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On the Line: Living the U.S.-Mexico Border
Herzstein Latin American Reading Room Gallery
January 20th - February 27th, 2012
This exhibit encourages a closer examination of the United States-Mexico Border giving particular attention to the individuals and communities that exist along the horizontal boundary. Very often, discussions of the Border focus on the international political relationship between Washington and Mexico City on a vertical axis, as opposed to the daily interactions that occur at the territorial divide. These images demonstrate the lived experiences of some of those communities and lives on the line.
The images included in this exhibit are representations of the impact various national policies and international exchanges had, and continue to have, on the communities along the U.S-Mexico Border. Candid photography highlights the lived experiences of individuals dealing with the constant threat of violence coupled with instances of peacefulness and friendliness, while artistic expressions offer visual representations of national and international critique.
Curator's Bio: Kristen Valencia is a PhD Student in American Studies at UNM and a Fellow with the Center for Regional Studies with the University Libraries. She was born and raised in Nogales, Arizona-Sonora, where she witnessed the local community building and positive interaction between two very different countries, often in the face of potential violence. As a result of her lived experience, Kristen has chosen to focus on the history of Ambos Nogales (both Nogales) in her dissertation in order to confront generalizations about border communities and contribute to knowledge of the third largest crossing community at the U.S.-Mexico border.
For more information contact call 277-0818 or email pheffern@unm.edu.
Research Presentations Herzstein Latin American Reading Room- 2pm
February 1
Joseph Garcia, "Draft Dodging and Bootlegging on the Rio Grande Frontera (Laredo, Texas 1910-30)"
Chris Galanis, Border Photographer
February 8
Sarah Upton, "Revisiting Borderlands/La Frontera: Towards a Communication Theory of Hybrid Border Identity"
Molly Nelson, "A Postcolonial Analysis of the Virgen de Guadalupe in the art of Yolanda López"
February 15
Regina Hamdy, "An Analysis of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity by Tomás R. Jiménez"
Kristen Valencia, "Conceptualizations of Bicultural Identity and Binational Celebrations in Ambos Nogales"
February 22
Christian Waguespack, "Pedro Meyer's Borderlands: Photographic Representation of Transnational Relations between the U.S. and Mexico"
Film Screenings in the Herzstein Latin American Reading Room at 2pm
February 2
Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos
February 9
Pancho Villa's Columbus Raid
The Border Crossed Us
February 16
Border Visions
February 23
La Caminata
New World Border
On March 24, 2011, University Libraries Associate Dean Mike Kelly found himself holding an Oscar while sitting in the living room of Michael Blake's Tucson desert ranch, Wolf House. The Oscar belonged to former UNM student Michael Blake for his screenplay Dances with Wolves. Kelly's visit to Wolfe House was to pick up Blake's archives of screen plays, manuscripts, photographs, correspondence and books.
Michael Blake, was born in North Carolina but spent much of his early life in New Mexico, first stationed at Walker Air Force Base and later as a journalism student at UNM. Although he never received a degree from UNM, he has maintained a close association with New Mexico.
In 1986, encouraged by his friend Kevin Costner, Blake turned a script idea into a novel called Dances with Wolves. Costner purchased the film rights for the novel. In 1989, Blake wrote the screenplay for a film to be directed and starred in by Kevin Costner. In 1990 Dances with Wolves won every major film award including seven Academy Awards.
Blake's impressive collection documents his creative work including ten published novels, over 30 screen plays, poetry, newspaper stories and essays. The collection includes records of Blake's humanitarian endeavors documenting his passion for wild horses and the gray wolf. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the American Library Association's Library Hero Award.
The Blake Collection will be an important resource for students of film history, film and media production and screen writing. The Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections hopes to have the collection processed and available for researchers and students in 2013.
A cooperative team of University Libraries and Information Technology employees recently launched a major upgrade to the UNM website search functionality. Powered by the Google Search Appliance (its really a yellow box sitting in IT) the greatly improved functionality is a result of programming the search tool to understand the content on the UNM website. University Libraries employees contributed their expert knowledge on categorizing data (years of creating cataloging records paid off here) and IT employees contributed their expertise on hardware and systems. Plans are already in process to add even more functionality during the next year. UNM departments can help in this process by understanding how to set up their own site for optimal searchability. The project team has created a website with information on improving findabilty on websites and have posted some brief video training on search engine optimization. Visit: http://search.unm.edu/seo/index.html.
The Queens of the Deck, by Jennifer Ober
A new student art show, Never-Ending Patterns, opens in the Fine Arts and Design Library on November 18th. The show, juried by Dr. Jonathan Wolfe, features the work of UNM students Ren Adams, Jason Coffey, Samuel Flores, Ryan Henel, Joshua Hensley, Sergio Jimenez, Lowry Nakamura, Jennifer Ober and Jory Vander Galien.
The Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections has completed processing some fascinating items and collections documenting music traditions in the New Mexico and the Southwest and they are now available for scholars and researchers. For more complete information on these and other collections visit rmoa.unm.edu and search by the collection name.
The Charlemaud Curtis Collection of Southwestern Music, Interviews and Programs contains a wide variety of recorded music, programs and interviews. They include Navajo and Mescalero Apache songs and dances, Keresan children's songs and games, Spanish alabados, Christmas plays, Holy Week processions, wedding dances and popular music as well as Anglo American fiddle and cowboy tunes, African American folk and gospel music, and songs from the Cheyenne, the Tarahumara of Chihuahua, and the Indians of Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia. There are also interviews with old timers from Albuquerque, Santa Rosa, Clovis, Melrose, La Joya and Lordsburg. Included are the evolution of classical music culture in Albuquerque and at UNM, the history of Santa Rosa and pioneer ranching life in Clovis and Quay County, discussions of the San Jose Los Pastores Christmas play, a short history of La Joya and views of a Mexican American migrant farmer and railroader from Lordsburg.
Thomas J. Steele Alabado Collection contains research notes, photocopies of alabados (religious ballads) and other liturgical and cultural literature collected by Father Thomas Steele. Most of the material in this collection was used as a basis for his book The Alabados of New Mexico.
Francisco Gonzales Collection of Native American music of New Mexico contains songs and dialogue from mostly Hispano Comanche, but also some Cree and Blood Indian musicians and dancers recorded from the 1950s through the 1990s. Additionally, there are Hispanic folk songs, Mariachi songs, and Gonzales family recordings. Most recordings were taken by Francisco 'El Comanche' Gonzales, Nelson Gonzales, or Enrique Lamadrid.
Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie Collection of Northern New Mexico Hispanic music primarily contains recordings of traditional Hispanic folk music performed by musicians in Santa Fe, Chama, Tierra Amarilla, and Bernal, New Mexico. Included are a few rag time, country, Mexican tunes, and other favorites.
If you are interested in learning more about these or other collections in the CSWR visit online at elibrary.unm.edu/cswr.
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Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fifth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they've learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
"Open Access" to information - the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need - has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.
Open Access (OA) has the potential to maximize research investments, increase the exposure and use of published research, facilitate the ability to conduct research across available literature, and enhance the overall advancement of scholarship. Research funding agencies, academic institutions, researchers and scientists, teachers, students, and members of the general public are supporting a move towards Open Access in increasing numbers every year. Open Access Week is a key opportunity for all members of the community to take action to keep this momentum moving forward.
Get involved. Participating in Open Access Week can be as simple or involved as you like. It can also be a chance to let your imagination have full rein and come up with something more ambitious, wacky, fun.
OA Week is an invaluable chance to connect the global momentum toward open sharing with the advancement of policy changes on the local level. Universities, colleges, research institutes, funding agencies, libraries, and think tanks have used Open Access Week as a platform to host faculty votes on campus open-access policies, to issue reports on the societal and economic benefits of Open Access, to commit new funds in support of open-access publication, and more.
Find out more at openaccessweek.org and also at Open Access at University Libraries
University Libraries subscribes to Films on Demand, a digital collection of film and video on a wide range of subjects.
Among the many collections included are Nightline, Frontline, Ken Burns documentaries, Wide Angle, Royal Opera House, BBC, and Bill Moyers. The range of videos is amazing from interviews with Carl Sandburg to "Mendel and the Gene Splicers." Films on Demand covers subjects from Anthropology to World Languages. Visit Films on Demand and learn something new. You can find this great resource in the Databases A to Z list in case you forget!
