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)
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Half a Million Pages in Auraria Library Digital Collections

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

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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…

Left: Black and white portrait photo of Minoru Yasui. Right: Black and white photo of Yasui and his family in front of their Denver home.

New Digital Collection: Histoire de France: The History of France in Comic Form

Special Collections and Digital Initiatives

The latest oddity to be added to the Auraria Library Digitial Collections is Histoire de France: par l'Image et l'Observation directe, a comic-form history of France published in 1923. This beautiful example of early comic art for educational purposes was illustrated by Ferdinand Raffin (1870-1948), a French artist who worked primarily in children's literature and magazines like Le chat noir …

Hand drawn sketch of iconic French characters on the cover of - Histoire de France: par l'Image et l'Observation directe

Special Collections Resources Tapped for Auraria History Project

Special Collections and Digital Initiatives

The CU Denver 4244/5244 - History Museums, Exhibits, and Education class recently took on the task of digitally telling the history of Auraria. Students from Dr. Rebecca A. Hunt’s class explored resources in Auraria Library’s Special Collections for historical information and images to complete three projects.

Students redesigned an exhibit in St. Catejan’s Church, recorded podcasts for historical Auraria campus walks…

Sketch drawing of early Auraria, camp site for Native Americans.