Lives Changed: The Keleher Family
Will Keleher was an avid, thorough and detail-oriented historian. He collected one-of-a-kind material, and the Keleher family thought it would be best to place their father’s collection at UNM.
University Libraries
It would be hard to find anything at UNM that reaches across almost 120 years—the past living side-by-side, or stack-by-stack, with the future—as do the University Libraries. This is where the world’s knowledge is made alive and available.
University Libraries contain millions of books, maps and historical records, accessible side-by-side with trillions of bytes-worth of digital information, much of it reachable from any computer on the planet. Some 1.5 million patrons walk through the doors each year, and there are more than three million digital visitors. Volumes from the 17th century requiring special permissions and gloved hands co-exist with fast-multiplying technologies that put the library on your smartphone. If academics are the heart and soul of UNM, then University Libraries are its gray matter.
From Books to Bytes—The Library Endures
University Libraries play an absolutely central role in student and faculty success at UNM, connecting them with the world’s knowledge through exceptional collections, services, facilities, instruction and research. All of New Mexico benefits, both from direct access to the collections—including many of the treasures of our state’s history—and from the discoveries made and ideas formed using the tools and leading-edge technologies the Libraries provide.
Within the Libraries, special collections and research programs serve the range of New Mexico’s diverse cultural and ethnic heritage, from in-depth Southwest history to an Indigenous Nations program to Chicano/Hispano/Latino research and Iberian/Latin American resources. The Libraries bring the entire campus together in one world-changing learning community.
Now Is Your Moment
The list of vital needs in the Libraries is as long as the list of people who pursue knowledge within and beyond their walls, but there are some common threads: preserving the iconic Zimmerman Library and funding the Indigenous Nations Gathering Place, a library space joining specialized Native American databases and Native American educators and leaders. The Libraries’ vision for cutting-edge services and technologies in New Mexico is clear, and now is your moment to help power that vision.
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UNM University Libraries have identified priorities where your support will power the greatest change. We invite you to download the complete campaign brochure and share our strategic vision to advance information and preservation in New Mexico and beyond.