Library News

New Library website coming January 2017!

Web Services 11.04.2016

The Web Services Team at Auraria Library has developed a new website to replace the current website at https://library.auraria.edu. We think you'll like the new design and its mobile responsiveness because we know you love being able to access the site from any device with ease! The new Auraria Library website is scheduled to officially launch during the winter break.

Test drive the BETA website now!

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Auraria Library Celebrates with Re-Dedication Ceremony

Auraria Library 11.01.2016

Friday, October 21st was the Re-Dedication Ceremony of Auraria Library. The successful celebration took place as the Library approaches the final home stretch of renovations that expand the various spaces and resources being made available for students, staff and faculty of the Auraria Campus. Attendees were able to view the generous donations and contributions to the renovation of the Library, explore all the new spaces through a self-guided…

New Era for Auraria Library: 10 Highlights

Marketing & Communications 10.27.2016

Check out New Era for Auraria Library: 10 highlights - Library offers more collaborative space, improved technology, new student-friendly amenities by Chris Casey of CU Denver Today.

"As fall semester heads into the homestretch, Auraria Library, heart of the Auraria Campus, pulses with life and learning. Construction is ongoing in a few places, but you can almost hear the 40-year-old building exhale. The six-year renovation project is drawing to a close."

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New in Digital Collections: An Eclectic School Geography

Matthew Mariner 10.17.2016

The latest little oddity to grace Auraria Library Digital Collections is "A School Geography: Embracing a Mathematical, Physical, and Political Description of the Earth." Our own copy is the third book in the "Eclectic Series of Geographies" line and hails from around 1880. Aside from the nifty color maps of continents and …

Renovation Dreams Becoming Realities

Auraria Library 10.15.2016

The mulit-phased renovation of the Auraria Library is transforming the very idea of the term “library”. Renovations are creating a physical and intellectual space specifically designed to support: