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NMSU Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station Publications, 1889-Present
- The NMSU Extension and Experiment Station Publications have been produced for over 100 years. They provide research-based information about agriculture, health, economics, family life, and natural resources. This collection comprises over 7,000 publications representing agricultural research by New Mexico State University, including Circulars, Guides, Handbooks, Annual Data Reports, Research Reports and Bulletins, Technical Reports, and Task Force Reports that were written from 1889 to the present. In 2012, the NMSU Library and the NMSU College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences began collaborating to make this collection more accessible to the public by digitizing these important pieces of history and research. This ongoing project offers free, online access to the searchable, full-text, and images of the publications issued by both the Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) and the Cooperative Extension Service (CES).
Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences Historical Publications, 1912-1974
- The ACES Historical Publications Collection contains issues of newspapers published by the Agricultural Extension Service of New Mexico State University from 1912-1974. The ACES Historical Publications Collection includes four titles, The College Courier, The New Mexico Farm Courier, Extension Service News and New Mexico Extension News. These four publication series cover a span of over sixty years, and include over 600 individual issues written specifically for New Mexico countrymen. “The material for the various publications issued has been prepared by the respective project leader in charge of the work, with the assistance of the subject matter specialists and the department head concerned. All literature has been prepared in response to a demand from people out in the state and also in the furtherance of some project work under way. . . [We] publish a monthly “The New Mexico Farm Courier,” and send it directly to the farmers . Ten thousand copies are issued monthly and we are very much encouraged over the way it is being accepted by the rural people”* "The College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) is an engine for economic and community development in New Mexico, improving the lives of New Mexicans through academic, research, and Extension programs. What the College of ACES does, positively impacts water usage and conservation, food and fiber production and marketing, environmental stewardship, family development and health of New Mexicans."** Online access to the ACES historical publications has been provided through a partnership of the NMSU Library and the NMSU College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences. *Cited from the brochure, The Birth of the New Mexico Cooperative Extension Service, published in 2014 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Smith-Lever Act, which established the Cooperative Extension Service, a state-by-state national network of educators who extend university-based research and knowledge to the people. **Cited from the NMSU ACES home page
Amador Family Correspondence, 1856-1949
- The Amador family correspondence is made up of approximately 16,000 pages of letters, mostly in Spanish, from a Mexican-American family of prominence in the border region of southern New Mexico and northern Chihuahua, Mexico during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The letters illuminate the struggles and triumphs of a Mexican family as they negotiate transborder life on the U.S.-Mexico boundary following the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). Like many Mexicans who accepted American citizenship when the land where they lived passed from Mexico to the United States as a result of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Amadors were challenged to find a way to retain important aspects of their cultural heritage and identity while simultaneously adapting to a new social, political, and economic system. During their rise to prominence in Las Cruces, New Mexico, the family members kept up a prodigious correspondence with family, friends, business associates, clergy, and educators, among others, on both sides of the border. The bulk of the correspondence circulated between the border communities of Las Cruces, El Paso, and Ciudad Juarez, the three cities where the Amadors lived and spent most of their time. Some family members, at times, also lived in and corresponded from the cities of Chihuahua and Albuquerque. With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the NMSU Library digitized the correspondence in its entirety in order to increase access to this valuable resource. The project was completed in July 2025.