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Library Stories: Books on the Backroads

Library Stories: Books on the Backroads

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Library Stories: Books on the Backroads

2023

0h 56m

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Library Stories: Books on the Backroads is a film about New Mexico's rural libraries. It’s about villages and Pueblo communities, their histories and their people, where their libraries are, and what their libraries mean. Rural people across our country know their libraries are essential to the educational and social fabric of their communities.

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