Alamogordo Public Library, Public library in Alamogordo, United States.
The Alamogordo Public Library is a public library in Alamogordo, New Mexico, housing collections of books, digital materials, and educational resources for all ages. The building features reading areas, computer stations with internet access, and a variety of formats including audiobooks and music streaming options.
The library opened on March 1, 1900, funded by Charles Bishop Eddy's and John Arthur Eddy's Alamogordo Improvement Company through the Alamogordo Woman's Club. Ownership passed to the Alamogordo Library Association, then the Civic League, which sold it to the city for one dollar in 1958. After rented rooms, a building by architect John Reed opened at 920 Oregon Avenue in 1962 and doubled in size in 1987.
The library holds extensive collections of Spanish- and German-language books and materials on the Western writer Eugene Manlove Rhodes. It began on March 1, 1900, when the Alamogordo Woman's Club opened it with financial support from the Eddy brothers' Alamogordo Improvement Company.
Library cards are free to all Otero County residents, with the county paying the city an annual subsidy ($50,000 in FY 2023/2024). Card types range from full checkout and digital access to digital-only, internet-only and nonresident cards. The catalog went online in 2004 and runs on Syndetics Unbound.
The library holds extensive collections of Spanish- and German-language books and of materials on the Western writer Eugene Manlove Rhodes. Its digital 24 Hour Library gives cardholders access to more than 16,000,000 resources, including the Black Freedom Struggle archive of over 2,000 documents.
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