Inter American Studies in the University Libraries invites current UNM students to submit research presentation proposals for a colloquium that will coincide with an exhibit entitled On the Line: Living the U.S.-Mexico Border in the Zimmerman Library?s Herzstein Latin American Reading Room Gallery between December 12, 2011 and February 24, 2012. This exhibit will focus on the horizontal lives along the U.S.-Mexico Borderline. Quite often, discussions of the territorial boundary are relegated to political relations on a vertical axis, between Mexico City and Washington. This exhibit is intended to reflect the horizontal experiences of those
who negotiate and interact with the border ? the lives on the line. Research and presentations related to this discussion are especially welcome. Student artwork and photography will be considered, as well. Listed below are additional topics and themes to be considered:
- Transnational and Transborder studies
- Biculturalism
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Youth and social movements
- Border identity
- U.S.-Mexico Borderlands and the Southwest
- Border diet and food practices
- Media representation of the Border
- Poetry, music, and dance of the Borderlands
- Conceptualizations of Aztlán and the erasure of the border
- Curanderismo and/or folk healing
- Literature
The exhibition is scheduled for December 12, 2011 through February 24, 2012 and will feature U.S.-Mexico Border related collections currently housed in the Center for Southwest Research and the University Libraries circulating collections, with student presentations throughout the month of February.
Proposal submission deadline: November 15, 2011
Please email a 250-word abstract for individual presentations for a 500-word abstract for panel presentations to UNM Libraries Center for Regional Studies Fellow, Kristen Valencia at ksv@unm.edu.
October 25th
11:00 am
Willard Reading Room, Zimmerman Library
The University Libraries and the Theatre and Dance department are pleased to sponsor a visit by Elizabeth Aldrich, Curator of Dance at the Library of Congress. Ms. Aldrich will present Re examining the Record: Do We Really 'Know' Martha Graham? October 25, 2011 at 11 a.m. in the Willard Reading Room, Zimmerman Library. A noted dance historian, Ms. Aldrich served as the executive director of the Dance Heritage Coalition for six years prior to her appointment at the Library of Congress. She is the author of several books. As an expert on Renaissance dance, she has choreographed work in several Merchant-Ivory films and in one film by Martin Scorsese.
The Latin American and Iberian Institute and the Inter-American Studies Program at the University Libraries are pleased to welcome Visiting Scholar Andrew Offenburger, doctoral student in the Department of History at Yale University. Andrew was awarded the Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar travel grant for October 3-29, 2011. This grant is made possible by a generous gift to the LAII from Dr. Richard E. Greenleaf, and is intended to provide scholars who specialize in Latin America the opportunity to work with one of the largest and most complete library collections on Latin America in the United States.
Andrew's research project and the title of his presentation to the UNM community is "When the American West Turned South: Development and Dispossession in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1853-1929." His research follows the historical trajectory of capitalist development in the U.S. West from southern Colorado to northern Mexico, and by doing so his work explores the many variations of dispossession. Through this research, Andrew aims to engage studies of the U.S. West with those of Latin America and other colonial historiographies more broadly. While at UNM, Andrew will examine visual and textual evidence related to development in northern Mexico and destabilization with the early Mexican Revolution.
Zotero Workshop
When: Tuesday Oct. 11, 4:00-5:00
Where: Zimmerman Library, Rm 254
Zotero is a research tool that stores citation information for your reference sources to your personal account. The Zotero plug-in for MS Word then allows you to instantly add in-text citations to your papers and create bibliographies formatted in the style of your choice.
To Change the World: My years in Cuba
A Reading by Margaret Randall
Wednesday, September 28
The Willard Room
Zimmerman Library
6:00-8:00 PM
The revolution in Cuba was one of the most important and controversial social experiments in the second half of the 20th century. Margaret Randall reads from her 2009, part memoir, part political analysis of her experience in Cuba from1969-1980.
Brought to you by University Libraries Inter-American Studies Program, Latin American and Iberian Institute, Queer Straight Alliance, Women's Resource Center, and Center for Peace Studies. For more information call 277-0818 or email pheffern@unm.edu.
In her exhibit Acequia: Culture of Water between Irrigation and Community, professional anthropologist and photographer, Donatella Davanzo, shares her anthropological and photographic analysis of how the acequias in the greater Rio Grande region express the relationship between territory and community throughout New Mexico and Northern Mexico. Please join us in the Herzstein Latin American Reading Room on the second floor of Zimmerman Library on Friday, September 23, 2011 6:00 PM as Donatella Davanzo opens this exhibit with a presentation of her work. Light refreshments will be provided. For additional information, please contact Suzanne M. Schadl, schadl@unm.edu
The UNM Office of eScholarship presents the 2011 Symposium on Scholarly Communication on Oct. 17, from 1-3:30 p.m. in the SUB, Lobo A & B. James Duderstadt, PhD, President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Technology at the University of Michigan will be the keynote speaker. Dr. Duderstadt will discuss reinventing the research university to serve a changing world. A panel discussion on the shifting roles for libraries, research, promotion and tenure, and the university press will follow. This event, hosted by University Libraries, the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center, and the Law Library, is the 6th such symposium to raise awareness at UNM about scholarly communications issues. For more information and to register for this free event, please visit the Office of eScholarship website.
Indigenous Nations Library Program Native Pathways Lecture Series Presents
Harlan McKosato
Native America Calling: A View from the Inside
September 21, 2011
Brown Bag Discussion from Noon-1:00 pm
Zimmerman Library 2ndFloor
Rm. 226-INLP, The Gathering Place
Lecture from 3:00 pm-5:00 pm
Student Union Building (SUB)
Mirage Thunderbird Room (2nd floor)
Harlan McKosato is Host and Producer of Native America Calling (NAC), the National Electronic Talking Circle. He is a member of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma and grew up on the Iowa Reservation in north central Oklahoma. He began as an Associate Producer for NAC in June 1995, and was promoted to Producer/Director in August 1996. He took over as Host in September 1997.
For more information: 277-7433 | mtsosie@unm.edu
Starting Fall Semester 2011 Zimmerman Library will be open at 7 am and close at 2 am Sunday through Thursday during the semester. In the week leading up to finals week Zimmerman Library will be open 24 hours. UNM IDs will be required to enter or stay in the library between 10pm and 2am. Holiday and Break hours will vary. Be sure to download the FALL HOURS PDF or check the Hours Page for all hours details including hours for the Fine Arts and Design Library, Centennial Science and Engineering Library, Parish Memorial Library for Business and Economics and other services.
Did you know New Mexico has a state Spanish song? In 1971 the New Mexico State Legislature formally adopted "Así es Nuevo Méjico" as our state Spanish song. The song is fairly well known in the state, but less is known about the composer Amadeo Lucero.
The Center for Southwest Research, at the University of New Mexico Library, Albuquerque, has a rare recording of Lucero himself singing "Así es Nuevo Méjico," the New Mexico state Spanish song. Fortunately, in 1978, Charlemaud Curtis, who was then the Associate Director of the John Donald Robb Archive of Southwestern Music, taped Lucero during a live performance at KNME. This is the only known recording of him singing his composition.
The Lucero recording is part of the Charlemaud Curtis Collection of Southwestern Music, Interviews and Programs, 1972-1987, Mss 847 BC. The Curtis Collection is one of over thirty collections within the CSWR Robb Archive dealing with Native American, Hispanic, Mexican, African American and Anglo American music of New Mexico and the Southwest.
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Go Mobile
The library catalog, LIBROS, now has a mobile site for people on the move. Check out mlib.unm.edu. Some mobile devices will automatically redirect to the mobile site from libros.unm.edu - others not so much. In addition to searching the catalog you can view your library account information, renew books and more.
The library catalog, library hours and other UNM information such as campus maps and shuttle schedules can also be found on Lobo Mobile. Find out more about Lobo Mobile here.
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Information Management for Professionals INFO 320 (3 credits, online course)
Fall 2011
Instructor: Kathleen Keating (kkeating@unm.edu)
Students will create a database of the major information resources within a specific discipline. They will also learn research strategies, and economic and ethical issues surrounding information policy.
Crimes of Conscience: Testimonies from the Sanctuary Movement in New Mexico during the 1980s
Friday July 15, 2011
Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Zimmerman Library
Frank Waters Room 105
Free and open to the public
As a moral critique of Reagan-era foreign policy in Latin America and as a progressive counterpoint to the conservative Evangelical New Right, progressive churches, people of faith, peace activists, and artists created a network of sanctuary workers who provided safe harbor, transportation, and financial assistance to undocumented refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala. In 1986 Governor Toney Anaya declared the state of New Mexico a "sanctuary" for Central American refugees as a symbolic gesture of solidarity with the local and national Sanctuary Movements. In 1987 when former Lutheran minister Glen Thamert and journalist Demetria Martinez were indicted on charges of violating federal immigration law by transporting two undocumented Salvadorian women to Albuquerque, Governor Anaya's sanctuary declaration became the cornerstone of a successful legal defense.
