Since moving to a temporary space in the Driscoll Student Center during the construction of the Academic Commons, Penrose Library has been delivering books and materials from our Hampden Center storage facility seven days a week.

You can still expect books and other materials to be delivered to Penrose@Driscoll within two hours of requesting them online, though our delivery schedule has changed slightly. Beginning July 30, deliveries arrive at Penrose@Driscoll every EVEN HOUR during the following times:

Monday – Thursday 8am-10pm
Friday 8am-6pm
Saturday 12pm-6pm
Sunday 12pm-10pm

Ever wondered how the books and materials get from Hampden to Penrose@Driscoll? Watch our video “Point, Click, Ship: Ordering A Book at DU’s Library” to find out!

Penrose Library is pleased to announce the launch of Digital DU, an updated version of the University of Denver’s digital repository.  A digital repository is the place where we store digital items – images, documents, video, audio and more – that are important to DU and our community, things we want to keep around for generations.  The digital repository contains items from Special Collections, from departments on campus, and items that support student and faculty research.  The repository also includes many documents relating to people, places, and events in the history of Denver, Colorado, and the American West.

Digital DU replaces the previous repository, PEAK Digital, with several exciting new features and collections.

Collections include:

• Art images
• Maps
• Historic and contemporary photographs of Denver and DU
• DU publications
• Oral histories
• Theses, dissertations, and other, student publications
• Faculty publications such as reprints, preprints, and conference presentations

New features include:

• Improved keyword and faceted searching, including full-text searching of documents
• The ability to bring together items on a topic using hyperlinked subject terms
• Better viewing capabilities for all format types, including video, audio, and documents

Digital DU is growing!  Expect to see additions to the digital repository over time as we add more items created by DU faculty and students.

If you are looking to help supplement your research, are looking for specific DU or Denver people, or would like to browse some interesting documents and images, visit Digital DU at https://digitaldu.coalliance.org/.

Need help searching the digital repository or doing other library research?  Contact the Research Center seven days a week for personal assistance!  Call 303-871-2905, email research-help@du.edu, or chat with us online!

Come to Penrose@Driscoll to browse the new “Celebrating Books and More” display for the month of July on Ramadan and Islam. The display features books and DVDs about the month long holiday of Ramadan as well as titles on Islam. Items are on display near the entrance to Penrose@Driscoll and all can be checked out.

For those wishing to dig deeper into the subject, we also have a Book Display Research Guide that lists not only the items currently on display, but relevant ebooks, research guides, and tips for searching our catalog on this subject.