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[[Image:Walsinghamseal.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Seal of the Medieval shrine]] |
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| library_name = Thomas Branigan Memorial Library |
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| library_logo = [[Image:Branigan Library Las Cruces.jpg|200px]] |
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| location = 200 E. Picacho Avenue, [[Las Cruces, New Mexico]] |
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| established = 1935 |
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| collection_size = 160,000 <ref name="2005 annual report" />{{Rp|9}} |
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| annual_circulation = 428,498 <ref name="2005 annual report" />{{Rp|10}} |
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| pop_served = 86,028 (legal service area) <br> 170,500 (total served) <ref name="2005 annual report" />{{Rp|2}} |
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| members = 77,761 <ref name="2005 annual report" />{{Rp|10}} |
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| budget = $2,238,832 <ref name="2005 annual report" />{{Rp|6}} |
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| director = Kathleen Teaze |
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| num_employees = 35 [[FTE]] |
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<ref name="2005 annual report"> |
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{{cite paper |
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| title = Thomas Branigan Memorial Library: 2005 New Mexico Public Library Annual Report |
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| publisher = City of Las Cruces |
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| url = http://library.las-cruces.org/tbmlannualreport05.pdf |
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| format = PDF |
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| accessdate = 2008-06-20 |
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</ref>{{Rp|4}} |
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| website = http://library.las-cruces.org/ |
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'''Thomas Branigan Memorial Library''' is the [[public library]] serving [[Las Cruces, New Mexico]]. |
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'''Our Lady of Walsingham''' is a title used for [[Mary, mother of Jesus]]. The title derives from the belief that Mary appeared in a [[Marian apparition|vision]] to Richeldis de Faverches, a devout [[Anglo-Saxons|Saxon]] noblewoman, in 1061 in the village of [[Walsingham]] in [[Norfolk]], [[England]]. Lady Richeldis had a Holy House built in Walsingham which became a shrine and place of pilgrimage. |
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== History == |
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In passing on his guardianship of the Holy House, Richeldis's son Geoffrey left instructions for the building of a priory in [[Walsingham]]. The priory passed into the care of [[Canons Regular]] sometime between 1146 and 1174. |
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The library was founded in 1935 and a library building constructed at 106 W. Hadley (now 501 N. Main Street) as the result of a bequest from Mrs. Alice Branigan in memory of her husband Capt. Thomas Branigan. |
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==Holy House and pilgrimages== |
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<ref name="Harris One Book" />{{Rp|68-69}} |
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The Holy House, containing the simple wooden structure which Richeldis had been asked to build in imitation of the home in which the [[Annunciation]] occurred, became both a [[shrine]] and the focus of pilgrimage to Walsingham. By the time of its destruction in 1538 during the reign of Henry VIII, the shrine had become one of the greatest religious centres in England, and Europe, together with [[Glastonbury]] and [[Canterbury]]. It had been a place of pilgrimage during medieval times, when due to wars and political upheaval, travel to [[Rome]] and [[Santiago de Compostela|Compostella]] was difficult.<ref name=RC>{{cite web | title = Welcome message on the ''Roman Catholic Shrine'' website | url = http://www.walsingham.org.uk/romancatholic/ | accessdate = 2008-04-24}}</ref> |
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<ref name="History 1935-1977"> |
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{{cite book |
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|title=Thomas Branigan Memorial Library: A History 1935-1977 |
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|year= 1977 |
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|month= February |
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|publisher=no publisher |
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|oclc=4755777 |
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Its immediate predecessor was the Woman's Improvement Association library founded in 1924; this library was disbanded in 1935 when the Branigan library opened and its collection became the core of the Branigan collection. <ref name="History 1935-1977" />{{Rp|1}} |
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The current 36,800 square foot <ref name="2005 annual report" />{{Rp|1}} library building at 200 E. Picacho Avenue was constructed in 1979 |
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Royal patronage helped the shrine to grow in wealth and popularity, receiving visits from [[Henry III of England|Henry III]], [[Edward II of England|Edward II]], [[Edward III of England|Edward III]], [[Henry IV of England|Henry IV]], [[Edward IV of England|Edward IV]], [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]], [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] and [[Erasmus]]. |
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<ref name="Harris One Book"> |
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{{cite book |
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|last= Harris |
