Institute for Archival Studies Records

Beginning in 1949 the History Department and the School of Librarianship at the University of Denver were sending their students to the Colorado State Archives for internships. In 1952 the two departments began offering archives administration courses to their graduate students.

In 1962, the official bulletin of the Summer Session listed an Institute of Archival Studies being offered through the History Department. The Institute was a joint program between the History Department and the School of Librarianship, in cooperation with the State of Colorado. The professor was Dolores C. Renze, who was also the Colorado State Archivist. Dolores Renze continued to direct the program until its last year in 1980.

The Institute provided training in managing and processing archives and manuscript collection. Each year students would process collections of the University or the State of Colorado and learn to organize and describe archival material.