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![Flag Day is June 14th, 2019 Flag Day has been celebrated on June 14th since 1916. To recognize one of our greatest national symbols the New Mexico State Library has […]](http://hitchhiker.nmstatelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/310px-American_flags-200x110.jpg "Gov Docs @NMSL – Flag Day 2019")
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Gov Docs @NMSL – Flag Day 2019
Posted on June 11, 2019Flag Day is June 14th, 2019 Flag Day has been celebrated on June 14th since 1916. To recognize one of our greatest national symbols the New Mexico State Library has […] -
![As word gets out about the FamilyPass, more and more people are using it and are responding to the survey about their experience. Here is an update at how the […]](http://hitchhiker.nmstatelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Sites-200x110.png "FamilyPass Stats Update")
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FamilyPass Stats Update
Posted on April 13, 2016As word gets out about the FamilyPass, more and more people are using it and are responding to the survey about their experience. Here is an update at how the […] -
![Yet another of our undiscovered, underutilized treasures at the State Library is our growing collection of USGS Topographic Maps. Covering all 50 States and some overseas territories, the collection numbers […]](http://hitchhiker.nmstatelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/PICT0068-200x110.jpg "U.S. Geological Survey Topographic Maps at the State Library")
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U.S. Geological Survey Topographic Maps at the State Library
Posted on August 3, 2015Yet another of our undiscovered, underutilized treasures at the State Library is our growing collection of USGS Topographic Maps. Covering all 50 States and some overseas territories, the collection numbers […] -
![Undiscovered… The “Encyclopedia of the United States,” aka: The United States Congressional Serial Set Hidden away among the non-descript stacks of the State Library is a large, but unassuming series […]](http://hitchhiker.nmstatelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/P1080122-200x110.jpg "Undiscovered…The “Encyclopedia of the U.S.”")
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Undiscovered…The “Encyclopedia of the U.S.”
Posted on May 13, 2015Undiscovered… The “Encyclopedia of the United States,” aka: The United States Congressional Serial Set Hidden away among the non-descript stacks of the State Library is a large, but unassuming series […] -
![Santa Fe, N.M. – The New Mexico State Library Southwest Collection has acquired El Archivo de Hidalgo del Parral: a collection of more than 360,000 pages of handwritten documents from […]](http://hitchhiker.nmstatelibrary.org/wp-content/themes/project-ar2-master/images/empty_thumbnail.gif "Parral Papers Now Available at State Library")
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Parral Papers Now Available at State Library
Posted on February 19, 2015Santa Fe, N.M. – The New Mexico State Library Southwest Collection has acquired El Archivo de Hidalgo del Parral: a collection of more than 360,000 pages of handwritten documents from […] -
![SANTA FE, NM – February 17, 2015 – All Trails Lead to Santa Fe, a conference taking place September 17–20, 2015, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will explore the history […]](http://hitchhiker.nmstatelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/All-trails-lead-to-Santa-Fe-200x110.jpg "Conference Celebrates Three Historic Trails Leading to Santa Fe")
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Conference Celebrates Three Historic Trails Leading to Santa Fe
Posted on February 17, 2015SANTA FE, NM – February 17, 2015 – All Trails Lead to Santa Fe, a conference taking place September 17–20, 2015, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will explore the history […] -
![Ceremony (Penguin Classics, 2006, anniversary edition) by Leslie Marmon Silko Angst, alienation, despair, feeling like a stranger in a strange land, the search for independence, the desire for acceptance — […]](http://hitchhiker.nmstatelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Ceremony-Leslie-Marmon-Silko-m1-200x110.jpg "Great Books about New Mexico: Ceremony")
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Great Books about New Mexico: Ceremony
Posted on November 10, 2014Ceremony (Penguin Classics, 2006, anniversary edition) by Leslie Marmon Silko Angst, alienation, despair, feeling like a stranger in a strange land, the search for independence, the desire for acceptance — […] -
![By Patricia Hewitt Jack Thorp’s Songs of the Cowboys (Museum of New Mexico Press 2008 Centennial edition, with CD) Cowboys and vaqueros (a term which likely gave rise to the […]](http://hitchhiker.nmstatelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/thorpsongslgz-200x110.jpg "Great Books about New Mexico: Songs of the Cowboys")
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Great Books about New Mexico: Songs of the Cowboys
Posted on October 20, 2014By Patricia Hewitt Jack Thorp’s Songs of the Cowboys (Museum of New Mexico Press 2008 Centennial edition, with CD) Cowboys and vaqueros (a term which likely gave rise to the […] -
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I continue to be amazed…
Posted on May 8, 2014as to what can be found on the web, and especially on YouTube. As reported on the School Library Journal, British Pathé turned its archive, spanning the 1890s through the […]