Welcome to the Digital Library/Archive at UW
The Digital Library/Archive at the University of Wyoming is a permanent, web-based digital repository that collects and preserves collections that represent the scholarly and creative output of the faculty, staff, and students of the University of Wyoming.
This site is a preservation site. For public access please see the Wyoming Scholars Repository (WySR) at http://repository.uwyo.edu/.
What's New?
Materials you will find among the digitized collections include historic maps, photographs, printed ephemera, sound and video files, and more.
Western Trails
Western Trails explored the adaptability/adoptability of the Colorado Digitization Project model for collaboration among cultural heritage institutions, focusing digitization efforts on a statewide basis. The State Libraries of Wyoming, Nebraska, and Kansas led these explorations.
Annals of Wyoming
Search & Review Annals of Wyoming.
Annals of Wyoming is the official publication of the Wyoming State Historical Society. Initially founded as the Quarterly Bulletin in 1923, the name was changed to Annals of Wyoming two years later in 1925. The journal has been the official publication of the Wyoming State Historical Society since 1953.
Historical Maps
Search & view the Historic Map Collection.
The Hebard Historic Map Collection includes over 5,000 maps many of which have been digitized and are available in the UW Catalog and are available for viewing on the Digital Repository at the University of Wyoming.
UW Law Library
Search the Law Library Collection.
Search the private collections from the UW Law Library.
Old Believer Collection
Russian Old Believer Collection.
This exhibit features a history of the schism that shook the Russian Orthodox Church in 1666–1667. This schism began as the result of a series of church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon. Old Believers continue liturgical practices which the Russian Orthodox Church maintained before the implementation of these reforms. Russian-speakers refer to the schism itself as raskol (раскол - etymologically indicating a "cleaving-apart"). This exhibit focuses on the Old Believers and their music.
Western Research Institute (WRI)
Search Western Research Institute Collections.
About WRI
Western Research Institute (WRI), located in Laramie, Wyoming, is a multi-million dollar, not-for-profit, research organization renowned for work in advanced energy systems, environmental technologies and highway materials research. Our corporate headquarters are on the University of Wyoming campus and our 22-acre Advanced Technology Center (ATC) north of town provides additional laboratories, plus pilot facilities and room for new development.
We are a research institute with broad perspectives and know-how in science, technology and real-world, on-the-ground conditions. Our highly experienced team of men and women offer expertise from fields such as chemical, petroleum and environmental engineering, organic, physical, analytical and inorganic chemistry, geology, soil science, business administration and economics.
Through our Cooperative Research Program with the Department of Energy WRI originates technologies that attract industrial partners from corporations, industry associations, government entities, and other research organizations. We advance client technologies from concept to bench scale through pilot testing and commercialization. With the Federal Highway Administration, WRI conducts concentrated research that supports breakthroughs in materials knowledge, leading to safer, longer-lasting roads―experience we’re able to bring to bear to meet our clients’ needs.