Photos from Friday Afternoon Art Gingerbread Houses

There were infants on laps, but the youngest who actually worked on a house was  2 yrs. old.  There were kids of all ages (including teens) and parents and grandparents.

 

 

SFPL Presents Spanish/Bi-Lingual Books and Babies, returning January 8th to Southside and La Farge

FAA: "Gingerbread Houses", December 22 at Southside

Photos from Science After School at La Farge, 12/14

Having fun at La Farge learning about anatomy! 

 

 

Photos from the Main Library 30th Anniversary Celebration

Thanks to all that came to our party on Sunday, a good time was had by all! Many thanks to our live band the MARC Record Trio for providing the soundtrack to the event!

 

 

 

All photos by WC

Reminder: WRAP Winter Reading Program starts Friday!

Photos from the Jan Brett visit

Santa Fe Public Library would like to thank Jan Brett for her visit to the Main Library last week. We had a lot of fun! Here are some photos of the event.

 

 

Photos by WC and CD

Winter Decorations at the Main Library

It's beginning to look a lot like ... winter! Huge thanks to the Parks and Recreation Department
@CityofSantaFeParksandRecreation for decorating us in royal winter style!

 

 

 Post and photos by AA

FAA: Printmaking, December 8 at Southside

REMINDER: 30th Anniversary Celebration of the opening of the Main Library, Sunday, December 10, 2:30 p.m.

The Santa Fe Public Library’s Main Library is celebrating 30 years at its current location of 145 Washington Avenue on Sunday, December 10 from 2:30 p.m. – 4:00pm.

The Library is inviting those who helped move the old Library from 120 Washington Avenue across the street to its current location in 1987 as special guests for the Celebration!   All are asked to join us in celebration and to sign a special guest book to commemorate the 30^th Anniversary.

Please come join us for a trip down memory lane with bizcochitos and live music from the MARC Record Trio! The band plays a bohemian mix of covers from everywhere, on guitar, bass, accordion, and percussion. A reception in the Community Room will welcome new and former Library supporters. The Library asks that the public invite their friends and neighbors to come by to celebrate and say hello.

Members of the community and staff, coordinated by Library Director Marcy Litzenberg, formed a chain across Washington Avenue and 20,000 books were placed in the new Library building. Over 1,100 residents joined the chain and helped open the Library in 1987. The Library was assisted in the celebration by the members of the Santa Fe Woman’s Club and Library Association. The original Library in Santa Fe was founded by the Woman’s Board of Trade and Library Association in 1896 in the barracks at Fort Marcy.

The current Library was formerly a Court House and then redesigned as City Hall, with the fire department and police department in the building.  City Council met in the old judges’ chamber which today is the Southwest Reading Room.

The original Berardinelli Building was designed by the famous architect John Gaw Meem and completed in 1932. His design of the Southwest Reading Room includes a parquet floor, library tables, and floor to ceiling glass cases for rare books. The high plaster walls support a wooden ceiling of boards laid over with carved wooden vigas and carved crossbeams.  The wrought iron lamps and tin chandeliers add a soft glow to the room. The room is popular for readers and computer users today.