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Programs and Events
Our library now offers digital and audio books from OverDrive's Libby. Tap here to get started. You'll need your library card number to register - call 575-581-4608 and we can supply you with the number if necessary. Saturday October 19. 10:30 - 11:30 am.
MOVE! ACT! IMAGINE! A time for kids ages 5-11 to get away from their screens and interact in person! Theatre based games and activities are designed to stimulate imagination, build confidence, and develop creative expression. Mostly about having fun together! Class size limited to 12. Call to register: 575-581-4608. Classes are FREE. We Love our Library Story and Music Hour with a STEAM twist Discontinued for Summer, Resume October, 2024 Story Hour is for our youngest community members and their caregivers. Ages 2 - 5 encouraged. We'll feature a rotating cast of readers and story-tellers. Call for more information: 575-581-4608 Saturday October 26. 10:00 am - 2:00 pm. Fall Fruit Share Festival at the library. Harvest your homegrown fruit and bring it to share with the community. We'll have a cider press on site so bring your apple varieties to turn into fresh cider, apple bobbing for fun, a judged fruit pie competition, pumpki painting for kids, music. Call us if you need help picking fruit and we'll try to match you with volunteer pickers: 575-581-4608. Saturday December 7, 2024 Noon - 4 pm. Our combined Silent Auction and Holiday Party. Silent Auction Items accepted beginning Nov. 1. Kanopy Movies for Patrons
Did you know our library continues to offer a movie streaming service called Kanopy? By registering with your El Rito library card number you can access thousands of top-of-the-line movies, including kids movies, the Great Courses series, international films - all for free. Go to kanopy.com to get started. Sign up for our Monthly Newsletter
Click Here Learn More Local History
A Developing Project will focus on historic fruit growing in Northern NM. Stay tuned! A Planned Oral History Project for El Rito Underway mid-April 2024. A New Traveling Exhibit We Created A grant from the Northern New Mexico National Heritage Area helped the El Rito Library create three new exhibit banner stands which we'll soon be transporting to schools and community meetings to talk about our community's fascinating natural and cultural history. To read about some of that history, click here. An Archaeology Conference We Held In September 2018 our library offered public presentations by archaeologists detailing studies of two interesting local sites, prehistoric Sapawe and historic Casita. For a copy of the conference program, click here. For Supporting Articles by Conference Presenters Click Here "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of a library."
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Wi Fi available outside and inside the library
Spring/Summer Hours
Tuesday - Friday 12 Noon to 5 pm Saturday 9 am - 2 pm Sunday & Monday closed Extra hours for special events
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