New Mexico Book League records, 1971-2002.

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New Mexico Book League records, 1971-2002.

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The records of the New Mexico Book League cover the entire period of the group's existence and present its history and activities through a variety of records, organized into the following series: Records and Correspondence, Book Talk, Special Books, Scrapbook, Photographs, and Videotapes. Correspondence files make up the most extensive part of the collection. Further scope and content notes are provided for each series. Issues of the newsletter Book Talk may be found in NMSU Library's circulating collection and in Special Collections.

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New Mexico State University

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