New Bike Racks Are Here

Marketing & Communications

Please keep telling us your feedback – we’re listening!

Recent Tell Us feedback submissions from students and faculty shared a common theme - a desire for more bike racks right outside the Library. CU Denver Anthropology professor Marty Otañez wrote: “The bike racks are often full when I visit the Library.” In response to your feedback submissions, we added two new additional bike racks in the northeast corner of the Lawrence Street side of the Library. There are now…

Finals Stretch

Marketing & Communications

Extended Hours

Auraria Library’s extended study hours are back!

When: December 4 – December 15

Sunday 7:30am – 8:00pm
Monday – Thursday 7:30am - Midnight
Friday 9:00am – 8:00pm
Saturday 9:00am – 8:00pm

Extra Seating

Discover additional mobile seating with a place to stow your books beneath and an attached work surface to get your studying done! Mobile seating can be found throughout the Library.…

Try CultureGrams!

Researcher Support Services

Use CultureGrams Database to learn societal and cultural details of hundreds of nations through fact-filled reports!

With maps, data, photos and videos local experts document details of each country's customs, traditions, religion, and daily life including such aspects as typical greetings, marriage customs, foods eaten, music and holidays celebrated. Less detailed reports are supplied for the U.S. States and Canadian…

New Digital Collection: Diario de la Gente

Special and Digital Collections Unit

Special Collections and Digital Initiatives is pleased to announce a new collection of digitized student newspapers! Diario de la Gente (Journal of the People) was an activist student newspaper produced in Boulder, Colorado in the 1970s and early 1980s. Tackling issues like the United Farm Workers "Salad Bowl Strike," police practices in the local Chicano and Latino communities, and the availability of higher education opportunities for persons of color, Diario de…

2018 Almanac of Higher Education is available

Researcher Support Services

Each year the Chronicle of Higher Education (available to all Auraria students, faculty and staff using this link) produces data on the state of higher education and publishes it in the Almanac of Higher Education. 

In this years edition the numbers tell the story of the current state…