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Campus TourRobert Delaney Research Library
The Robert Delaney Southwest Research Library is Fort Lewis College’s special collections reference library. It’s located in the Center of Southwest Studies.
Delaney Library resources support students, faculty and staff research work and Southwest Studies curriculum. It contains materials relating to the American Southwest, primarily the Four Corners Region, and the Native American tribes of the greater Southwest, including northern Mexico.
Visiting scholars and visitors worldwide come to the library for extensive research.
The library is named after Dr. Robert W. Delaney (1918-2000), the founding director of the Center of Southwest Studies (1964-1986).
He joined the Fort Lewis College faculty in 1957 and found the Center of Southwest Studies in 1964. Dr. Delaney became the center’s first director in 1964, and developed many of the early Southwest Studies classes.
Scholars and visitors worldwide do extensive research at the Robert Delaney Southwest Research Library. Students and faculty also use the library as a resource of information on the American Southwest.