Based on archival documents and oral history interviews, this lecture recovers the untold history of the Sanctuary Movement in New Mexico through the testimonies of sanctuary workers and highlights the dramatic criminal trial that defined the movement. Previous studies of the Sanctuary Movement during the 1980s have largely ignored New Mexico's important role in this faith-based movement that was focused on providing assistance to refugees fleeing the civil wars in Central America.
A Santa Fe native and graduate of New Mexico State University, Aimee Villarreal Garza is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her dissertation focuses on the resurgence of Mexican migration to northern New Mexico and the settlement of immigrant communities in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. She examines overlapping dimensions of secular and religious concepts and practices of sanctuary place-making by comparing public efforts to protect and integrate new immigrants by means of local and state level immigration policy making with the varieties of sanctuary spaces that Mexicanos have created for themselves through charismatic prayer group networks at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. Her project traces the history and contemporary politics of the 'sanctuary city' concept to the Sanctuary Movement(s) of 1980s and sheds light on the way in which secular and religious spaces, ideas, and value orientations overlap and collide with competing moral and legal dimensions immigration politics in New Mexico.
Water Rights and Wrongs in the Middle Rio Grande
June 29, 2011
4:00 pm
Waters Room, Zimmerman Library Room 105
In this talk, University of New Mexico graduate student Sam Markwell will explore the political, economic, and cultural conditions in which the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD) was established with a particular focus on how it has affected Pueblo and acequia communities and their claims to water rights within the larger context of change shaping the twentieth century. The lecture will explore how the "Conservancy Project" became and remained the MGSD through long and ongoing processes of negotiation, contestation, and incorporation among rural and urban communities, financial institutions, municipalities, and state and federal government agencies.
Sam Markwell, a graduate of the University of New Mexico's School of Anthropology, is expanding upon work he discovered during his time as an undergraduate. Currently, his studies focus on the cultural politics of water in the South Valley area of Albuquerque with a special interest in environmental justice. Mr. Markwell has a keen awareness of governmental involvement in our society and how it evolves through time and place. His lecture promises to be enlightening, particularly since it focuses on our State's ongoing water issues and the struggles of the pueblo and acequia communities to keep their water rights into the 21st century. Mr. Markwell's lecture is co-sponsored by the University of New Mexico Libraries' Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections.
Zimmerman Library has 6 Kindles and 3 iPads for check out to UNM students, faculty and staff. They can be checked out for 24 hours with no renewal from the reserve desk in Zimmerman. Kindles and iPads cannot be put on hold or reserved ahead of time.
The UL is interested in exploring ways to add user requested content. We hope if you borrow one you will complete the brief questionnaire when you return the device or you can email srharris@unm.edu with your questions and suggestions.
You can also use our request form to ask us to purchase eBooks or other content to be used on one of our Kindles or iPads. Find out more about using iPads and Kindles in the library here.
Prickly Pears, Serapes, Pueblos, and Tortillas: Women in the New Mexico Territory, 1846-1866
Katherine Massoth, University of Iowa
June 17th, Noon
Waters Room
Zimmerman Library Room 105
In this lecture, 2011 History Scholar Katherine Massoth focuses on how white Americans reacted to the environment, clothing, and foodstuffs of New Mexican people between 1846 and 1866. Through their commentary on the physical environment and outward appearances of Spanish-Mexicans and American Indians, American men and women served as purveyors of American tastes and standards, but women also complicated U.S. colonization as they adapted Spanish-Mexican fashion and food into their daily lives. Cuisine and couture became areas where daily practices were absorbed and traded between the colonizers and the colonized instead being merely examples of outright cultural and political conquest.
Ms. Massoth's research suggests that the story of U.S. annexation of New Mexico is also the story of a cultural middle ground that American, Spanish-Mexican, and American Indian women negotiated on a daily basis. Control was not always in the hands of the Americans but instead in the hands of the native New Mexicans who knew the land, its food ways, and the appropriate clothing to wear. Women played a significant role in initiating genial, welcoming, and necessary relationships through recipe swaps and dress pattern sharing. While they used the language of manifest destiny and racial superiority in their discussions of nonwhites, some white women's daily actions spoke otherwise.
Katherine Massoth is a Presidential Fellow and a Ph.D. Candidate at University of Iowa, where she also received her M.A. in United States History in 2008. Massoth specializes in the history of gender and race in the American West and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and women's labor history. At Iowa, she teaches a course on the role of gender in shaping the history of the borderlands and the American West. Her dissertation analyzes the impact of U.S. annexation of Arizona, California, and New Mexico on women's daily lives from 1846 to 1912. She analyzes women's labor, material and food culture, and ethnic identity to understand how women attempted to protect and propagate their cultural practices.
A selection of books from the Juvenile Literature Collection is now on display in the Zimmerman Library lobby.
A new area in Zimmerman Library's basement level is exclusively dedicated to juvenile literature. A wide variety of subject areas and literary traditions are represented. Included in this collection of over 7,000 titles are several hundred books for children in Spanish. Many of the books are translated into Spanish or are bilingual editions; others are original to Spanish-speaking countries. Many of the books in the collection were acquired when the College of Education shifted the majority of the Tireman Library collection to Zimmerman Library in 2010.
We hope that teachers, future teachers, and children of all ages will take full advantage of this new and rich resource in the UNM University Libraries.
Monday, May 23 -- Friday, June 10, 2011
This course is for MS students and professionals with a BS in biology, geology, ecology, or other environmental sciences, environmental engineering, geography or science librarianship
Scientists, engineers, and data librarians are working in an increasingly data-intensive research environment. The Environmental Information Management (EIM) Institute provides MS and PhD students and professionals with the conceptual and practical hands-on training that allows them to effectively design, manage, analyze, visualize, and preserve data and information. Participants completing the three-week Institute will be at a significant competitive advantage as they pursue further academic and professional efforts. They will gain invaluable experience with all aspects of the data life cycle: from managing data files and creating databases and web portals, through state-of-the-art analysis and visualization techniques, as well as managing, analyzing, and visualizing geospatial data.
The 2011 EIM Institute is made possible by generous funding from Walter E. Dean. Dr. Dean, a UNM alumnus, has worked for the U.S. Geological Survey since 1975 on a variety of projects and is currently a research geologist in the Geology and Environmental Change Science Center in Colorado. Dean is a prolific researcher and author who has won numerous awards.
Week 1
INFO 530 - Environmental Information Management
A practical course on environmental information management and the data life cycle for the environmental sciences. Lectures and exercises focus on data and metadata acquisition and management, quality assurance/quality control, data preservation, database creation and management, and web portal development.
Week 2
INFO 532 - Environmental Data Analysis and Visualization
Lectures and exercises cover techniques for data exploration, data analysis and scientific workflows, and creation of effective visual representations of analytical results.
Week 3
INFO 533 - Spatial Data Management in Environmental Science
This hands-on course focuses on how geospatial data are effectively managed, analyzed, visualized and preserved in Geographic Information Systems.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
Space is limited. The Institute is comprised of three one-week courses for two credits each. Students must register for and attend all three courses. Graduate tuition rates apply.
Open to non-UNM students. Non UNM students must apply for non-degree status through UNM Admissions ($10 fee) prior to registering for the Institute. Apply on-line at http://www.unm.edu/admissions/guidelines/nondegree.html. Graduate resident tuition rates apply to this course.
For more information visit elibrary.unm.edu/courses or email Kathleen Keating (kkeating@unm.edu).
Four Fellowships are being offered. The application deadline is May 31st, 2011.
The Anderson Fellow assists in promoting the CSWR's instruction program and other public services in collaboration with the CSWR's Head of Public Services.
The Juan and Virginia Chacon fellow will process the papers of renowned New Mexico photographer and author, Nancy Wood. Her work chronicles the daily life of the people of Taos Pueblo, Ute Mountain and Southern Ute communities, Colorado ranches and small towns, and Pie Town, NM in the 1970s and 1980s.
The main focus of the The Beatrice Chauvenet 2011-2012 fellow will be to develop digital resources from the collections of the Center for Southwest Research. Specifically, the focus will be to create Meta data catalog records for the J.B. Jackson Collection of digitized images, related to U.S. cultural geography.
The University Libraries (UL) offers a Digital Initiatives Library fellowship to work on a project that will:
1) Research UNM scholars and their scholarly output
2) Research copyright information for individual scholarly articles
3) Upload scholarly articles to the institutional repository (LoboVault)
4) Provide cataloging and discovery information for selected articles
5) Work with the University Archives in uploading born digital content
6) Assist the University Archivist is preparing collections for uploading into Lobo Vault
You can find more information on all four fellowships and the application form on the CSWR Fellowships page.
