Center for Southwest Research (UNM)

United States New Mexico  Archives and LibrariesCenter for Southwest Research (UNM)

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Contact Information
E-mail: [mailto:cswrref@unm.edu cswrref@unm.edu].

Address:


 * Zimmerman Library 1st Floor, West Wing
 * University of New Mexico
 * 800 Yale Blvd NE
 * Albuquerque, NM 87106

Telephone: 505-277-6451

Hours and holidays: Hours (and Holidays)

Directions, Maps, and Public Transportation:


 * The Zimmerman Library east of the Duck Pond and north of the Student Union Building on the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque.


 * Zimmerman Library location on UNM campus map.
 * Zimmerman Library floor map.


 * Public Transportation: ABQ RIDE bus routes 5, 11, 16, 66, 766 Red, 777 Green, and 790 Blue each have stops at the University of NM central campus within two or three blocks of the Zimmerman Library.

Internet sites and databases:


 * Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections Archival materials (RMOA), books, digital collections, LoboVault, other resources, using CSWR collections, and collection strengths. Books from the CSWR can be requested in the Anderson Reading Room, and do not circulate.
 * WorldCat Local UNM Libraries book collection searches by keyword, title, author, ISBN, and ISSN.
 * Quick Search journals, databases and UNM library holdings.
 * Databases search by subjects, titles, and special types.
 * Lobo Vault UNM faculty, graduate student theses and dissertations from 2009 through the present, and UNM administrative records.
 * Southwestern Research Guides-Searchable Research Guides cover a variety of subject areas. They are created by librarians and are a great place to start your research.
 * Celebrating New Mexico Statehood Designed to facilitate research about New Mexico's past, cultural heritage materials from 12 New Mexico institutions are available here for study and research. Materials include photographs, documents, maps, posters, art, music and video.

Collection Description
The Center for Southwest Research has records of organizations, personal papers, and other unpublished materials which document the cultural heritage and history of New Mexico and the Southwest U.S., with focuses on Mexico and Latin America, Native American, Chicano/Hispano, Spanish Colonial, and environmental history, local publications, archival, and rare materials. Includes manuscripts of politicians, historic and literary figures, architects, activists, attorneys, local families, organizations, and businesses, 40,000 books and periodicals, and 120,000 images since the 1850s.

Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a source at the , a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service &amp; pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons, and federal employees.
 * National Archives II, College Park, MD, Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, and Treasury all after 1900.
 * New Mexico State Records Center and Archives Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Diocese of Gallup, censuses, district court, land grants, wills, diaries, family papers, prisons, family and local histories, newspapers.
 * Yellowstone National Park Archives records of major park projects, concessionaires, donated manuscripts, personal papers, hundreds films and oral history recordings.

Similar Collections


 * National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, MO., has millions of military personnel, health, medical records of discharged and deceased veterans of all services starting with World War I, and federal employee records.
 * Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, Mormon records.

Neighboring Collections


 * Archives and Historical Services Division is the central archives of New Mexico State Government The agency is mandated by law to collect, preserve and make available to the public and all branches of government, permanent public records, historical manuscripts, photographs and other materials that contribute to the understanding of New Mexico history
 * National Archives Rocky Mountain Region (Denver)Serves Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.Includes Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Land Management, Air Force Acadamy, Bureau of Indian Affiars, National Park Service, naturalizations for CO, MT, NM, UT,[ U.S. Food Administration, Denver Mint, Internal Revenue Service, Forest Service, federal censuses 1790-1930 and selected indexes, Indian censuses, passenger arrival lists, military service through the Spanish American War, World War I draft registrations for CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY, military pension and bounty land, Utah polygamy trials, court records of appeals, bankruptcy, criminal and civil cases in CO, MT, NM, ND, SD, UT, WY, and other states,U.S. diplomacy, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and Reconstruction, Native American-Government relations, westward expansion, and World War II, tours, genealogy workshops, and presentations.
 * New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York City has censuses, city directories, church, cemetery, Bible, land, probates, genealogy, local history, and manuscripts.
 * New Mexico Genealogical Society manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, histories, directories, maps, photos.
 * Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico Hispanic Genealogical Research.
 * Historical Society of New Mexico We offer links to organizations, museums and other historic points of interest in New Mexico..
 * Courts: city, state, and federal.
 * [Albuquerque Public Library] includes finding aids and collections guides to archives, manuscripts, oral histories, photographs, paintings, oral history database, and maps.
 * New Mexico State Libraries, history, biography, ethnic studies, newspapers, government documents.
 * Albuquerque Public Library Special Collections.