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- EIN 85-0314391
- (505) 579-9181
- Po Box 310 Dixon NM 87527-0310 USA
- embudovalleylibrary.org
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Mission: The mission of the embudo valley library and community center is to build community by providing educational, cultural, and recreational resources for area residents. The library provides public library service, literacy programming for children and youth, formal and informal public gathering space for meetings and resolana, and an evening cultural series. Our property is home to a volunteer community radio station, a public park, a farmer's market, and a cooperative grocery store.
Programs: Library service: open 6 days a week, we received 18,994 visits to the library and all our programs, or 13. 31 visits per capita. We circulated 13,930 items. We hosted a total of 197 programs for children and teens. Our evening lecture series is our librarys newest program, with 27 presented in the last year.
youth conservation corps: we completed our first ever youth conservation corps project in august 2016. We hired 6 youth to make improvements to library grounds. They installed landscaping and built a dry stacked stone wall.
afterschool program: this program meets twice a week after school for grades k-6. We continued a steam curriculum for this years program, offering half of 67 sessions focused on stem topics. With nm arts, professional artists taught 8 dedicated art sessions. We had 724 total visits to the program, with an average attendance of 11 students per session.