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The Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections in Zimmerman Library has opened a new exhibit, “Life and Times Along Route 66.” The exhibit is located in the Frank Waters Room 105 in Zimmerman Library and will be up through Dec. 2016.  A...

Tomas Jaehn joined University Libraries in July as the Director of the Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections. Before joining the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences he worked at the Idaho State Historical Library and...

Alfonso Domingo will discuss his book La Balada de Billy el Nino on Tuesday, May 3 at 12 p.m. in the Frank Waters Room 105 at Zimmerman Library. The lecture will be in Spanish. He will be introduced by Professor Emeritus Enrique Lamadrid in the UNM...

Graduate Fellows at the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences work alongside full-time staff at the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections each year to process some of the special collections. That involves sorting and...

“It’s about love, loving my listeners, being a servant to them, creating a picture of the games in their minds.” That’s how Connie Alexander sums up his nationally-known sports announcing radio-TV career as a leading innovator of play-by-play...

 Digital Initiative and Scholarly Communication (DISC) employees and graduate fellows at the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences will host an open house in the recently opened office suite B25 in Zimmerman Library on Oct. 22. Current...

Michael Blake, author of “Dances with Wolves” died Saturday of heart failure in Tucson, Ariz. He was 69. His life’s work as an author and screenwriter is available at the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections in the College of...

As director of the UNM Center for Southwest Research, Mike Kelly is also part-time detective. Always on the lookout for documents or photographs of southwest history that can be added to the extensive collections in the UNM libraries, Kelly now launches a full-time investigation into a very specific part of Albuquerque history, taking sabbatical to look into some glass plate negatives that may have been left in the city by famed photographer Karl Moon.

Donatella Davanzo, a University of New Mexico graduate student, walks along some part of Route 66 in Albuquerque almost every day, photographing the buildings, the street and the fragments of history still visible along the roadside. Officially she is ...

Allen Cooper began his work as an activist in 1959, just after he left the U.S. Navy. Born and raised in Albuquerque, he says the Navy opened his eyes. He learned about racism and sexism and began to rethink his original intention to become an Episcopa