Colorado Heights University

Library Staff Wired & Technology Enabled
Library staff members are shown above using various technology tools to multitask. Most of our Library staff is not only multilingual, but also skilled in the use of many technologies. Ask them for help on your next visit to the library! [Note: Just click the photo to enlarge]

Library Learning Commons Underway
The library recently reorganized the main level with the help of many staff members to generate the beginnings of a completely new floor plan that will accommodate the new learning commons and learning center approach. Changes are still ongoing and now there is an area for students, and instructors to bring their laptops and books and gather with study groups to work on school projects, do research, catch up on the latest news, or find new reading materials.

Updated Library Reference Materials Now Available
The library recently received a donated set of the 2008 World Book Encyclopedia! This will be on the reference shelves near the latest Oxford English Dictionary (OED) set and the recently donated 2005 New Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Current Library Spotlight Items
The USGS Ice Corp Lab in Lakewood, Colorado and Extreme Ice Survey expedition recently donated a new pictorial book. Come check it out or watch the full documentary online at:

New Books
The library has received a donated copy of James Hansen's Storms of My Grandchildren from the publisher Bloomsbury Press. Check the CHU Library Online Catalog for availability.

CHU Library Needs Your Donations
The library is accepting technology, books, and media materials appropriate for the campus library community as well as any other in-kind and/or cash donations. The library is also greatly in need of newer "Ready Reference" materials such as dictionaries and encyclopedias. The library also needs technology donations and DVD formatted educational and entertainment media. Contact the Librarian at if you have something to give during this season of giving, and be sure to write it off on your taxes!

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Reader's Advisory
These are recommended reads provided by Faculty, Staff, and The Librarian

Contact the Librarian at if you have recommendations!

Other Inspring Library News & Stories From Around the Globe....

I. The Inspiring Tale of "Biblioburro" Colombia's Unique Mobile Library
The Biblioburro is a traveling library that distributes books to patrons from the backs of two donkeys, Alfa and Beto. The program was created in La Gloria, Colombia by Luis Soriano.

Soriano became fascinated with reading as a child and obtained a college degree in Spanish literature after studying with a professor who would visit his village twice each month. By profession a primary school teacher, Soriano developed the idea after seeing the power of reading books to transform his students who had lived through a conflict even more intense than what he himself had experienced as a child. Starting in the late 1990s, Soriano would travel to communities in Colombia's Caribbean Sea hinterlands with a portable library that started with 70 books.

II. Largest Book in the World Goes on Show for the First Time!
It takes six people to lift it and has been recorded as the largest book in the world, yet the splendid Klencke Atlas, presented to Charles II on his restoration and now 350 years old, has never been publicly displayed with its pages open. That glaring omission is to be rectified, it was announced by the British Library today, when it will be displayed as one of the stars of its big summer exhibition about maps.