Charles Lange received his PhD in Anthropology from UNM in 1951. After a long and distinguished teaching career, Lange returned to New Mexico where he taught part-time at UNM. The collection includes letters, reports, and many photographs. Pictured: 1948 photograph taken by Charles Lange of Juanita Arquero replastering her house at Cochiti Pueblo. From the Charles H. Lange Papers, MSS 873, Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University Libraries. See the full collection inventory.
Office of the State Historian and the Center for Southwest Research Present
Fashioning Advocacy: LaDonna Harris and the Codification of Values in the Case of Taos Blue Lake
Thursday May 12, 2011
Noon - 1 pm
Waters Room
Zimmerman Library
Blue Lake, a sacred shrine for Taos Pueblo Indians, is located high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico. In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt's executive order made Blue Lake and the surrounding territory a part of the Carson National Forest under the control of the Forest Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Blue Lake Area, including many significant ceremonial sites, became the focus of a sixty-four-year struggle by Taos Pueblo to regain its land. Finally, in 1970 Taos Pueblo was granted full legal title to the Blue Lake Area. The return of the land to the Pueblo on the basis of sustained religious use marked the first time that land, rather than some form of alternative compensation, had been returned to a tribe in the United States. During Taos Pueblo's struggle against the U.S. legal system, tribal members, politicians, religious organizations, lawyers, White House staff, indigenous activists, and interested parties worked with and against Taos Pueblo. It was not the efforts of one individual, but the collective force of advocates from across the country that yielded the return of Taos Blue Lake. Ms. Sherry will focus on the efforts and experience of LaDonna Harris, a member of the Comanche nation, in this historic event. Drawing on archival materials, interviews, and ethnographic observations Ms. Sherry explores the discourse and model of Indigenous advocacy put forth by Harris as it pertains to Taos Blue Lake. Ultimately, Sherry illustrates that Harris's value-based model of advocacy is not only codified in narrative but also employed as a training model for future Indigenous leaders. Harris's involvement in the return of Taos Blue Lake is an example of her ability to maintain a wide-ranging and interrelated network of relationships cultivated through her model of advocacy.
Ashley Sherry is an M.A. student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and a fellow at the Center for Southwest Research. Her research interests include Indigeneity, the politics of heritage, social movements and activism. Ms. Sherry's lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for Southwest Research
University Libraries' Center for Regional Studies and Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections are hosting the 2011 Center for Regional Studies Colloquium in the Waters Room, Zimmerman Library Room 105 on April 25 and 26. Each graduate student fellow working for the CSWR will briefly present on the work they have been doing. All are welcome to attend. For more information call 277-6451.
Schedule of presentations:
Monday, April 25
Noon 2:30 p.m.
Waters Room, Zimmerman Library 105
Clare Daniel
Geology and Landscape Photography: The Dual Value of Wayne Lambert's Work
Clare Daniel, Pictorial Collections Fellow beginning in January of 2010, is a PhD candidate in American Studies. Her research interests include race theory, social welfare policy, and citizenship. She is currently in the process of proposing a dissertation project focused on the biopolitics of teenage pregnancy in the contemporary U.S.
Aurore Diehl
Carousel of Color: Comparing Set Designs of Two Productions of Liliom by UNM's Department of Drama
Aurore Diehl, Thomas L. Popejoy Fellow, is a first year student in the American Studies MA program. She has also been accepted into the transcripted certificate program in Women's Studies. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality in popular music. After earning her MA, Aurore plans to either pursue her doctorate in order to become a professor or apply to work for the federal government in National Archives.
Jessica Gardener
J.B. Jackson: Father of Cultural Landscape Studies
Jessica Gardener, the Beatrice Chauvenet Fellow, is a student in the School of Architecture and Planning. Jessica will be graduating in Spring of 2011 with a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture. She completed her undergraduate work at the University of New Mexico in Environmental, Design and Planning, graduating magna cum laude in 2009. Having worked for several environmental restoration firms, Jessica's specialty is in upland dryland restoration and water in the urban environment.
Matt Harris
The New Mexico Composers Archive
Matthew Harris, Fine Arts Fellow, is currently obtaining a Master of Music Performance degree at the University of New Mexico. He previously attended Central Michigan University (2010, Summa Cum Laude) where he received his Bachelor of Music Education. His primary teachers have been John Nichol, Eric Lau, and Rob Smith. In addition to this CRS fellowship, Matt also holds the Wind Symphony Band Scholarship at UNM. Matt has performed with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and twice at the International Detroit Jazz Festival. He has also played with such artists as Bobby Shew, Jeff Coffin, and John Fedchock.
Ashley Sherry and Max Fitzpatrick
Dropping Knowledge, Not Bombs: Inter-Hemispheric Resource Center's Focus on Foreign Policy
Max Fitzpatrick is the Juan and Virginia Chacón fellow. He is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology. His academic focus is on social movements and political regimes in Latin America.
Ashley Sherry, the Juan and Virginia Chacón Fellow, is an MA student in the Anthropology Department at UNM. Her research interests include Indigeneity, the politics of heritage, and citizenship. She is currently working on research with support from the New Mexico Office of the State Historian on the role of Comanche national and social activist LaDonna Harris in the return of Taos Blue Lake.
Tuesday, April 26
10:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m.
Waters Room, Zimmerman Library 105
Jordan Biro
Wide-Open Town: Myron Brinig and the Artists' Colony of Taos, New Mexico
Jordan Biro, the George I. Sanchez Fellow, is a second year doctoral student in the History Department at UNM. She completed her Master's in Public History at California State University, Sacramento in 2009. Her research interests include nineteenth and twentieth US with a thematic concentration in gender and sexuality. She is currently working on research for her dissertation on the history of sexual migrations made by gay men and lesbians to the West in the 1940s - 1970s, a topic she conceptualized during her fellowship. As part of her fellowship at CSWR, she analyzed the personal papers of one such migrant, the Navajo artist, R.C. Gorman. Jordan will be presenting her research on a panel entitled: "Negotiation of Identities in Alternative Communities: Hippies, Queers, and Lesbians in the U.S. West, 1950s - 1970s" at the Western History Association Conference in October 2011.
Brian Luna Lucero
Joint Arizona-New Mexico Statehood: Success Within a Failed Movement
Brian Luna Lucero, the Sophie D. Aberle Fellow, is a Ph.D. candidate in history. His dissertation "Invention and Contention: Memory, Place, and Identity in the American Southwest, 1848-1940" focuses on the memory and commemoration of the Spanish colonial past in three Spanish towns that grew into prominent American cities: Tucson, Arizona, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and San Antonio, Texas. The dissertation argues that the way people remembered the colonial era and the stories they told about it reveal their visions for the future while also determining their ethnic and social identities in their present.
Char Peery
The Celebrating New Mexico Statehood Website: New Tools for Interactive Instruction
Char Peery, the Anderson Fellow, is a Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology Department. As the Anderson Fellow, she is on the CSWR reference and instruction teams. Her area of study is linguistic anthropology with an emphasis on indigenous languages. She is currently writing her dissertation which addresses some of the challenges of language documentation programs by exploring the Navajo language documentation project started in the 1930s by Robert W. Young and William Morgan.
Brianne Stein
The Basque Independent Movement and 21st Century Revolutions
Brianne Stein, the Digitization Fellow, is currently in the Historic Preservation and Regionalism Graduate Certificate Program. This fall she will enter the PhD program in History where she will focus on the built environment and material culture in the early 20th century U.S.
Sue Taylor
The Lorenzanas: Settling California with Orphans
Sue Taylor, the Fray Angelico Chavez Fellow, is a PhD candidate in the History Department. She defended her dissertation, "Negotiating Honor: Women and Slavery in Caracas, 1750-1854" in March and will graduate in May. Her dissertation examines how slave women, free African and mixed race women, and female slave owners defined honor for themselves in the hierarchical society of colonial and early republican Caracas and the ways these women sought to defend their reputations through the courts. After graduation Sue hopes to find either a teaching position or a position working with Latin American special collections at a university.
Friday April 22, 2011 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
UNM Zimmerman Library, Waters Room 105
Co-sponsored by the Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
This event is free and open to the public.
Mexican Revolutionary General Francisco "Pancho" Villa's raid on Columbus in the early morning hours of March 9, 1916, put the small New Mexican village on the national (and international) map. Although from our present-day perspective Columbus (when it is mentioned at all) is remembered as the site of the only organized Mexican revolutionary attack on U.S. soil, by 1916 boosters had been at work for over a decade to bring the border village to national notoriety. Agents of the Columbus & Western New Mexico Townsite Company published pamphlets and flyers to promote the up-and-coming town. In the weekly Columbus News and its successor, the Columbus Courier, references were routinely made to the projected growth of the town. At times editor P. G. Mosely even argued that Columbus would exceed El Paso, Texas, in size and notoriety within only a few short years. Such activities were concentrated efforts to create what geographers have termed a place myth. Place myths were aimed at overcoming negative stereotypes about a given town or region in order to recreate it as a place attractive for settlement and development. In his lecture, Mr. Morgan will argue that between 1888 and 1916 boosters, settlers, and capitalists attempted to create a place myth in and around Columbus that would redraw it as the pinnacle of American development and modernization along the international border between New Mexico and Chihuahua. The construction of this place myth illustrates the ways in which elite actors attempted to recreate the Columbus area as a space firmly controlled by white Americans. Their efforts, however, were ultimately defied by Mexican revolutionary actions beyond their control.
