October 2024 – Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day (Monday, October 14) with a visit to the SAR library. Special walk-in hours will be 1:00 p.m to 5:00 p.m. Members can check out books from the new display about Indigenous peoples’ relationship to the land: Another America : Native American Maps and the History of Our Land by Mark Warhus, We All Go Back to the Land : the Who, Why, and How of Land Acknowledgements by Suzanne Keeptwo, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Pueblo Sovereignty : Indian Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas by Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks. These books and more will be on display through the end of October.

Nov. 11, 2023 – Come sample the delectable new book display in the library, where you can find titles like these on display through the holidays:

Oct. 4, 2023 – Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day (Monday, Oct 9) with a visit to the SAR library. Check out books by these Indigenous authors and more: Sherman Alexie, Paula Gunn Allen, Ned Blackhawk (SAR resident fellow and board member), Margaret Bruchac, Philip Deloria (SAR 2023-24 resident scholar), Vine Deloria, Jr. , Max Early (SAR resident fellow), Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Thomas King, Winona LaDuke, N. Scott Momaday (SAR resident fellow and senior scholar), Leslie Marmon Silko, Paul Chaat Smith, David Treuer (SAR resident fellow), Gerald Vizenor (SAR resident fellow).

Sept. 27, 2023 – All issues of SAR’s Exploration magazine are now available in PDF format in the library catalog. Look for “Online access: PDF” in the catalog record for each issue. For quick access, the Journals subpage has a link to the Exploration series. This is a valuable resource for SAR history and for Southwest archaeological sites. Exploration was published for a limited period (1970-1991) and is rich in photographs and feature articles about Bandelier, Chaco Canyon, Pecos, Grand Canyon, and more. One issue is all about China. The magazine is the only detailed source of SAR history for the early 1970s and 80s when the annual reports were minimal.

Sept. 18, 2023 – In response to the recent Oppenheimer film, there is currently a book display in the library about the Manhattan Project and Los Alamos featuring history, biography, fiction, ethics of war, anthropology, and environmental justice. The books are available to borrow for members and staff and will be on display through the end of September. The Atomic Reading list will be permanently available in the library catalog.

Sept. 12, 2023 – Visitors to SAR’s Seminar House will notice the books are now neatly organized and labeled. Over the summer, the books were inventoried, processed, and cataloged by the librarian and expert volunteers. The Seminar House book collection was created to showcase both SAR’s Advanced Seminar Series and the breadth of subjects published by the SAR Press. The books are for the exclusive use of guests attending events or residing in the Seminar House, particularly for Seminar participants, whose work SAR publishes in the Advanced Seminar Series. Circulating copies of all the titles are available in the library.

August 16, 2023 – Library visitors, staff, and resident fellows can now access several journals from any computer on campus! Browse current or past issues. Visit the new Journals subpage on the library website for all titles currently received in print format and links to those with online access. The library subscribes to these six journals (left) in both print and online format.

July 27, 2023 – Access SAR annual reports (1907-2005) directly from the library’s Digital Collections page. Reports from 1960 through 2005 are now complete, all scanned, cataloged, and uploaded by the librarian. Earlier years are becoming available as the digitization project continues. The reports document nearly 100 years of SAR activities, including the early history of the Museum of New Mexico and the School’s field archaeology. Reports from the last four decades are rich in photographs. Now a part of the New Mexico Digital Collections website, they will reach a much wider audience. As always, print copies of all annual reports are available for browsing in the library.

July 7, 2023 – The library has a copy of Shelby Tisdale’s new book, which will be featured in her talk at SAR’s upcoming President’s Circle event about Marge and Jack Lambert. Several photographs in her book are from the SAR library archives. The event will take place in Marge Lambert’s former house on SAR property, which is now used as a scholar residence for SAR fellows.

For more books about intrepid women in the profession, see the list in the online catalog about Women & Anthropology

April 19, 2023 – Library materials about SAR history, people, and programs, including the IARC and the El Delirio estate, are now compiled in the SAR History list. Located on the catalog home page, under the “Featured Lists” column on the left. Familiar titles like Peculiar Alchemy and Stephen Post’s archaeological study of the campus (print + online access) are joined by hidden gems such as the Amelia Elizabeth White home movies. The list includes various formats and materials, such as guidebooks, pamphlets, biographies, articles, films, lectures, and rare books.

April 2023 – El Palacio, the magazine published by the Museum of New Mexico, includes programs and people connected to SAR, particularly in the early twentieth century when SAR was part of the museum. The library’s print holdings (1917 to present), plus an index, are available to browse in a study carrel in the open book stacks. The New Mexico State Library digitized the publication for online access and searching.