The Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) welcomes classes and other groups who would like to learn more about our collections and how to best use them for their research purposes. We provide general orientations or specific instruction sessions to University of New Mexico classes as well as classes and groups from other institutions and the community.
General orientations usually cover:
Sessions are tailored to meet your class/group's needs by covering the above topics plus:
Please contact the CSWR to schedule instruction:
Ann Massmann, (505) 277-8370, massmann@unm.edu
Or fill in the University Libraries instruction request form
at http://elibrary.unm.edu/inst_req.php
(Be sure to select “Center for Southwest Research” on the form.)
Class/group sessions are normally held in one of Zimmerman Library’s classrooms. Sessions can also be held in your UNM classroom or off-site as well. Possible library classrooms include:
The Willard Room: where we can bring examples from our collections and demonstrate the online finding guides and other electronic resources
FORD Room or Basement Electronic Classroom: where students can practice hands-on searching of online resources but where space for exhibiting CSWR collections is unavailable. (For longer classes, above an hour, a combination of the Willard Room and an electronic classroom can be arranged.)
Herzstein Latin American Reading Room: appropriate for very small seminar style classes.