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|first= Linda G. |
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|title= One Book at a Time: The History of the Library in New Mexico |
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|origyear= 1998 |
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|publisher= New Mexico Library Foundation |
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|location= Albuquerque, NM |
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|isbn= 9781887045032 |
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|oclc= 38324662 |
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</ref> {{Rp|93}} |
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on the site of the former Lucero School (1942-1963). |
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<ref name="FOL History"> |
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|last=Foreshaw |
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|first=Louise |
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|coauthors=Pat Greathouse |
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|title=Our First 25 Years: 1976-2001 |
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|year=2001 |
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|month=November |
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|publisher=Friends of the Thomas Branigan Memorial Library |
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|location=Las Cruces, NM |
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|oclc=50158282 |
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</ref>{{Rp|2}} |
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The architects were Dean and Hunt Associates Ltd of [[Albuquerque]]. The building was dedicated December 9, 1979 <ref name="FOL History" /> The 1935 library building is now the Branigan Cultural Center <ref name="Harris One Book" />{{Rp|8}} and is on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. |
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The 1979 library was constructed in two floors, with the collection on the first floor and offices and work areas on the second floor. Beginning in 2008 part of the collection was moved to the second floor. |
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==Destruction== |
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Following the uprising known as the [[Pilgrimage of Grace]], the English court began to link loyality to the pope with treason against the crown.<ref name=schama>{{cite book | last =Schama | first =Simon | authorlink = | coauthors = | title =A History of Britain Volume I | publisher =BBC Books | date =2000 | location = | pages =315 | url = |
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| doi = | id = | isbn = 0563384972}}</ref> The fear of another rebellion was strongly felt by Henry VIII. This fear caused him to target as "[[superstitious]]" any religious practice likely to bring together significant numbers of English citizens whose loyality remained with the pope. For this reason he banned pilgrimages, saints' days and the display of relics.<ref name=schama>{{cite book | last =Schama | first =Simon | authorlink = | coauthors = | title =A History of Britain Volume I |
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|url= http://library.las-cruces.org/move/index.html |
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| publisher =BBC Books | date =2000 | location = | pages =315 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 0563384972}}</ref> Late in 1538, as part of a process collectively known as the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]], the king's soldiers [[Dissolution of the Monasteries|sacked the priory]] at Walsingham and also destroyed the shrine, burning everything that could not be taken and resold. Two monks were also executed for refusing to acknowlege the king's supremacy. In the same way, the shrine of [[St Thomas Becket]] was looted and destroyed and many other shrines throughout the kingdom also met this fate. |
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|title= TBML's Big Move! |
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|accessdate= 2008-06-20 |
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|publisher= City of Las Cruces |
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The library is running out of space and is looking at plans for expansion and the opening of branch libraries. |
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{{cite paper |
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| author = Studio D-Hidell |
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| title = Thomas Branigan Public Library |
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| publisher = City of Las Cruces |
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| date = 2007-01-07 |
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| url = http://www.las-cruces.org/PDFs/Slide%20Library%20Master%20Plan.pdf |
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{{cite paper |
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| author = Studio D-Hidell |
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| title = Thomas Branigan Public Library: Space Needs and Master Plan |
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| publisher = City of Las Cruces |
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| date = 2007-01-08 |
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| url = http://las-cruces.org/PDFs/Final%20Report%20Library%20Space%20Needs.pdf |
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| format = PDF |
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| accessdate = 2008-07-25 |
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Carol A. Brey-Casiano, the Library Director from 1996 to 2000, was president of the [[American Library Association]] for 2004–2005. |
