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About the King Reading Room
The vision for the King Reading Room includes using it to provide both public display space for photographs and memorabilia as well as meeting space for special events. To build the Reading Room, the Law Library contracted with the UNM Remodeling Department to undertake the design and construction work, and to serve as the general contractor for the project. In August of 2005, demolition of 1,000 sq. ft. of highly visible space inside the Law Library began in earnest.
The Reading Room offers walls of lighted display cabinets and storage cabinets, a serving area, a conference table and seating for 20, an intimate seating area for smaller meetings, built in computer and audio-visual projection equipment and wireless Internet broadcasting. The Reading Room is decorated in a Western motif and boasts 12 ft. ceilings covered with massive wooden beams in a wagon-wheel pattern highlighted by a rustic chandelier.
The Reading Room displays numerous photographs of Gov. King taken during his years of service in the House and Executive Office, as well as a hand-carved Seal of the State of New Mexico. Additional installations of memorabilia and artifacts from the King years are planned for the future.
