Navajo Nation Library

Yá’át’ééh Ya'iishjááshchilí! Come join us at the Main Library in Window Rock, AZ to be part of our Summer Reading Program! High res available on our website: navajolibrary.org

Yá’át’ééh Wóózhchʼį́į́d! Join us in March!

🚨 Indiscriminate staffing cuts threaten the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS)—a vital agency supporting museums & libraries, including those preserving Native histories. Contact Congress today & urge them to protect IMLS! 🔗 congressweb.com/AAM/92/ #ProtectIMLS

CONGRATULATIONS TO SPEAKER CURLEY ON RE-ELECTION Today, during the first day of the 2025 Winter Session, the 25th Navajo Nation Council elected Crystalyne Curley, once again, to serve as Speaker for the next two years. Your oath obligates you to serve the Navajo people through the legislative body, and I am eager to collaborate with you during this term. As Speaker and President, we both have two years remaining in our terms. It is imperative that we work together to ensure access to basic water, power, and electricity for our communities. Our constituents elected us to serve them, and addressing these urgent needs must be our top priority. As we move into 2025, I encourage both of us to hold each other accountable, alongside Chief Justice Jayne. The three-branch government provides essential checks and balances, enabling us to achieve significant goals for our people. Speaker Curley’s election followed three rounds of runoff, demonstrating the confidence the council has in your leadership. I look forward to working with the entire Navajo Nation Council on our progress and urge everyone to roll up their sleeves and pass the budget. Congratulations again, Speaker Curley on your re-election! -Navajo Nation President Dr. Buu Nygren

Yá’át’ééh everyone, we are looking for a Programs and Projects position at the Main Library in Window Rock, AZ. The job ad will close on February 7, 2025. For more information about the position and how to apply, please go to: apply.navajo-nsn.gov/jobs/DODE04486…

PRESIDENT NYGREN SIGNS GRANT TO SUPPORT TORREON LIBRARY TO FUND NEW BOOKS, ACTIVITIES, AND FURNITURE In a push to inspire other Chapters on the reservation to open libraries, the Navajo Nation Library and Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren are working together to secure funding for Torreon Library. On December 9, President Nygren signed a grant for $15,363.84 from the New Mexico Rural Library Program fund for the library in Torreon, N.M. which is also a new branch to the Navajo Nation Library. Home to about 200 people, Torreon lacks activities for both youth and elders, and Torreon Library Director Martina Martinez believes that improving the library with the grant could bring positive change. “There aren't a lot of places out here because there’s no community centers or youth centers or things like that,” said Martinez. “The library would be a place where we could do those things.” A faculty member at Navajo Technical University has been donating textbooks to the library for students in need. Martinez aims to expand partnerships like that with NTU with other colleges and programs to bring more resources to youth and elders in Torreon and get new furniture and funding full-time employees. With help of Navajo Nation Library funding the library and President Nygren signing of the grant, they are operating at 36 hours a week. “The great hope is that we can set up a library at every chapter,” said Donovan Pete, Navajo Nation Library Director. “There has been a shift I’ve been doing with the Navajo Nation Library and instead of being a place of books, it’s a community hub.” Pete said the Torreon library has not been fully operating for five to six years and decided to tackle the challenge of getting even more library branches with the Navajo Nation library. “The unique thing with tribal libraries is that there isn’t a curriculum, there isn’t anyone trying tell us how we need to act,” said Pete. “So for us, a lot of what we try to do is trying to focus on Diné k’éechi (the Navajo way) and do a lot with language and culture.”

Yá'át'ééh everyone! Join us this month at the Library! Full free calendar will be available to print on our website: navajolibrary.org

Yá’át’ééh abiní everyone! Join us this Niłch’itsoh 2024, whether its hearing children’s books read in Diné Bizaad, watching Ma’ii Bahané, or attending a reading from Stanley Milford, Jr., author of The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained.

Join us this Native American Heritage Month at the Main Library in Window Rock, AZ!

We want to say ahé’héé’ ntsáagóó’ to our wonderful visitors from Kyrgyzstan! They hand-delivered 5 books that cross compares Kyrgyz and Diné cultures and languages written in their language. Ahé’héé’ to the Navajo Nation Washington Office for setting up this wonderful exchange!

Ya'at'eeh everyone, we are extremely excited to welcome back Ramona Emerson to the Navajo Nation Library on Thursday, November 21st from 5:30 - 7 pm in Window Rock, AZ! Mark your calendars and let's hear from Ramona! Books available for giveaways and refreshments will be served!

Don't forget to join us for Halloween Week next week at the Main Library in Window Rock, AZ!

If you missed Rhiannon Koehler's virtual program earlier this week, don't worry, we've made her #JournalofArizonaHistory article FREE on Project MUSE. ➡️➡️muse.jhu.edu/pub/325/articl…

Yá'át'ééh eveyrone, we are extremely delighted to announce Halloween Week at the Library! We will be hosting a Pumpkin Carving Contest, Haunted House, and Books'N'Treats event at the Main Library starting 10/28/24 - 10/31/24! Join us for Halloween Week at the Library!

Yá’át’ééh everyone, the Main Library in Window Rock, AZ will be closed Friday, September 20th to join our department for an end-of-the-year staff appreciation cook-out. Join us tomorrow at 5:30 PM for an Author Reading & Visit w/ Dr. Farina King, Diné Scholar, Author & Professor.

Yá'át'ééh everyone, please join us on Friday, September 20th from 5:30 pm - 7 pm, as we welcome Dr. Farina King to the Main Library! She will be reading from her book: The Earth Memory Compass. Join us! Books available for giveaway!

Yáʼátʼééh everyone, all Navajo Nation Library locations (Window Rock, Kayenta, and Torreon) will be CLOSED on Monday, September 2nd. We will return to regular hours on Tuesday, September 3rd at 8 am.

Yá’át’ééh everyone, join us this week (August 26th - 30th) at the Main Library! We will have a Hózhó Yoga at the Library from 12 pm - 1 pm on Wed., Aug. 28th, and a reading & performance from the Aspen Song Kids of Taos Pueblo on Fri., Aug. 30th; 10 am - 4 pm. Join us!

Join us tomorrow from 10 am - 12 pm!

Ya'at'eeh everyone, join us Friday, August 30th from 10 am - 4 pm. Aspen Song Kids of Taos Pueblo will join us at the Main Library in Window Rock, AZ. As part of the Sacred Spiral Book Tour, they will read excerpts and share the symbolism woven into their movements.