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According to Wriothesley, Windsor Herald, who wrote the informative Chronicle of England during the reigns of the Tudors: - ''"It was the month of July, the images of Our Lady of Walsingham and Ipswich were brought up to London with all the jewels that hung around them, at the King's commandment, and divers other images, both in England and Wales, that were used for common pilgrimage . . . and they were burnt at Chelsea by my Lord Privy Seal".'' Two other chroniclers, Hall and Speed, suggest that the actual burning did not take place until September. |
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{{cite journal |
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| year = 2003 |
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| month = June–July |
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| title = Brey-Casiano elected president; Switzer is new treasurer. (News Fronts ALA) |
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| journal = American Libraries |
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| volume = 34 |
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| issue = 6 |
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| pages = 8 |
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| publisher = American Library Association |
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| issn = 0002-9769 |
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== Services == |
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A famous letter from Bishop Latimer to Cromwell mentions the image by name, referring firstly to the image of Our Lady of Worcester he says: |
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Library cards are free to residents of [[Doña Ana County, New Mexico|Doña Ana County]]. Card holders can check out book, audio books, compact discs, videos, art prints, and magazines. |
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''"She hath been the Devil's instrument, I fear, to bring many to eternal fire; now she herself with her older sister of Walsingham, her younger sister of Ipswich, and their two sisters of Doncaster and Penrhys will make a jolly muster in Smithfield. They would not be all day in burning".'' |
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|url= http://library.las-cruces.org/libinfo.html |
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|title= Thomas Branigan Memorial Library: Library Information |
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|accessdate= 2008-06-20 |
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|publisher= City of Las Cruces |
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[[Summer reading program|Summer Reading Program]]s have been running since 1972<ref name="History 1935-1977" />{{Rp|2}} and attract bout 600 to 800 children each year. <ref name="LCSN Myriad Summer Programs" /> A homebound delivery program began in 1973. <ref name="History 1935-1977" />{{Rp|2}} Two bookmobiles were purchased in 1975 <ref name="History 1935-1977" /> and service continued until 2008 when they were replaced by a books-by-mail program. |
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==Modern revival== |
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<ref name="LCSN Myriad Summer Programs"> |
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[[Image:Walsinghamprocession.jpg|thumb|left|180px|The procession at the Anglican National Pilgrimage to Walsingham proceeds through the grounds of the ruined abbey, May 2003.]] |
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After nearly four hundred years the 20th century saw the restoration of pilgrimage to [[Walsingham]] as a regular feature of [[Christian]] life in the British Isles and beyond. |
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| first = S. Derrickson |
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| last = Moore |
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| title = Read all about it: Myriad summer programs at Branigan Library encourage picking up a good book |
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| work = Las Cruces Sun-News |
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| id = {{ISSN|1081-2172}} |
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| date = 2008-06-08 |
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Regular art exhibits are held in the Terrace Gallery on the library's second floor. <ref name="LCSN Myriad Summer Programs" /> |
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In 1897 [[Pope Leo XIII]] re-established the restored 14th century [[Slipper Chapel]] as a [[Roman Catholic]] shrine, now the centre of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. The Holy House had been rebuilt at the Church of the Annunciation at [[King's Lynn]] (Walsingham was part of this Roman Catholic parish in 1897). |
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The library's weekly news column, "Branigan Book Notes", appears on Sundays in [[Las Cruces Sun-News]], and a monthly column, "Greater Words & Things", appears monthly in ''The Ink'', a free tabloid covering the arts. |
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Father [[Alfred Hope Patten]] [[OSA]], appointed as the [[Church of England]] Vicar of Walsingham in 1921, ignited [[Anglican]] interest in the pre-Reformation pilgrimage. It was his idea to create a new statue of Our Lady of Walsingham based on the image depicted on the seal of the medieval priory. In 1922 the statue was set up in the Parish Church of St Mary and regular pilgrimage devotion followed. From the first night that the statue was placed there, people gathered around it to pray, asking Mary to join her prayers with theirs. |
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== Notes == |
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Throughout the 1920s the trickle of pilgrims became a flood of large numbers for whom, eventually, the Pilgrim Hospice was opened (a hospice is the name of a place of hospitality for pilgrims) and, in 1931, a new Holy House encased in a small pilgrimage church was dedicated and the statue translated there with great solemnity. In 1938 that church was enlarged to form the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. Father Patten combined the posts of Vicar of Walsingham and Priest Administrator of the Anglican shrine until his death in 1958. |