Brandon Morgan is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at the University of New Mexico and Adjunct Instructor of History at Central New Mexico Community College. His scholarly focus is the U.S.-Mexico borderlands around the time of the Mexican Revolution. This talk is part of his dissertation project, "Columbus, New Mexico, and Palomas, Chihuahua: The Rural Borderlands, 1888-1962."
Looking for that elusive tax form? Find useful links on the Tax Form & Tax Help Research Guide. Many standard paper forms can also be picked up at Parish Library.
The UNM University Libraries will host "State of the Organic Union: The Present and Future for Small Farms," a lecture by Monte "Farmer Monte" Skarsgard, on Thursday, April 21st, at 1:00 p.m. in Zimmerman Library's Willard Reading Room.
Farmer Monte is the founder and CFO of Los Poblanos Organics, a local Community Supported Agriculture. An Albuquerque native, Farmer Monte broke ground on 2 acres in the North Valley in 2003, and served 42 members that year. Today, Los Poblanos Organics farms 40 acres in 4 locations throughout New Mexico and delivers organic produce to 2,000 families. Farmer Monte will give a lecture and presentation for the students of UNM. A reception will follow. For more information contact silvialu@unm.edu.
The next Native Pathways Lecture hosted by University Libraries' Indigenous Nations Library Program is Navajo Traditional Ceremonial Structure: Treatment and Healing presented by Avery Denny from Diné College on April 12. A brown bag will be held from12:00-1:30 in The Gathering Place, room 226 in Zimmerman Library. The lecture will be from 3:00-5:30 pm in the Student Union Building Acoma Rooms A&B.
Avery Denny, a highly respected Medicine Man, has been a Diné College instructor for 24 years teaching Navajo culture, holistic healing, oral history, herbology, Navajo philosophy, and Diné educational philosophy. From 2010-2011 he also worked with the Diné Policy Institute. For more information contact Mary Alice Tsosie at 277-8922 or mtsosie@unm.edu.
Image: Painting by Amber Harper-Slabosezewicz
A new exhibition of student artwork opens in the Fine Arts and Design Library on March 7th. Artwork by UNM students, Jessie Raney, Brent Jeffrey Thomas, Frol Boundin, Amber Harper-Slaboszewicz and Norma Ortega was chosen for the show by juror Scott Anderson. Anderson is a faculty member in Art and Art History.
The opening reception is scheduled for April 1st at 4:00 and will also feature short artist talks starting at 4:30 pm.
"On the Spectrum: Color conceived," is an exhibition featuring the work of five New Mexico based artists who employ strategies that maximize color's formal potential. Restraint, isolation, harmonizing, and even the mere suggestion of color's presence are methods used by these artists to highlight color's formal, conceptual, and expressive potency.
Artists, Frol Boundin and Brent Thomas, while having the most "open palettes" in the exhibition, keep chaos at bay by focusing on analogous and complimentary color relationships. In the case of Thomas, this visual harmony is compatible with implied spiritual narratives and the historic character of the paintings. This same smoothness of color acts as an element of tension in the work of Boundin, who's overlapping cogs, gears, and beams might be more appropriately rendered in a less peaceful manner. Boundin's dichotomy suggests nostalgia for the kind of mechanical aesthetic, which is archaic and quaint in the Internet Age.
Jessie Raney's photographs of bound and wrapped dolls are sparse with color. The grounds are dark and the forms are illuminated dramatically by a single light source. What color there is describing the dolls themselves is muted and neutralized, but intense hues appear as accented needlework at the images' margins. Color here, though subtle, is very powerful. The tiny stitches bring up notions of cuts, wounds, and the means to heal them.
Amber Harper-Slaboszewicz injects color into her landscape paintings through unusual lighting situations. The light sources are intense and colors they create are unearthly. One can't help but feel the presence of apparitions, apocalyptic detonations, or alien spacecraft when looking at Harper-Slabosezewicz's forests and gardens.
Norma Ortega's work is minimal and essentially devoid of any color outside the gray-scale and local properties of the materials. Despite this, "reading" the subject matter in the work conjures images of intense hues. For example, in "Endless Knot," a subtle gradient is superimposed over a grid-based pattern - referencing digital pixels or perhaps its analog, the RGB speckled, visual snow of a tube television screen.
The lesson taught by these artists is that color has more visual and conceptual power when it is contextualized. These artists foreground the part color plays in their work by limiting its variety, couching it in "non-color," targeting its use, and challenging the viewer to imagine its presence.
Scott Anderson is an artist living and working in Albuquerque New Mexico where he is Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of New Mexico. Anderson has exhibited his work extensively internationally and nationally at a variety of art institutions and galleries. Anderson's own studio practice focuses on the development of a painterly language informed by the construction of myth, utopias, and aftermath survival strategies.
For more information contact Susan Hessney-Moore at smoore3@unm.edu or 925-9538 or visit elibrary.unm.edu/news.
Unique Portion of New Mexico History Preserved at Zimmerman Library
February 25, 2011 | By Karen Wentworth
It was the late 1970's. Albuquerque was on a growth spurt and the steadily increasing numbers of single and divorced people were becoming frustrated trying to deal with a society that was primarily marriage/family oriented. Marilyn Stutt was working in real estate in 1977 when she began listening to the complaints of her many single acquaintances. Among other problems they faced was the difficulty in meeting other singles.
She began talking with friends about putting together a helpful, singles oriented newsletter that would include a listing of things to do and places to do, a personals column through which they could meet other eligible singles, along with interesting informative articles. However, it was soon obvious it needed to be a magazine rather than just a newsletter, so the "Albuquerque Singles Scene" was born. The publication was an instant success, retaining a large and loyal readership for the next two decades.
The magazine is now long gone, but it documented a unique place in the history of the city. Now that history is available to researchers at the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections at Zimmerman Library. A just completed archive provides a glimpse of the collection.
Stutt knew nothing about producing magazines when she started. She had never worked on a magazine, but she was undaunted. She set up the office in her home, hired a small staff, talked friends into writing articles for free and plunged in.
The personals column was the most popular part of the magazine from the beginning. Stutt says she took only tasteful personal ads - men seeking women or women wanting to meet eligible men. No swinger ad, no same sex ads, no fetishes. It was a big departure from other local publications around the country that explored the darker side of love and sex and it made "Albuquerque Singles Scene" unique. That conservative approach helped her convince local businesses to allow her to set up distribution racks.
A breakthrough came when a regional manager at Smith's Grocery chain looked at the new magazine, recognized singles as a potential market, and decided to devote a section in one of the local stores to food items that might appeal to single people. Smith's was also the first to distribute the magazine in its stores and it literally flew off the racks. Another distribution rack at the airport proved popular when visitors and new people in town picked it up because of its entertainment guide.
Stutt was making up her business plan as she went along, so she didn't always take the well traveled road. For instance, when she was thinking about ad sales, she turned to her niece Patti, a young woman with no sales experience.
Over the next two decades partners came and went. An effort to franchise the magazine led to start up publications in Dallas, Houston, El Paso and San Antonio.
It was a long and difficult struggle to keep "Albuquerque Singles Scene" afloat. The magazine itself changed names twice and legal battles with partners had Stutt in and out of the editor's chair, but she always managed to overcome the obstacles until times changed and singles found other ways to get together.
In 1999, the magazine finally folded. A dozen years later Stutt's son, Scott contacted the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections wondering whether a complete set of the magazine and an autobiography that she had recently written for her children would be of interest for the collection at Zimmerman Library. The answer was yes, and the collection has just been opened to the public.
Jordan Biro, the graduate student who works with the collection, notes that the collection's value lies in Stutt's early recognition of the growing importance of singles in the 1970's and the untapped marketplace potential for retail advertisers in the Albuquerque area. Further, researchers will find useful information on issues of gender roles and the growing public acceptance of the singles lifestyle. It's a part of the history of Albuquerque now - an artifact of the disco era when singles found moral support and an opportunity to find love in the pages of a local magazine.
