This paper summarizes and analyzes the program of Special Project Grants for public and community libraries in New Mexico. Funding for the program was by the New Mexico State Library through the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) Title I from fiscal year 1972 to fiscal year 1981. Information on LSCA and the procedure for obtaining…

The New Mexico State Library and the State Planning Office cosponsored a meeting to introduce Reading Is Fundamental to a wide cross-section of the state in September 1973. This meeting led to the establishment of numerous Reading Is Fundamental projects throughout the state in the summer of 1974. The planning, organization, execution, and results…

Librarians of New Mexico have long felt that the library services of the state are not well enough organized nor of sufficient strength to meet the challenges of providing the information-related services its citizens need. This concern led to a series of studies of the problems and joint efforts towards solving them. Public, school, academic, and…