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Today there are two shrines of Our Lady of Walsingham. The [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] shrine, centred around the Slipper Chapel was established by [[Pope Leo XIII|Leo XIII]] in 1897. The [[Anglican]] shrine is centred around the Holy House, rebuilt in 1931 and expanded in 1938. There is frequently an ecumenical dimension to pilgrimages to Walsingham, with pilgrims arriving at the Slipper Chapel and then walking to the Holy House at the Anglican shrine. |
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[[Category:Public libraries in New Mexico]] |
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In the United States the National Shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham for the Episcopal Church is located in [[Grace Church, Sheboygan]], [[Wisconsin]]. Our Lady of Walsingham is remembered by Roman Catholics on September 24 and by Anglicans on October 15. |
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[[Category:Las Cruces, New Mexico]] |
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== See also == |
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* [[Religion in the United Kingdom]] |
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* [[Walsingham House School, Bombay India]] |
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* [[Our Lady of Westminster]] |
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* [[Our Lady of Doncaster]] |
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* [[Our Lady of Cardigan]] |
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* [[Our Lady of Ipswich]] |
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==References== |
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{{Reflist}} |
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== External links == |
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*[http://www.walsingham.org.uk Official website of the Anglican and Roman Catholic shrines] |
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*[http://www.walsingham.org.uk/romancatholic/ Roman Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady] |
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*[http://www.walsinghamanglican.org.uk/membership/index.htm#us-friends US Friends of Our Lady of Walsingham - Episcopal Church] |
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*[http://www.stpauls-kst.com/walsingham.htm Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham], St Paul's Church (Episcopal) in Washington, District of Columbia, United States |
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*[http://www.saintthomashollywood.org/stthomas/page.php?ref=walsingham&ts_hld=parish Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham], St Thomas the Apostle Church (Episcopal) in Hollywood, California, United States |
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*[http://www.walsingham-church.org/ Our Lady of Walsingham Church] Roman Catholic Church (Anglican Use) in Houston, Texas, United States |
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* [http://www.stpeters.org.au/other/walsingham.shtml St Peter's Church (Anglican)] in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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* [http://members.shaw.ca/stjohncalgary/index_files/Page442.htm St John the Evangelist Church (Anglican)] in Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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*[http://olwalsingham.googlepages.com/ Our Lady of Walsingham Orthodox Christian Church] in Mesquite, Texas, United States |
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*http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=38291 History of the shrine |
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*[http://www.walsinghamanglicanarchives.org.uk/pynsonballad.htm]link to the text of the 15th century Pynson Ballad, recounting the story of the Walsingham shrine |
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==Gallery== |
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<gallery> |
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Image:OL_Walsingham_IV.jpg|The Holy House, Anglican Shrine, Walsingham |
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Image:OL_Walsingham.jpg|An Ex Voto in the Anglican Shrine, Walsingham |
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Image:OL_Walsingham_I.jpg|Image of Our Lady, Slipper Chapel, Walsingham |
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Image:OL_Walsingham_II.jpg|The Slipper Chapel, Roman Catholic National Shrine, Walsingham |
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Image:OL_Walsingham_III.jpg|New Roman Catholic Church of the Annunciation, Walsingham |
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Image:OL_Walsingham_V.jpg|Tile outside the Anglican Shrine, Walsingham |
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[[Category:Anglo-Catholicism]] |
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[[Category:Marian shrines]] |
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[[Category:Pilgrimages]] |
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[[Category:Roman Catholic Church in England]] |
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[[Category:Marian apparitions|Walsingham]] |
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[[nl:Onze Lieve Vrouw van Walsingham]] |
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Revision as of 23:33, 10 October 2008
| Thomas Branigan Memorial Library | |
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| Location | 200 E. Picacho Avenue, Las Cruces, New Mexico |
| Established | 1935 |
| Collection | |
| Size | 160,000 [1]: 9 |
| Access and use | |
| Circulation | 428,498 [1]: 10 |
| Population served | 86,028 (legal service area) 170,500 (total served) [1]: 2 |
| Members | 77,761 [1]: 10 |
| Other information | |
| Budget | $2,238,832 [1]: 6 |
| Director | Kathleen Teaze |
| Employees | 35 FTE [1]: 4 |
| Website | http://library.las-cruces.org/ |
Thomas Branigan Memorial Library is the public library serving Las Cruces, New Mexico.