The Inter-American Studies Program of University Libraries announces a new exhibition which will open in the Herzstein Latin American Gallery on March 5, 2011. "Illustrated Identities: The Book in the Latino Imaginary"
The theoretical concept of Latino/a Imaginary, challenges the idea that there is single a Latino/a identity while also suggesting that prejudice gets acted out by the very people who are victims of it -- thus perpetuating the notion that there is a singular -- in this case Latino identity.
This exhibition celebrates Latino imaginations as expressed in books that traverse time and space, not to mention the strict codification of multiple voices and formats in overly simplified identifications.
The exhibition which features historical texts and codices as well as, contemporary works from authors participating in the Latino/a Imaginary, challenges strict categorizations such as Latino, writer, artist and performer, while also illustrating the power of multiple identities expressed across writing, illustration and performance.
On March 5 at 11:00 am in the Herzstein Gallery UNM Students Gina Diaz and Nick Sanchez in American Studies, Arturo Araujo in Art and Art History and Kristen Valencia, UNM Center for Regional Studies Fellow also in American Studies will kick off this exhibit with presentations addressing Latino images and identities in art, literature and film.
For more information about this exhibit contact Pauline Heffern at 277-0818 or visit elibrary.unm.edu/news. This program is part of the Latino/a Imaginary collaboration organized with 516 ARTS, UNM College of Fine Arts, National Hispanic Cultural Center, the Outpost Performance Space, and the Tamarind Institute.
View the complete guide to programs.
View Latino Literary Imagination Conference Information
The UNM University Libraries will host "Fractals, Chaos, and the Patterns of Nature," a lecture by Dr. Jonathan Wolfe, on Wednesday, March 2, at 1:00 p.m. in Zimmerman Library's Willard Reading Room.
Dr. Jonathan Wolfe is the creator, producer, and narrator of the First Friday Fractals show. First Friday Fractals is a sold-out monthly event at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. The award-winning full-dome planetarium show takes viewers on a tour of fractals in nature and zooms through infinitely complex mathematical fractals. Dr. Wolfe will give an adapted lecture and presentation for the students of UNM. A reception will follow. For more information contact silvialu@unm.edu.
Sumptuary laws (from Latin sumptuariae leges) are laws that attempt to regulate habits of consumption. Black's Law Dictionary defines them as "Laws made for the purpose of restraining luxury or extravagance, particularly against inordinate expenditures in the matter of apparel, food, furniture, etc.". Traditionally, they were laws that regulated and reinforced social hierarchies and morals through restrictions on clothing, food, and luxury expenditures. In most times and places they were ineffectual.
Sumptuary Law covers many fields, including: law, business, sociology, art, costuming, anthropology, politics, history and women's studies.
Books from the Parish Memorial Library, Centennial Science and Engineering Library, Fine Arts and Design Library and Zimmerman Library are displayed and all books are available for check out to staff, students and faculty. Look at the books, costumes, jewelry, corsets, lace, shoes, goblet and other related items. The display will be up through the end of February.
The Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections of the University Libraries at the University of New Mexico is pleased to announce that the LaDonna Harris papers and Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO) records are now available for research use. Processing this collection was made possible through a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
The collection consists of correspondence, documents, photographs, reports, and audio/video recordings from LaDonna Harris' life as an activist and from AIO's four decades of operation as a non-profit organization involved in advocacy and development projects related to the needs and rights of Native Americans. The bulk of the 140 box collection dates from 1970-2000.
LaDonna Harris, a longtime Albuquerque resident, has been an ardent activist and advocate for Native American equality and social justice. She is the founder and president of AIO, an organization dedicated to facilitating initiatives to enrich the cultural, political, and economic lives of indigenous peoples around the world. Headquartered in Albuquerque, NM, AIO continues to serve native peoples around the world.
A guide to the collection is available via the Rocky Mountain Online Archive: http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=nmumss862bc.xml
For more information contact Beth Silbergleit at bsil@unm.edu or (505) 277-0060.
Over the weekend a water pipe broke outside of Zimmerman Library leaking a significant amount of water into the Zimmerman Basement. Most of the damage occurred in staff offices but some Zimmerman study rooms and other public spaces are also damaged. Cleanup crews worked all weekend to remove water. Fans and dehumidifiers are improving the situation. Students can still use many of the public areas in the basement but the equipment will be noisy. We'll keep you updated on the situation.
NOTICE: Hours Change for Centennial Science and Engineering Library
We are anticipating closing Centennial Science and Engineering Library (CSEL) and MAGIC on Saturdays for the rest of the semester beginning on Saturday February 19th.
CSEL hours for Sunday through Friday will not change. CSEL will be open the Saturday before finals.
Cuts in library staff numbers are significant which means we can only staff the highest use locations on Saturday. Alternative services for you to use:
Daria Labinsky has donated 29 original photographs by Ansel Adams to the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections. These photographs were produced by Adams in the 1930's for a proposed book on New Mexico architecture to be written by Mary Austin and Frank Applegate. The book was never published, but Adams photographs of buildings from around New Mexico remained in Applegate's family and were handed down to Labinsky by Applegate's niece Gretchen Beall. The photographs will be added to the Frank Applegate Photograph collection in the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections. Contact the CSWR for more information 505.277.3814.
The Navajo Transcripts from the American Indian Oral History collection are now available at New Mexico's Digital Collections. Searchable text allows easy access to the wide variety of subjects discussed in the interviews. There are 385 Navajo transcripts of recordings made from 1967 to 1972. These are mainly interviews with reservation Navajos, but also include 65 recordings of community meetings and 18 interviews with non-Navajos who lived on the reservation or who worked with the Navajo. Many of the transcripts contain personal and family histories with information on society, education, ceremonies, legends, language, religion, economy, government and history. Specific subjects include the Long Walk, BIA boarding schools, livestock, farming, traditional stories, crafts, public work programs and modern health issues. Historical and contemporary intertribal relations and relations with nearby communities are also covered.
In addition to the Navajo transcripts, sample recordings from the American Indian Oral History collections are also online. The sample recordings, 27 of which are Navajo, are restricted and can only be accessed from a UNM IP address. There are no access restrictions on the transcripts. For help with this collection visit or contact the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections in Zimmerman Library.
UNM IT has launched a new service for smart phone users. Among the many services provided is the ability to check library hours and to renew books. Lobo Mobile works on a variety of smart phones and has apps for campus maps, bus schedules, campus directory and IT services. Be sure to check out the full story on UNM Today.
Out of Bounds: Art in All Dimensions, a juried student art exhibition, will be on view in the Fine Arts and Design Library on the fourth floor of George Pearl Hall from October 25, 2010 through February 4, 2011. The opening reception and artist talks will be held on November 12 from 4 pm to 6 pm. The student artists will give brief talks about their work beginning at 4:30.
Ligia Bouton, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Foundations at the University of New Mexico who served as guest curator describes the exhibition, "The artists assembled in this exhibition are all interested in the representation of bodies, but choose to splinter and fracture its form - partitioning, severing, reconfiguring, and isolating the body in order to both generate provocative narratives and recontextualize the familiar. Each of these artist approaches this process in completely different ways, and with a disparate range of materials. For Alyssa Russo, disembodied hands and legs serve as insistent reminders of the complicated functions of the living body that we might take for granted. Focusing on the mind rather than the corporal, Robert Stembridge employs a fragmented portrait in his collage "She's Gone" in order to gesture towards the fallibility of memory. In all of these works, the known shapes of the body are broken apart, recast, and reassembled, leaving the viewer with the distinct feeling that the sum of the parts is far greater than the original whole."
About the Artists:
Jennifer Scheuer currently is studying lithography at the Tamarind Institute. In 2009 she received my BFA in Art: Printmaking, with a minor in Art History. Scheuer says, "My work is greatly influenced by history, classical technique and theory. As a figurative artist, I find the feminist argument that the body cannot escape objectification or the male gaze limiting. Through the process of research, writing and lecturing on how contemporary and historical art contextualizes the body, I came to realize that the discussion of the body as object fit both my feminist voice and religious upbringing."
Alyssa Russo is a senior completing a BFA in the College of Fine Arts. She describes her work as, "somewhat research based, and concerned with systems. I often paint with references on the microscopic level, because the openness in the abstracted forms from images of the body's interior inspire me. There is a mysterious quality to the things that we unknowingly carry within us. I am interested in the breakdown of things, often invisible, as well as reconstruction of the delicate connections of these building blocks of life."
Robert Stembridge is a non-degree student at UNM. He describes his work in the exhibition as "an example of deconstruction, a facet of postmodernism. Deconstruction is an avenue of philosophy that infects literary criticism, art, and architecture. It seeks to investigate what is known by eliminating oppositions, the center, and everything that is assumed to be 'known'. This is accomplished by focusing on paradoxes and conflict."
