An early photo of Scholes Hall from the Facility Planning collection, University Archives.

New Digitized Collections

University Archives Adds Digital Collections

Depicted here on this chapbook cover are "The Goat, the Tailor, and His Three Children."

José Guadalupe Posada Collection of Mexican Popular Prints

The online collection includes lithographs, etchings, and engravings by Posada from three different collections in the Center for Southwest Research. Subjects range from humorous to didactic, romantic to religious and political. Posada's signature calaveras are represented, as are sensational crime stories, supernatural subjects and popular songs. This project was made possible with funding from the Center for Regional Studies.

Jimmy Santiago Baca   This lecture is free and open to all.

Summer Sunset Lecture:

Jimmy Santiago Baca

The Power of Poetry in My Life

Saturday, July 12, 7:00 p.m.

UNM Student Union Ballroom A

"A long time ago, back in early `72, when I went to prison, I was lucky enough to be put in the basement of a maximum security prison for disciplinary reasons. I did not get along with the prison administration, nor with the prisoner culture of violence. There was another answer to shape my life, to make sense of my past, to give me hope that I would not end up in this dreary forsaken hell as a repeat convict. One day when one of the guys on death row sent me a book and I opened it up and started reading, I found the voice that would lift me to the highest and give me the strength to fight for the life I wanted-- that voice belonged to Pablo Neruda. And then came other voices; Lorca, Jimenez, Hernandez, Vallejos, Cardenal, and so forth. I read voraciously, with an appetite that could never be satisfied. My soul was renewed, my mind ablaze, my heart passionately committed to poetry after reading these great voices.

Today, I continue to be influenced by Latin American poetry, fiction and painting-- so much so that I find myself running around Latin America interviewing poets from every country and their works continue to lift me, inspire me, and hold me steady in the storms that assail our dangerous reality today." -Jimmy Santiago Baca

New Electronic Collections 

Dance in Video

This exciting collection captures dance performances from the stage and brings them directly to your computer screen through online streaming video.  250 dance productions and commentary by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century comprise this resource.

Sabin Americana: 1500-1926

This collection of important and hard-to-find primary sources spanning more than 400 years opens a window onto the society, politics, culture, religious beliefs, and contemporary opinions. Original accounts of exploration, pioneering, settlement, Western movement, military actions, Native Americans, slavery, and abolition enrich this resource of more than 29,000 full-text works.

Coming Soon to a Library Near You

Release Date:  UNM Fall Semester

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Answering 26,349 reference questions
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