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Recovering Abiquiú’S Lost Church Records, Samuel E. Sisneros
Recovering Abiquiú’S Lost Church Records, Samuel E. Sisneros
University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications
In early 2016, an elderly couple came into UNM’s Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections determined to donate six hide-covered books to the archives. They confessed they did not know their contents and that even though the books were in the care of the family for many years, they thought UNM would be a suitable place for them to be preserved and studied. I immediately realized that these antique books were the long lost baptismal, marriage and burial registers (1777-1861) from the Mission Church of Santo Tomás Apóstol de Abiquiú and that the rightful repository for them was the …
Paper Presented At The National Council Of Preservation Education Conference, Samuel E. Sisneros
Paper Presented At The National Council Of Preservation Education Conference, Samuel E. Sisneros
University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications
Historic preservation’s principles and practices directly correlate and support the charge of librarians and archivists to provide resources for the public and contribute to scholarship and community building. This paper, presented at the National Council of Preservation Education conference in Denver, Colorado (Oct. 10-12, 2019), will discuss the research methodologies, historical context and preservation issues of a recovery project of an historic site in New Mexico.
Belén Plaza Vieja And Colonial Church Preservation And Interpretive Plan, Samuel Sisneros
Belén Plaza Vieja And Colonial Church Preservation And Interpretive Plan, Samuel Sisneros
University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications
The vision and mission of the Belén Plaza Vieja Preservation Committee is to recover the buried and forgotten history of the town of Belén’s first church and plaza and recreate to some extent the “Plaza Vieja” site to be a vibrant social and educational destination so that local community members and visitors can discover and reclaim this important historical treasure as a vibrant social and spiritual space. It is hoped that this preservation and interpretive plan serves to inform the Belén Plaza Vieja Colonial Church site property owners and stakeholders of possible options and strategies towards a coordinated effort to …
Collection Revitalization At The University Of New Mexico Libraries, Samuel E. Sisneros
Collection Revitalization At The University Of New Mexico Libraries, Samuel E. Sisneros
University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications
This article discusses a project that took an early archival manuscript collection that was poorly described and catalogued, and underused and revitalized it (in a sense recovered a lost collection) by re-describing it and digitizing material from the collection for better (new) public access.
A Collection Of Book Reviews And Essays, Samuel E. Sisneros
A Collection Of Book Reviews And Essays, Samuel E. Sisneros
University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications
Contains selected papers written by Samuel Sisneros, Masters Degree program in Borderlands History, University of Texas at El Paso. See cover page for index of papers.