Leslie Ayers is completing her MFA in Art. She explains that she "paints in order to cultivate beauty, oddity and metaphor. I create abstract narratives derived from my awe in and synthesis of natural landscape, architecture and my own subjective response to and perception of these elements. The final piece maps an allegory that exists to document my exploration of a specific phenomenal and simultaneously numinal space. These elements converge to offer an imprint of my living reality, inviting the viewer to consider a space that exists beyond the bounds of reason and everyday vision."
Jean Kempinsky is a non-degree student. She describes her work as "evolving over 30 years, using stone and found objects. I am using Roadrunners as a vehicle for my ideas, because they are in and out of my studio and I can't get them out of my mind."
Jessie Raney is a senior working in a BAED in Art Education who says, "In all of my work, there is a resounding theme of portraiture. I have a intense desire to reveal the intimate feelings and experiences of the people around me, as well as moments from my own life. Digital photography allows me the luxury of capturing a moment in time, whether constructed or existing, and allow others to revel in it."
Emma Difani is a junior working on a BAFA. She describes her work, "My intent with this project was to create a line of jewelry that uses bugs, instead or large jewels or beads, as the centerpieces for unique and alluring pieces of jewelry. From a distance, the bees or roaches appear merely to be another bead on the string, pretty and commonplace, but upon further inspection the viewer discovers the unsettling truth: those beads are real insects strung on a necklace. Forced to look much closer, they will discover what I have learned, that bugs are in fact incredibly beautiful and intricate organisms which highlight the point that even those aspects of the natural world which we dismiss as ugly or disgusting have a distinct and unique purpose and pleasing aesthetic. Roaches, for example, are the epitome of the lowly, loathed bug, yet through working with them I have discovered how visually appealing they can be. They are a beautiful deep mahogany color, smooth and glossy. From far away they look like a jewel fit to be placed next to any pearl."
Brent Thomas is a senior completing a BFA who is influenced by the beautiful New Mexico landscape. "I see the sky here as a vast treasure of blue, of azul, richer than lapis lazuli or turquoise. Though born by the Pacific, I now see water as a rare vein of silver, as treasure flowing in the Rio Grande, in acequias, in Bosque del Apache. I love to paint these. The creation of artwork based on observation allows an artist to share his meditations regarding the majesty and complexity of creation. This human endeavor, hopefully, alleviates some human loneliness. An artist shares perceptions, responses, ideas, and dreams with other persons, here and now, and through time."
For more information contact Susan Hessney-Moore at smoore3@unm.edu
Need a little more background on Rudolfo Anaya and his writing? Be sure to take a look at the Lobo Reading Experience Research Guide. You will find a biography, books, articles and a video of an interview with Professor Anaya. University Libraries has Anaya's manuscripts in the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections.
University Libraries' Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections fellows, Max Fitzpatrick and Ashley Sherry, will present "I Interact, Therefore, I Am: LaDonna Harris and A Life of Activism" on Friday, December 3, 2010 at 1:00pm in the Willard Reading Room, Zimmerman Library, UNM.
The Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections was awarded $50,175 from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to process the LaDonna Harris Papers, including the records of Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO). This lecture marks the completion of the project.
LaDonna Harris, a longtime Albuquerque resident, has been an ardent activist and advocate for Native American equality and social justice. She is the founder and president of Americans for Indian Opportunity, an organization dedicated to facilitating initiatives to enrich the cultural, political, and economic lives of indigenous peoples around the world.
Graduate fellows, Max Fitzpatrick and Ashley Sherry have been working under the direction of project archivist, Beth Silbergleit. Fitzpatrick is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology; Sherry is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology. Their presentation will focus on Harris' formation as an activist and include excerpts from an oral history recorded earlier this fall.
AIO continues to serve native peoples around the world. The CSWR is committed to preserving their record of achievement for future generations. The event is free and open to the public. For more information contact Beth Silbergleit at bsil@unm.edu or 277-0060.
Legendary Coach Bobby Knight will be in Albuquerque on Monday, Nov. 1 to help the University of New Mexico men's basketball team tip off the season and to help raise funds for University Libraries. Billed as an "Evening with Coach Knight," the event will begins at 7 p.m. in the Sandia Ballroom at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 1000 Woodward Pl., NW in Albuquerque. A portion of the proceeds will benefit University Libraries. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. See full story for details and ticket information.
University Libraries' Indigenous Nations Library Program Presents:
The Taking and Return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo: a tribal perspective
Gilbert Suazo, Sr., Taos Tribal Council Member and former Taos Pueblo Governor
October 20th, 2010
Brown Bag: Noon - 1pm
The Gathering Place, room 226 Zimmerman Library
Lecture: 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Student Union Building, Spirit/Trailblazer Room
Gilbert Suazo, Sr. a graduate of Haskell Institute is a Taos Pueblo tribal member, former Governor, and a lifetime Tribal Council member. His career in the world of science and technology spanned over 40 years at the University of Kansas and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) doing design, fabrication, and testing of experimental devices for electronics and particle physics experiments. During the last 8 years of his career at LANL he served as executive staff advisor for tribal relations and as Leader for the Laboratory's Tribal Relations Team, and retired from LANL in 2001. Gilbert continues to work for Taos Pueblo as a Water Resources Specialist where since 1992, by Tribal Council appointment, serves as co-spokesman for Taos Pueblo's Water Rights adjudication and settlement negotiations. He testified in 2008 before the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee for the Pueblo's water settlement legislation.
Gilbert, as a member of the younger generation, who actively supported the tribe's efforts for the return of the sacred Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo and, with support from other young community members, founded a group, the Youth of Taos Pueblo, to demonstrate the strong interest of the younger generation in the Pueblo's effort, and to mobilize active community support. Gilbert gave testimony, as a representative of the younger generation, in Senate Indian Affairs Committee's Blue Lake Hearings in 1970 and participated in the historic July 8, 1970 White House meeting when President Richard Nixon pledged his support for returning Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo and announced his national Indian policy.
In the years after the return of Blue Lake, Gilbert helped negotiate Taos Pueblo's land Claim Settlement in 1984, served as Chair of the Land Claims Settlement Committee that wrote two settlement funds usage plans. Gilbert has served in various tribal official capacities including as Lt. Governor in 2000 and as Governor in 2007. He continues to be active in community activities in educational, cultural, and land use matters and for protection of tribal lands, airspace, and water rights. Gilbert appeared in "Surviving Columbus" an award-winning documentary about Pueblo Indian survival and cultural protection, in "Unseen Spirits" a video documentary about air quality protection, and was featured in "Visions and Life Journeys-Contemporary Indian People of New Mexico," a 1992 publication by the New Mexico Indian Education Association.
Gilbert helped organize the first Blue Lake Victory celebration in 1971 and the 20th Commemoration in 1991. He served as program chair for the 40th commemoration celebration and was selected as the featured speaker to provide the Pueblo's perspective about the history and significance of the long struggle for the return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo and the great victory of its return in 1970.
For more information contact Mary Alice Tsosie at mtsosie@unm.edu or 277-8922.
Photograph: Historic meeting of Taos Pueblo delegation with President Richard M. Nixon on July 8, 1970 when the President pledged his support for the return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo. Photo provided courtesy of the Taos Pueblo Tourism Office.
Open Access Week, the global event to promote free, immediate, online access to research now entering its fourth year, has been declared for October 18 to 24, 2010. Open Access Week is an opportunity for the worldwide academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access (OA), to share what they've learned with colleagues, and to inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
University Libraries will have an information table in the Zimmerman Library Lobby from October 11th through October 24th for the UNM community highlighting information about UNM's Open Access Initiatives. We will also be hosting a colloquium on Open Access issues on October 18th. Speakers at the colloquium will introduce Open Access and explain how it can benefit the UNM community. Discussions will cover the impact of Open Access in both the sciences and humanities, as well as an overview of the related Open Data movement.
Open Access Week Colloquium
Monday, October 18 at noon in Zimmerman Library B48
Presenters: Amy Jackson, Digital Initiatives Librarian for University Libraries, Steve Koch, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Gary Harrison, Associate Dean Office of Graduate Studies.
Find out more from the Office of eScholarship website or on UNM's institutional repository LoboVault
University Libraries' Indigenous Nations Library Program (INLP) moved into a new space we have named The Gathering Place. Located in the main lobby on the second floor of Zimmerman Library, The Gathering Place will eventually be able to offer reading room, classroom, group study and web conferencing spaces for students and researchers. Workshops on conducting library research and drop in office hours are also being planned.
The INLP program was established in 2004 to provide Native American library outreach and information literacy services to the UNM community and New Mexico Native American communities. INLP also organizes a schedule of well-know speakers on Native American issues.
