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Digital Colorado > CVL Collections

CVL Collections

Are you looking for a way to share digital collections like yearbooks, photos, and oral history recordings online?  The CVL Collections program can help you create and maintain a content management system (CMS) to store digital versions of the items in your collections and make them easy to find online. Additionally, CVL Collections facilitates participation in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) via the Plains to Peaks Collective (PPC), which helps libraries, archives, and museums share unique digital collections with a wider audience.

This page features news about the CVL Collections program and participants. To learn more about CVL Collections, and how your institution can participate, visit cvlcollections.org, or contact Amy Hitchner at hitchner_a@cde.state.co.us.

CVL Collections: 2024 Year in Review

The CVL Collections program began in 2016 to help organizations in Colorado and Wyoming share their unique historic collections online …

CVL Collections

Amy Hitchner

January 2, 2025

CVL Collections: 2023 in Review

Since 2016, the CVL Collections program has been helping organizations in Colorado (and now Wyoming!) share their unique historic collections …

CVL Collections

Amy Hitchner

January 4, 2024

Touring Colorado’s Collections: Arvada Historical Society

Arvada Begins The town of Arvada began as many Colorado towns did, in response to the gold rush of the …

CSL News, CVL Collections

Amy Hitchner

July 6, 2023

Touring Colorado’s Collections: Alamosa Public Library Digital Archive

In 1847, the first group of Mormon pioneers, led by Brigham Young, settled in Salt Lake City after departing from …

CSL News, CVL Collections

Amy Hitchner

March 27, 2023

Touring Colorado’s Collections: Pines & Plains Libraries Digital Collection

Elbert County, named for Governor of the Territory of Colorado Samuel Hitt Elbert, was created in February of 1874 from …

CSL News, CVL Collections

Marisa Wood

August 4, 2021

Touring Colorado’s Collections: City of Thornton Archive Digital Collection

“Situated at the foot of the rockies, Thornton will rise majestically on the heights overlooking Denver” proclaims the marketing materials …

CVL Collections

Marisa Wood

May 18, 2021

Touring Colorado’s Collections: Park County Local History Digital Archive

The Park County Local History Archive (PCLHA) represents one of the most valuable rural community archives in Colorado. It is …

CSL News, CVL Collections

Marisa Wood

February 23, 2021

Touring Colorado’s Collections: Front Range Community College Digital Archive

Originally the North Campus of the Denver Community College system, which was created in 1967 by an act of the …

CVL Collections, Plains to Peaks Collective

Marisa Wood

May 12, 2020

Touring Colorado’s Collections: Clear Creek County Digital Collection

For a lot of Coloradans, Clear Creek County is a place that you spend a lot of time while you …

CVL Collections, Plains to Peaks Collective

Marisa Wood

October 28, 2019

Touring Colorado’s Collections: Voices of Ignacio Digital Collection

If you haven’t spent time exploring the southwestern part of our state, you may not be familiar with Ignacio Colorado. …

CVL Collections, Plains to Peaks Collective

Marisa Wood

July 24, 2019

Share Your Community’s Story Online with CVL Collections

The Colorado State Library is pleased to announce the launch of the CVL Collections program. This program was created to …

CSL News, CVL Collections

Marisa Wood

July 22, 2019

Touring Colorado’s Collections: Pine River Library and the Stories of Bayfield, CO

A small town with a long history is a community with stories to tell; stories of hard times and harsh …

CVL Collections, Plains to Peaks Collective

Amy Hitchner

May 30, 2018

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