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First Year Students' Guide to UW Libraries

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Welcome to the library guide First Year Student research resources. You will find resources to help you:

Use the side navigation to find information related to your course topics or research assignment topics. If you're not sure where to start, we recommend starting with the "Topic Generation" page.

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Library Search/Retrieval Options

 

UW Libraries QuickSearch: includes the collections of the University Libraries, UW Law Library, and the American Heritage Center.

 


Prospector: a unified catalog of twenty-three academic, public and special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming. UW students, faculty and staff can borrow materials from Prospector.

 

 

yellow arrow on a sky blue boxInterlibrary Loan: UW students, faculty and staff can request books, journal volumes, journal articles and other materials, regardless of whether it is available in the UW Libraries, online or in libraries around the world. A free service!