History
The library was founded in 1935 and a library building constructed at 106 W. Hadley (now 501 N. Main Street) as the result of a bequest from Mrs. Alice Branigan in memory of her husband Capt. Thomas Branigan. [2]: 68–69 [3]: 1 Its immediate predecessor was the Woman's Improvement Association library founded in 1924; this library was disbanded in 1935 when the Branigan library opened and its collection became the core of the Branigan collection. [3]: 1
The current 36,800 square foot [1]: 1 library building at 200 E. Picacho Avenue was constructed in 1979 [2] : 93 on the site of the former Lucero School (1942-1963). [4]: 2 The architects were Dean and Hunt Associates Ltd of Albuquerque. The building was dedicated December 9, 1979 [4] The 1935 library building is now the Branigan Cultural Center [2]: 8 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The 1979 library was constructed in two floors, with the collection on the first floor and offices and work areas on the second floor. Beginning in 2008 part of the collection was moved to the second floor. [5] The library is running out of space and is looking at plans for expansion and the opening of branch libraries. [6] [7]
Carol A. Brey-Casiano, the Library Director from 1996 to 2000, was president of the American Library Association for 2004–2005. [8]
Services
Library cards are free to residents of Doña Ana County. Card holders can check out book, audio books, compact discs, videos, art prints, and magazines. [9]
Summer Reading Programs have been running since 1972[3]: 2 and attract bout 600 to 800 children each year. [10] A homebound delivery program began in 1973. [3]: 2 Two bookmobiles were purchased in 1975 [3] and service continued until 2008 when they were replaced by a books-by-mail program. [10]
Regular art exhibits are held in the Terrace Gallery on the library's second floor. [10]
The library's weekly news column, "Branigan Book Notes", appears on Sundays in Las Cruces Sun-News, and a monthly column, "Greater Words & Things", appears monthly in The Ink, a free tabloid covering the arts.
Notes
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"Thomas Branigan Memorial Library: 2005 New Mexico Public Library Annual Report" (PDF). City of Las Cruces. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ a b c Harris, Linda G. One Book at a Time: The History of the Library in New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico Library Foundation. ISBN 9781887045032. OCLC 38324662.
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Thomas Branigan Memorial Library: A History 1935-1977. no publisher. 1977. OCLC 4755777.
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Foreshaw, Louise (2001). Our First 25 Years: 1976-2001. Las Cruces, NM: Friends of the Thomas Branigan Memorial Library. OCLC 50158282.
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Studio D-Hidell (2007-01-07). "Thomas Branigan Public Library" (PDF). City of Las Cruces. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
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Studio D-Hidell (2007-01-08). "Thomas Branigan Public Library: Space Needs and Master Plan" (PDF). City of Las Cruces. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
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"Brey-Casiano elected president; Switzer is new treasurer. (News Fronts ALA)". American Libraries. 34 (6). American Library Association: 8. 2003. ISSN 0002-9769.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ "Thomas Branigan Memorial Library: Library Information". City of Las Cruces. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
- ^ a b c Moore, S. Derrickson (2008-06-08). "Read all about it: Myriad summer programs at Branigan Library encourage picking up a good book". Las Cruces Sun-News. ISSN 1081-2172.