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Library
Region 8 Technical Library Services
The mission of the Region 8 Technical Library is to provide technical library services to EPA Region 8 staff, and to make environmental information and resources easily accessible to the public. The library is co-located with the Region 8 Environmental Information Service Center.
Contact Information
We are located at:
The EPA Region 8 Office is located in lower downtown Denver, at the corner of the 16th Street Mall and Wynkoop Street. Once inside the building, the library can be found on the second floor.
We can be contacted at:
Phone: (303) 312-7226
Fax: (303) 312-7061
E-mail: library-reg8@epa.gov
Mailing Address:
US EPA
Region 8
Technical Library
1595 Wynkoop Street, 80C-L
Denver, CO 80202
Hours of Operation
For both EPA staff and the public, the library is open 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Monday through Friday, excluding Federal holidays.
Borrowing Policy and Interlibrary Loans
The library’s materials are available for circulation to EPA Region 8 staff and to libraries that participate with Interlibrary Loans. Reference and certain special collection items do not leave the Regional office.
To locate EPA library and repository materials, you can search the Online Library System (OLS), EPA Libraries’ online catalog. If you have any questions, please call or e-mail the library.
Information For Other Libraries: We share materials with other libraries at no charge via the OCLC Interlibrary Loan system. Our OCLC symbol is EOA and we are members of LVIS (Libraries Very Interested in Sharing). For libraries that do not have OCLC access, please contact the ILL Librarian at 303-312-6743 or e-mail Frederick.Lydia@epa.gov for alternate methods.
EPA Library Services for the Public
As mentioned above, we offer library services to the general public who live in the six-State Region (CO, UT, WY, MT, SD, ND). You can contact our librarians by either telephone or e-mail. Or, visit us in our new “green” building in Downtown Denver.
The EPA National Library Network provides a variety of public services:
- National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS), part of the National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP)
- Online Library System (OLS)
- EPA Library Services and Repositories
About the Collection
The Region 8 collection focuses on environmental issues and conditions unique to the American West, including Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming and the 27 sovereign tribal nations. Special collections include Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Justice, and Western Wetlands. The library maintains paper copies of EPA reports, USGS reports, environmental regulations, and older journals.
History
The Region 8 Library was established in the early 1970’s with a small collection of handbooks, reports, and printed regulations. There have been several moves over the last 35+ years as the Regional office has grown and the library has expanded. Currently the collection includes over 20,000 EPA reports, books, and journals.
