Harold S. Colton Memorial Library

 

 The Harold S. Colton Memorial Library and the Katharine Bartlett Reading Room began with the donation of Harold S. and Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton's personal library. As the collection grew, the library found a home in the Museum's Research Center Building, built in 1954.

The library's collection has grown to include several hundred periodicals, 50,000 books, over 25,000 separates, several thousand maps, over 300 manuscript holdings, and over 250,000 photographic images.

 The Harold S. Colton Library's collections are strongest in the fields of archaeology, ethnology, and geology, with additional materials on biology, geography, history, art, and museology.

The Harold S. Colton Memorial Library, with its strong retrospective collection, is an indispensable resource for anyone doing research on the Colorado Plateau.

The library has access to the Arizona State Library with its excellent selection of online databases. These resources are freely available to Arizona residents at http://www.lib.az.us/azlibrary/res.aspx.

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