An Original Andrew Carnegie Library, 1904
Phone:
500 National Avenue
Las Vegas, NM 87701
505-426-3304
Hours of Operation
Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 8 am - 2 pm
Closed Sunday
About Carnegie Library
Carnegie Library is one of the many small-town libraries throughout the United States built with a grant from tycoon and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Designed by Rapp and Rapp architects, modeled after Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, the library is a fine example of Georgian Revival architecture. It is one of a handful of Carnegie Libraries that still operates like a library.
Meet The Team
Jeff Rudolph
Library Manager
LoriAnn Encinias
Children's Librarian
Rose Lee Romero
Library Clerk
Sylvia Garcia
Library Clerk
Dolores Crespin
Library Clerk
Programs, forms, and information
Forms & Information
Here you will find the forms and information needed for the library needs.
Story Time
Please join us at Carnegie Public Library in the Children’s Area for
Children's Story time every Wednesday at 1030am and 330pm.
Saturday Children's story time at 1030am Aug 19th, Sept 9, Sept 30, Oct 21, Nov 11, Dec 2, Dec 23.
Story time during June and July will not take place due to summer reading program..
The program is free and open to the public.
E-Books
E-books allow Carnegie Library patrons access to a shared collection of over 4,319 e-book titles and over 943 audiobook titles. As a shared collection, our patrons have access to all these titles and are not limited to our library's content.
For more information visit Carnegie Public Library to sign up today!!
Brainfuse Student Assistant
Summer Reading Program
Adventure Begins at Your Library
Please join us at Carnegie Public Library for the summer reading
program (*Adventure Begins at Your Library*). Program starts June 5, 2024 to July 24, 2024 from 10:00 A.M. Program is for children 12 and under. Children must be accompanied with family/adult. For any additional information please call Carnegie Library and inquire with Lori Encinas or Jeff Rudolph(426-3304)
America's News
NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.
Carnegie Public Library Oral History Project with Spanish Speaking Old Timers (MSS 776).
A Collaboration with University of New Mexico Zimmerman Library and City of Las Vegas Carnegie Library. Zimmerman Library converted Carnegie's audio cassette collection of old spanish speaking interviews from longlife residents in Las Vegas, surrounding areas and Northern New Mexico. We are grateful for the collaboration with UNM Zimmerman Library to make these audio interviews accessible online to reach more residents in our area and throughout the state and further.
Special thanks to Samuel Sisneros, archivist at the Center for Southwest Research, Zimmerman Library, UNM, for making this possible.
Carnegie Library will be hosting a book reading for Corey Recko on July 13, 2024 at 11:00 am.
hosting a presentation about the Colfax County War, the subject of my upcoming book, The Colfax County War: Violence and Corruption in Territorial New Mexico (University of North Texas Press, 2024).
The wave of violence known as the Colfax County War started after the assassination of Reverend Franklin Tolby on the Cimarron Canyon road on September 14, 1875. Beginning as a conflict over whether the vast acreage of the Maxwell Land Grant was privately owned or public domain, a group of politicians and lawyers known as the Santa Fe Ring exploited the situation for personal gain. The fight escalated in late 1875 with the assassination of Tolby, an outspoken critic of the Santa Fe Ring. In a confession, one of the assassins stated that men connected to the Ring paid to have Tolby killed. Outrage, civil unrest, and more killings followed. The town of Cimarron alone was the scene of a lynching, a barroom gunfight in the St. James Hotel involving legendary gunman Clay Allison, the nighttime murder of a prisoner, and other murders unrelated to the conflict. Despite the murders and allegations that the Santa Fe Ring was behind the assassination of Tolby, the federal government ignored troubles. Then, in 1878, a letter came to light that appeared to show that the governor of the territory, Samuel Axtell, planned a mass killing of critics of the Santa Fe Ring in Colfax County. That, along with the outbreak of the Lincoln County War, brought the attention of officials in Washington. Frank Angel was sent to New Mexico to investigate the violence, murders, and corruption that plagued the territory. The actions taken as a result of Angel’s investigation ended the Colfax County War.