Library Newsletter, November 2012

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THANK YOU very much to the 72% of the voters in Taos County who voted yes on Bond B for libraries. This is the highest percentage of yes votes for this bond out of all the counties across the state. You certainly have proven how much northern New Mexicans see the value in a literate community. Again, thank you for your support as these bond monies will go directly to resources that will benefit YOU.

It's just so exciting that I can walk over to a college library and sit and read to my heart's content!

Since this is YOUR community college library please don't ever hesitate to submit your suggestions or recommendations for book titles, newspaper, magazine or journal titles, or electronic resources that you think would be of use in YOUR library.

The library's new location at the Klauer campus is proving to be really beneficial for the students, and it has been exciting to meet new community members from the nearby neighborhoods. It's been nice to hear the positive remarks as people enter the building and see how we've been able to transform the space to be welcoming yet so functional. This could not have been done without the teamwork of UNM employees across several departments from business and accounting to construction management to physical plant to library design teams.

Please come by to see if there's a quiet corner here for you to read or study. One community member stated recently, "It's just so exciting that I can walk over to a college library and sit and read to my heart's content!" 

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Lecture Long Journey with Saint Kateri

Giovanna Paponetti’s Long Journey with
Saint Kateri
Giovanna Paponetti, Author

Taos Public Library December 8, 2012
1:30—3:30 Admission Free

The lecture “Giovanna Paponetti’s Long Journey with Saint Kateri” will: highlight the life of Kateri Tekakwitha cover Giovanna’s commission for altar panels based on events in Kateri’s life that she painted for the St. John the Baptist Church at Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo the resulting book,  Kateri: Native American Saint: the Life and Miracles of Kateri Tekakwitha and Giovanna’s trip to the Vatican in Rome to attend the October 21, 2012, canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American saint.

** Giovanna will sign copies of her special commemorative canonization edition of Kateri: Native American Saint (2012). Proceeds from book sales will go towards the purchase of a frame for the print, Kateri with Her Community of Women, that Giovanna donated to the San Geronimo Church at Taos Pueblo in 2011.

On October 21, 2012 Kateri Tekakwitha was canonized a Saint by Pope Benedict XVI in a cermnony held at the Vatican. She was born of a Catholic Algonquin mother and a Mohawk father.
Saint Kateri was influenced by the fervent Christianity of her mother and of the Black Robes to live a life of remarkable virtue, at heart not only a Christian - "a praying Indian" - but a Christian virgin. Father Pierre Cholenec, a witness at her deathbed, states that at the time of her death Kateri's face "... so dis- figured and so swarthy in life, suddenly changed about fifteen minutes after her death, and in an instant became so beautiful and so fair that just as soon as I saw it (I was praying by her side) I let out a yell, I was so astonished, and I sent for the priest who was working at the repository for the Holy Thursday service. At the news of this prodigy, he came running along with some people who were with him. We then had the time to contemplate this marvel right up to the time of her burial.”

The lecture will highlight the life of Kateri Tekakwitha and cover Giovanna’s commission for altar panels based on events in Kateri’s life that she painted for the St. John the Baptist Church at Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo. She will talk about the inspiration for these panels and the resulting book, Kateri: Native American Saint: the Life and Miracles of Kateri Tekakwitha. The author will highlight her trip to the Vati- can in Rome to attend the canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American Saint.

Giovanna Paponetti resides in Taos, New Mexico, and since 2001 has been an adjunct professor in the Art Department at the University of New Mexico-Taos. In 1998, she was commissioned by the Town of Taos to paint four large historical murals, beginning with Taos Pueblo in the year 1300. Her Kateri Tekakwitha altar screen, commissioned for St. John the Baptist Church at Ohkay Owingeh in New Mexico, was completed in 2010. Giovanna's paintings have been published in history textbooks and shown in PBS documentaries.

To Order a Copy Visit: http://www7.taosnet.com/giovanna/Book.html
More Information Call 575-737-2590

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You will have the opportunity to apply for tuition assistance, credit for classes, plus a stipend. You’ll also have a coach to guide you at school, help place you in internships and assist with future employment. If you are a nontraditional student or worker interested in pursuing a certificate program or returning to college for career training, you are a good fit for the Accelerate program.

For More Information on Scholarships visit: http://acceleratenm.org