Library News
Join Us in Celebrating National Poetry Month
Marketing & Communications
Events in the Library
April 17, 2017 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm | Discovery Wall
Auraria Library is hosting an Auraria Campus Faculty & Student Poetry Reading in honor of National Poetry Month on April 17th at the Auraria Library Discovery Wall from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. Faculty poets scheduled to read include Sommer Browning, Ramon Del Castillo, Brian Dickson, Sandra Doe, Wayne Miller, and Kona Morris. Student poets scheduled to read include Carol…
Digital Collections: Granada Pioneer - Camp Amache's Newspaper
Special Collections and Digital Initiatives
The latest addition to Auraria Library Digital Collections is The Granada Pioneer, the official internee-run newspaper of Camp Amache. Our holdings consist of a straight run from October 1942 until March 1943. The paper itself was printed and distributed in Camp Amache every three days (sometimes more frequently) and had both English and Japanese-language text. The Granada Pioneer was essential in keeping…
Half a Million Pages in Auraria Library Digital Collections!
Special Collections and Digital Initiatives
Well, technically 510,473 pages, but that number doesn't have quite the same ring to it. What constitutes a page? A page is literally a page image in a digitized book or a single photograph. So, we have over half a million of those! Some other boast-worthy stats about our repository:
- 5,694 titles and 7,397 individual items
- 101,779 views in March 2017 (our best single month!)
- 1,420,172 total views over the life of the repository (since April 2014) …
Take Your Research to New Heights with InterLibrary Loan!
Resource Management
Need a book, article, or other items that the Auraria Library or other local libraries don’t have? We can borrow items from across the nation for you. This is a FREE service for Auraria students, staff, & faculty.
To learn more go to: https://library.auraria.edu/services/borrow-from-other-libraries
Digital Collections: First Phase of Minoru Yasui Collection now online!
Special Collections and Digital Initiative
The first phase of what will surely be a years-long effort in digitizing the Minoru Yasui Collection is now in the Auraria Library Digital Collections. The Minoru Yasui Collection represents the physical remnants of the life and work of prominent Denver social justice activist and attorney, Minoru Yasui. Among other achievements, Minoru Yasui was the head of Denver's Commission on Community Relations, which, during the 1970s and 80s was the city's office focusing on repairing the…
