Kraemer Family Library
Collection Development Policy, UCCS Archives
The UCCS Archives includes administrative records and materials that document UCCS groups, activities, development or experiences. In keeping with our mission statement the UCCS University Archives actively collects in the following areas:
- Institutional Records
- Recorded information that pertains to UCCS made or received and issued by offices at UCCS. These can include but are not limited to correspondence, reports, committee minutes, agendas and publications.
- UCCS Theses and Dissertations
- Central Administrative Records
- Recorded information that pertains to UCCS in part or in whole that is issued by central administration. These can include but are not limited to reports and studies.
The UCCS University Archives accepts the following materials:
- Faculty materials
- Correspondence and personal papers
- Lecture notes
- Class outlines
- Student materials
- Official and counterculture student newspapers
- Student government records
- Club materials
- Ephemera, e.g. flyer for pep-rally in gym.
- Visual and Audio Recordings and Photographs
The UCCS University Archives also includes:
- Special collections
- Oral histories
- Gazette Telegraph press clippings (this collection is frozen)
We do not collect the following records:
- Personnel records of faculty, staff and students
- Admissions records
- Payroll records
- Purchasing records
- Accounting records
- Grade books
- Examinations
Faculty writings published commercially are catalogued in the UCCS Library collection and are not considered part of the UCCS University Archives. Donations of posters, artifacts and unpublished manuscripts are evaluated on a case-by-case basis considering their permanent value and space availability. Duplicates and reprints are generally not collected in the UCCS University Archives.
The UCCS University Archives seeks to foster mutually beneficial relationships with the University of Colorado at Boulder University Archives and Auraria campus archive in areas of access, collection development and usage. The UCCS Archives collects UCCS materials exclusively and we make every effort not to duplicate the collecting efforts of others.