INLP librarians Mary Alice Tsosie (Diné) and Paulita Aguilar (Kewa) are busy organizing and planning for how to furnish and equip the 1,800 square feet of space. Students will be involved in planning, not only the functionality, but also the character and atmosphere. The ultimate goal is to provide a warm and welcoming location for any student interested in Native American culture.
Tireman Library, located in the College of Education, closed in July. A large portion of the books are now part of the Zimmerman Library collections and the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections.
The collection transfer brings many benefits for students and faculty who used materials from the Tireman collection. Cataloging the collection will make it easier to find items and since Zimmerman is open evenings and on weekends everyone who uses the collection will have more hours to use the materials.
The transferred books will add to University Libraries already considerable collection of children's and young adult literature. The library is in the process of adding Tireman books into LIBROS, the UNM library catalog. Every effort will be made to expedite the cataloging and help is available for students and faculty for finding Tireman books not yet cataloged, as well as for books already in University Libraries collections. An extensive FAQ about the collection transfer is available in pdf here.
The long term goal is to consolidate all of the children's and young adult level materials currently spread among four libraries into a single collection in a dedicated space. Plans are to provide comfortable study space near the collection. The library is actively investigating the logistics of this goal and will seek input from users of these collections.
The Tireman Native American collections are being housed in the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections (CSWR). The CSWR already has one of the best collections of research materials on Native American history and culture. These collections will benefit from being housed in a controlled environment. As with the other materials, the collection is being cataloged and will be searchable in LIBROS.
Textbooks and associated curricular materials, including kits and workbooks remain at the College of Education in University Advisement and Enrollment Center (bldg. 85), Room B90. To inquire about Tireman books and other materials not transferred to University Libraries, please contact Leslie Chamberlin, saticoy@unm.edu.
Grass Roots Narratives in Oaxaca and Cuidad Juarez: Images in blocks, stencils and photographs
September 15 - October 20, 2010
Two hundred years after Father Hidalgo proclaimed death to bad government and initiated Mexico's Independence, University Libraries presents its newly acquired ASARO (Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca) collection alongside UNM PhD student and photographer, Michael Wolff's photo narrative Sonidos de la Frontera. This exhibition in the Herzstein Latin American Reading Room Gallery on Zimmerman's second floor includes prints and spray paint stencils by the Oaxacan artists collective ASARO, known for it's association with the Popular Assembly of Oaxacan Peoples (APPO). The ASARO works and Wolff's reflections on current events in violence stricken Juarez address 21rst century Mexican military and police occupations on Mexico's Northern and Southern fronts. These stories reflect daily lives and grassroots movements at opposing ends of the Mexican Republic. More importantly, they represent Mexican peoples unifying for peace and sovereignty.
Opening Reception and potluck on the 200 year anniversary of Mexican Independence, September 15th, 2010 at 5:30 PM in the Herzstein Latin American Reading Room in Zimmerman Library. Opening night will include talks by Michael Wolff and the exhibition curator, Mikey G. De la Rosa, a recent UNM Latin American studies graduate.
JSTOR Plant Science is an amazing new resource. It's basically an online meta-herbarium. For the non-botanists among us, that's basically a dead plant museum. But online! And really super cool! Institutions around the world have contributed digitized specimens, and there's a great deal of linking information like botanical drawings and photographs. It's a fantastic resource for botanists, ecologists, taxonomists, biogeographers, and anyone who enjoys plants.
Herbarium specimens, like zoological specimens, are important because they link a place to an organism. This information can be used to map out probable geographic distribution of a plant or animal. Searching for specimens common to a certain place can even help a researcher understand how a local environment has changed over time. Additionally, you can find holotypes - original specimens designated to be a referenced "type" to describe a species. A holotype is designated by the first person to publish a name, classification, and descriptive account of a plant.
By 2013, JSTOR expects to have over 2.2 million plant specimens available, making JSTOR Plant Science the largest collection of its kind in the world. These materials are now truly global in scope representing over 160 partners in 47 countries on 5 continents.
So check it out if you're so inclined - you can search by a particular plant, or by place, or even by botanist. There are some very old specimens in this digital collection as well as some more recent items. For help with this great JSTOR database contact: Anne Schultz at aschultz@unm.edu.
Lost? We can help. All the libraries on campus have maps and handouts to help get you to your classes. Stop by anytime and pick up a map, find out about library hours, find out how to reserve a study room in the library, or just ask for help. If you are out an about don't forget you can call Ask a Librarian at 277-9100 24/5 for help with your library questions.
Reserve a Room is a new service that lets UNM students, faculty, and staff view and schedule reservations online for group study rooms at Zimmerman Library, the Fine Arts & Design Library, Centennial Science and Engineering Library and Parish Memorial Library for Business and Economics. Any person with a valid UNM NetID can reserve a room. FAQ and How To Guide can be found at http://elibrary.unm.edu/reservearoom/index.php
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Aug 23, 2010 Update:
Parts of the West Wing are now open for student use. The East and West Reading Rooms and the Willard Room are open for studying. The Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections is open normal hours. From today until the project is completed all the work will be done during the night so library users are not disturbed by the noise.
July 23, 2010
The Zimmerman Library West Wing will be closed from now until the start of fall semester for the installation of a fire suppression system. After the devastating fire in the Zimmerman basement in 2006, the State Fire Marshall mandated the installation of a fire suppression system throughout Zimmerman Library. The installation of the system in the historically significant West Wing area is a particular challenge. The library administration and UNM Physical Plant have made a concerted effort to be sure that the installation is done in a way that has the least impact on the aesthetics of the interior. Martha Bedard, Dean of University Libraries, states, "We are absolutely committed to minimizing the impact of the installation on the lovely interiors of the West Wing. The area is one of the most popular spaces on campus for students and for significant UNM events. It will be just as beautiful when they are done as when they started." The amount of care that must be taken will extend the project throughout the summer and into the fall. The library has chosen to close the West Wing for the summer so crews can work throughout the day in order to complete the project as quickly as possible. Although the area is closed to students and the public, library employees will be able to retrieve books shelved in the area for check out.
The Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections and the Anderson Reading Room remain open.
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The University Libraries has two faculty openings: Data Librarian for Business and Economics and a Science and Engineering Data Librarian. There are also two student Programmer Fellowships available to work on the Celebrating New Mexico Statehood project.
Check out our Jobs page for more details.
The UNM University Libraries recently received grant funding from the New Mexico Historical Records Advisory Board through the State Commission of Public Records -- State Records Center and Archives to digitize songbooks and archival resources from the New Mexico Federal Music Project.
The Federal Music Project was established as part of the Works Progress Administration in 1935 and became the WPA Music Program from 1939-1943.
The goal of the project was to employ musicians on the relief rolls during the Great Depression, and the New Mexico project, under the direction of Helen Chandler Ryan, documented the Hispanic-American folk music traditions in New Mexico and provided music instruction to children from low income families.
The documents provide a valuable resource of Hispanic-American music traditions in the Southwest during the Great Depression and earlier.
This digitization project also corresponds with the 75th anniversary of the New Deal projects and programs as identified by the National New Deal Preservation Association, and will complement other New Deal exhibits presented by New Mexico cultural heritage museums.
The digitization project will be led by Amy Jackson with additional support from the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections.
The UNM University Libraries recently received a $351,641 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize and make available 100,000 pages of New Mexico newspapers. The newspapers to be digitized will reflect the states political, cultural and economic history, span New Mexico regionally and cover the late-nineteenth to the early twentieth century time period. An advisory board of scholars and librarians from around the state will make recommendations about which newspapers to digitize.
The digitization project will be led by Kathlene Ferris who will work closely with archivists at the University of North Texas to produce the digital files.
The completed digital newspapers will be available in New Mexico's Digital Collections (http://econtent.unm.edu) and at Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/), a product of the Library of Congress, in 2012.
Free printing? Yes it's true - use your Lobo Card and give it a try. UP to $10 free copying or printing per semester. Questions? Find the answer here.
All four of our libraries have new Xerox copiers that also serve as printers. In Zimmerman there are 2 located on the main floor and one in the basement. Parish Memorial Library has 2 located on the main level. The Fine Arts and Design Library has two located in the center of the library. Centennial Science and Engineering Library has two located on the main level. New print and copy release screens have also been installed that work a little differently than the old system. Just ask for help if you can't figure it out.
Soon, all the copiers will also have color printing available (50 cents per page). You may also have noticed that none of the Xerox machines accept cash any longer. Copy cards can be purchased for as little as $1 if needed using the dispensers located nearby the Xerox machines.
Explore the digital collections of libraries, archives and museums across New Mexico. 50,000 items and growing. New Mexico Digital Collections is hosted by University of new Mexico Libraries with funding from the UNM Center for Regional Studies.
