Colorado State Library Backpack Program

Access and User Services Department

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…

Auraria Library Digital Collections: 500,000 Pages!

Special and Digital Collections Unit

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…

Celebrate Shakespeare's Birthday with the New Oxford Shakespeare Online

Teaching and Learning Department

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,…

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

Researcher Support Services

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…

Value Line Pro

Teaching and Learning Department

Are you interested in stocks or securities?  Value Line Pro provides professional research and recommendations on well over 1000 stocks, as well as weekly updates on financial markets, recommended portfolios, securities developments, and special topical reports.  Value Line’s independent professional staff of over 70 researchers, securities analysts, economists, and statisticians deliver timely, unbiased information in a professional format…