Auraria Writes Event Honors Campus Faculty and Leadership

Collection Development and Strategies Department

The Auraria Library’s inaugural “Auraria Writes: A Celebration of Faculty Book Authors” event brought together tri-institutional leadership to honor prominent and up-and-coming faculty authors from across the Auraria Campus institutions on April 19, 2023, from 10 – 11:30 a.m. at the Auraria Library. The event highlighted the indispensable partnership between institutional faculty and the Auraria Library, which strives to have a copy of every publication by faculty in the library collection for checkout.

Presentations from Amazing Authors

More than 30 attendees, including the…

Auraria Writes event hosted at the Discovery Wall

Check Out Family Kits to Keep Your Children Entertained While You Study

Student Writer: Inuoluwadunsimi (Simi) Femi-Kayode, CU Denver Sophomore

Meeting deadlines can be tough; taking care of children is also tough. Now imagine trying to do both. I bet many of you can! The Auraria Library is here to help.

Keeping Them Busy

During high school, it was always a struggle baby-sitting my little brother while trying to get assignments done. There was nothing around that could entertain him so I was tasked with doing that or the whole world would crumble down with his epic tantrums.

Luckily, he’s a lot older and wiser (debatable) now so I don’t need to take care of him anymore, but I could only imagine what taking care…

Users looking through the Auraria Library Family Kits

See Demographic and Social Change in U.S. History with this Powerful Database

Collection Development and Strategies Department

Featured Database: Social Explorer Professional

You can use databases to easily find organized collections of articles, journals, news, streaming videos, primary sources, data, and more!

Here’s one of our most favorite databases:

Social Explorer Professional

What’s in it?

This database creates and saves demographic maps and reports down to the U.S. neighborhood and street level using U.S. census data, the American…

A map of the United States with connecting lines between cities

Research a Collection of Leftist Literature and Media with this Tool

Collection Development and Strategies Department

Featured Database: Left Index

You can use databases to easily find organized collections of articles, journals, news, streaming videos, primary sources, data, and more!

Here’s one of our featured databases:

Left Index

What’s in it?

This database provides citations and abstracts, with some full text, to publications from leftist and radical media worldwide since 1982, covering topics such as the labor movement,…

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How to Access Professional Architectural Design Journals for Better Research

Collection Development and Strategies Department

Featured Database: Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

You can use databases to easily find organized collections of articles, journals, news, streaming videos, primary sources, data, and more!

Here’s one of our favorites:

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

What’s in it?

This database indexes top-tier journals supplying articles on professional American and…

Featured Database - Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals