Welcome to the Rivendell College Library!  Rivendell has a small library located in the Rivendell House, 985 16^th Street in Boulder.

The mission of the library is to provide information services and resources necessary to help educate, equip, serve and support the students, faculty, administration and staff of Rivendell College.  We have resources available to assist both on campus and distance learning students.  We are here to help you in any way we can.  For assistance, contact our library director, Susan Mann, in person or by e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The following pages contain valuable information on how to use the library, its policies and all of the resources it has available.  Please take some time to familiarize yourself with its content so that you can use these pages to their fullest extent.

For accreditation purposes, all materials used within the library must be counted for circulation statistics.  If you use any materials in the library, please do not reshelve them.  Either bring them to Susan Mann or leave them on a table in the library.

Search the Catalog

To search for materials held by the library, please go to the Rivendell College Library Online Catalog.

You will be able to search the catalog, save searches, compile lists and review charges to your account.  Information on these different features are discussed further on the How do I...? page.

Rivendell College students may obtain checkout privileges at Norlin Library on the campus of the University of Colorado, Boulder.  Please see Susan Mann if you would like to obtain privileges at Norlin.

Rivendell students are also urged to obtain a Boulder Public Library card.  This card will allow you do perform online database searches remotely as well as borrow books from their library and use their interlibrary loan service.   The main branch of Boulder Public Library is located at 11th and Arapahoe.

To buy textbooks for Rivendell classes, please go to the Rivendell College Bookstore.