo Binh – A Marine artillery officer’s letters from Vietnam, 1966-67
About the inventories:
Usually, our
inventories describe collections that have been left largely in the
arrangement they had when in daily use as active files. Inventories do not
describe the arrangement or content of individual items; they are not
catalogs or indexes (though they include an index to the container list). Even
the most detailed guide will necessitate research to locate specific documents. This is an aid to research, not a substitute for it.
These guides reflect the dynamic nature of the Center's processed manuscript and archival holdings. Individually and collectively, the inventories show the degree of arrangement and description of the Center's holdings. The Center's archival staff updates these inventories when resources enable us to describe collections at a level of greater detail. Also, we expect to produce additional inventories as we arrange and describe more of our collections.
Long-distance reference communications:
These collections are located at the Center of Southwest Studies building
at the north end of the Fort Lewis College campus in Durango.
Interested researchers should phone the archivist at 970/247-7126 or
send
electronic mail to the archivist at
archives@fortlewis.edu
Click here to use our E-mail Reference Request Form.
The Center does not have a budget for outgoing long-distance phone calls
to answer reference requests, so please provide an email address if you wish
to receive a response.
Doing your own research:
This
descriptive material for collections at the Fort Lewis College Center of
Southwest Studies is provided to inform interested parties about the nature and
depth of the repository's collections. It cannot serve as a substitute for a
visit to the repository for those with substantial research interests in the
collections. Please note that the Center does not conduct genealogical
research.
Research requests: You may pay us to do the research (staff time permitting). The rate is $25 per hour, billed in 15-minute increments (you decide how much time you would like us to spend on the research) and is prepaid by credit card using the Center's credit card intake form.
Requesting
copies for research use:
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs
the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material.
Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are
authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these
specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used
for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a
user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for
purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright
infringement.
Info on requesting photocopies: Photocopying requests must specify the collection name, box, and folder from which material should be copied. Reference staff will begin copying documents in the first folder requested and stop when 50 copies have been completed. Reference staff will not assess the relevance of the contents of a folder to the requestor's research interests. In fulfilling researchers' photoduplication copy requests, the Archivist reserves the right to give the researcher the “original” photocopies from the folder (so long as they have no original markings or annotations on them) and place the newer photocopies into the collection folder so the papers will last longer, to serve future generations as well as the present. The price for this service is $.25 per page (single-side copies) for photocopies ($1.00 per page for printouts from the Center's microfilm plus a $3.00 set-up fee for any printout from microfilm) plus at least the minimum charge of $5.00 for shipping and handling. Copies may be sent via fax, by request and only when the Center's archival staff considers facsimile an acceptable mode of transmission; that charge is $3.00 for the first page and $1.00 for each additional page (includes handling).
To request photocopies, please print out the Photoduplication Request Form (which includes that agreement) and mail it with your payment to the following address (faxed signatures are not acceptable): Nik Kendziorski, Assistant College Archivist, Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301-3999.
Or, to request photographic and/or digital copies of images (as opposed to photocopies), use the Center's Image Duplication Request Form.
All reproduction orders must be prepaid (by check or money order made payable to Fort Lewis College) and must be accompanied by a signed copy of the form (including the requestor's assent to the standard copyright agreement). To request expedited service (i.e., we will do our best to send you the copies on the same day we received payment; this does not apply to reproductions that we must contract out, such as for copies of oversize items and for traditional photographic hard copies), double the amount you pay for the reproduction fee.
Limits to photocopy requests: The Center's goal is to provide the optimum service that can be offered to our user audience, and to provide the same level of service to each person who asks. Thus, the reference staff is limited to making up to 50 (fifty) photocopies per research request per month for researchers whose sole access to the Center of Southwest Studies is via the World Wide Web.
If you need a copy of more than fifty pages, we may assist you in that extended work by giving you the name of a student worker who you could hire to make those copies at the Delaney Library. You would be paying that person their rate (probably $7.05 per hour, billed in quarter-hour increments, which would include their time in counting the number of copies, removing metal fasteners, making the copies, organizing the copies into folders so you will know which folder each is a copy of, and computing the charges you owe) and you would be paying the Center of Southwest Studies a separate check for the photocopies at the prices noted in the previous paragraph. Your payment to the student for their hourly pay for their work for you would be something you negotiate with that individual.
If a collection or a group of materials within a collection is receiving heavy and/or voluminous photocopy requests, the Center may, at its discretion and subject to copyright restrictions, offer to produce a microfilm set of the collection or series that is the subject of those requests, and the researcher making the request will be responsible to pay for the costs of producing a microfilm master (to be retained by the Center) as well as for paying for the researcher to obtain a use copy of that microfilm.
Just a reminder: the Center must receive advance payment and the completed agreement form for each order and each reference request. Both are due before the Center can provide the service. To expedite service, you may want to use the Center's credit card intake form.
Information for doing research at the Center
of Southwest Studies
Digital images from
the collections at the Center of Southwest Studies
