Library News

Colorado State Library Backpack Program

Access and User Services Department 04.22.2019

You can check out Colorado State Park Passes at Auraria Library!

The Colorado State Library Back Pack Program is a partnership between Colorado Department of Education, Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the Colorado State Library. Auraria Library is a member of this program offers two park passes to Colorado’s 41 state parks and adventure backpacks contain binoculars, brochures and educational activities. Auraria students, staff, and faculty can check out these backpacks and park passes for a week. If you want to learn more about the program or check out a backpack, visit the Ask Us…

Auraria Library Digital Collections: 500,000 Pages!

Special and Digital Collections Department 04.17.2019

The Auraria Library Digital Collections has just surpassed 500,000 pages of digitized content, 509,335 to be precise. This is a tremendous milestone for our digital collections and signifies a critical mass of content that is text- and web-searchable, and, most importantly, free and open to all. Our most voluminous collection is our University of Colorado Denver Theses and Dissertations Collection, which contains over 3500 theses, dissertations, and other terminal works. Other collections, such as the Minoru Yasui Collection, Architecture and…

Celebrate Shakespeare's Birthday with the New Oxford Shakespeare Online

Teaching and Learning Department 04.15.2019

Celebrate the Bard’s birthday in April by checking out our New Oxford Shakespeare Online for authoritative texts of his complete works.

This online resource contains three separate divisions: the Modern Critical Edition, with modern spelling and links to background and introductory materials; the Critical Reference Edition, which presents original spelling and links to Quarto and Folio facsimiles, music and staging notes; and the Authorship Companion, for collaboration and attribution scholars.

April is National Poetry Month – Honoring Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado

Researcher Support Services 03.28.2019

Did you know that April is National Poetry Month?  Arguably the most famous Denver poet is Abelardo “Lalo” Delgado (1931 – 2004).  You can find Lalo’s works of poetry at the Auraria Library. He was a major figure in the Chicano movement, both locally and nationally, in the 1960s and 1970s, and is widely regarded as “The Grandfather of Chicano and Chicana Poetry.”  He taught in the Chicano Studies Department at what was then called Metropolitan State College for 17 years, and was Denver’s very first…

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Teaching and Learning Department 03.19.2019

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