President’s Day Holiday Closure

The Octavia Fellin Public Library will be closed on Monday, February 21st in observance of President’s Day.

OCTAVIA FELLIN PUBLIC LIBRARY CLOSED
President’s DAY OBSERVANCE
MONDAY, February 21st, 2022

During that time, OFPL’s online services, as always, will be available at ofpl.online featuring downloadable magazines, e-books, audiobooks, streaming movies, virtual programs, and many other resources.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Book Signing with Author

Visiting Author: Jeffrey Hass

Join us at the Main Library on Saturday, February 8th at 4:30 p.m., for a book signing and discussion of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas.

Discover Haas’s personal account of how he and People’s Law Office partner Flint Taylor pursued Hampton’s assassins, ultimately prevailing over unlimited government resources and FBI conspiracy.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

Virtual Reality Film Screening

Ways of Knowing

OFPL, El Morro Theatre, and Bombshelltoe proudly presents on Friday, September 6th at El Morro Events Center from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. A Navajo Nuclear Histories Project with Sunny Dooley, Tina Garnanez, Tommy Rock, Janene Yazzie, Bobby Leonard Mason, and Arnold Clifford. Ways of Knowing is a multimedia project about Navajo Nation’s health and tradition through its enduring and traumatic encounter with uranium mining.

This history began in the 1940s, as the U.S. government’s need to sustain its nascent nuclear weapons program became a top national security priority. After perfecting nuclear weapons technology under the Manhattan Project, the United States could no longer depend on the Belgian Congo and Canada for uranium; the supply had to be closer to home.

Uranium mining for weapons production started in the western region of Navajo Country – in the stunning crimson sandstones of the Colorado Plateau – under the auspices of the Vanadium Corporation of America as “sale of carnotite and other related materials” to preserve secrecy.

Produced by: Lovely Umayam, Adriel Luis & Sunny Dooley
Directed, shot, and edited by: Kayla Briët
Still photography by: Carmille Garcia
Navajo Nation, USA

Year Release: 2019
Duration: 17 min 03 sec
Format: 360 film, color