Information & Facts

               Media Coverage

       Alamogordo Public Library activities are covered in local media:

  • Upcoming library events are publicized in Coming Events in Alamogordo Daily News, usually on the top of p. 3A
  • Alamogordo Daily News also publishes the regular column "At Our Library" by Bev Eckman-Onyskow on the first Thursday of each month
  • The library is featured on Allen Stenger's program "Focus on Libraries" the first Tuesday of each month, 8–9 AM, on KRSY 1230 AM, part of the WP Broadcasting System. Tune in each month and hear the latest library news and happenings.


       Library Fast Facts

Current library statistics as of end of FY 2010:

  • 25,913 registered borrowers
  • 248,951 checkouts
  • 145,157 visitors
  • 28,620 computer sessions
  • 105,220 items in the collection
  • 10,000 new books added
  • 107 subscriptions to magazines
  • 4,106 questions or assistance at Reference Desk
  • 3117 items delivered to homebound customers
  • 1,309 children in 2010 Summer Reading Program
  • 24,300 books read in 2010 Summer Reading Program
  • 2,396 new library cards issued
  • $885,906 budgeted annual operating cost

            A brief timeline

  • 1898 - Alamogordo founded
  • 1900 - Alamogordo Public Library founded by Women's Club; 12 items in collection
  • 1912 - New Mexico becomes a state; Alamogordo becomes an incorporated city
  • 1959 - Women's Club turns library over to city—the public library becomes a government operation
  • 1962 - current building built at 10th and Oregon, about 10,000 square feet
  • 1987 - current building expanded to 20,000 square feet
  • 1999 - study made of space needed for next 20 years; we need about 40,000 square feet by 2020
  • 2001 - IGA land donated to city as site for new library
  • 2005 - voters turn down bond measure to build new library
  • 2006 - New Mexico Legislature grants $1 million for new library
  • 2006 - Land donor Esther Sheldon dies, bequeaths $500,000 for new library
  • 2007 - Studio Southwest Architects chosen as architects of new building.
  • 2008 - Voters turn down bond measure to improve the library;  City returns land to the Sheldon Foundation;  capital outlay funding reverts to the state.
  • 2010 - record-breaking sales at the twice-annual book sales - proceeds benefitting the Alamogordo Public Library.  Foundation renovates the multi-purpose room at the Alamogordo Public Library.
  • 2011 - Books Revisited opens at White Sands Mall

                           






 

             Library History

The Alamogordo Public Library first opened for business on Thursday, March 1, 1900. It opened two years after the City of Alamogordo was founded and twelve years before New Mexico became a state and the City was incorporated. The first Library was located in a rented office, and it has outgrown several rooms and buildings since then. The current building at 920 Oregon Avenue was built in 1962. The Library outgrew this building too, and a major expansion was done in 1987.

 





 
 
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