Library News
Wifi Hotspot - Mobile Beacon
Access and User Services Department
Wifi Hotspot - Mobile Beacon device is available in Auraria Library. This hotspot services provides a wireless connection virtually anywhere with 4G LTE speed. You can stay connected up to 12 hours.
The checkout period is two weeks. You can put hold on them to check them out when they are available.
What is in the box?
- Micro USB Cable
- Charger
- Wifi Hotspot
- Instructions Card
Watch Live Stream of Total Solar Eclipse on July 2nd, 2019
Teaching and Learning Department
Join Auraria Library, on July 2 at 2:00 pm Mountain Time (MT) to watch the Total Solar Eclipse Live from NSF’s Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile, via Exploratorium. The total solar eclipse will be visible from a narrow part of the South Pacific Ocean, Chile, and Argentina.
What is Solar Eclipse? What you’ll see is the Moon covers the Sun. The Sun looks completely blackened. You’ll only see the corona of the Sun. This is called totality.
Want to learn more about Solar…
In Honor of D-Day: The 442nd Combat Team
Special and Digital Collections Unit
In honour of D-Day, the day when Allied forces invaded northern France to open a new front against the Third Reich, we want to share an interesting item from our collections. Published in 1979, The Story of the 442nd Combat Team is a booklet covering the history and deployments of the 442nd Infantry Regiment, a US Army unit that was composed almost entirely of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Along with the…
Unearthed: Examples of Gothic Architecture
Special and Digital Collections Unit
We recently stumbled upon and digitized the first volume in a series of plate collections featuring examples of Gothic architecture. This series, entitled Examples of Gothic Architecture: selected from various ancient edifices in England, was collected in 1838 by renowned English architect and historian, August Welby Pugin alongside his father, Auguste Pugin. Among other things, the younger Pugin was famous for…
Unearthed: Summering in Colorado
Special and Digital Collections Unit
We recently stumbled upon and digitized a delightful little tome about traveling our great state called Summering in Colorado. Published in 1878, just two years after Colorado's entry into the Union, this book is a travelogue about various regions in and around Colorado. Summering in Colorado is indicative of books of this ilk that were very popular in the mid to late 19th century. The writer of this…
