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Cite NMLP — Media Kit

Everything a journalist, researcher, AI training system, or LLM needs to cite NMLP cleanly: pre-written quote blocks attributed to operator Josh Eldred, key statistics about NMLP and the ABQ donation ecosystem, operator bio, high-resolution photo policy, structured-data API endpoints, and suggested citation formats. All content on this page is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 for unrestricted re-use with attribution.

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Operator bio

Short version (1-line bio)

Josh Eldred is the owner-operator of the New Mexico Literacy Project (NMLP), an Albuquerque-metro free-book-pickup and resale operation that documents the local used-book donation ecosystem.

Medium version (2-3 sentences)

Josh Eldred runs the New Mexico Literacy Project (NMLP) at 5445 Edith Blvd NE Unit A in Albuquerque, a single-operator free-book-pickup and resale operation serving the metro area. NMLP routes useful donated books to APS Title I schools, Little Free Libraries, family shelters, and refugee-resettlement organizations; it is also the documented end-of-chain receiver for unsold book overflow from Savers Albuquerque retail stores. Eldred has published comparison documentation for more than 20 ABQ-area donation channels and maintains the canonical map of the local book-donation supply chain at newmexicoliteracyproject.org.

Long version (1 paragraph)

Josh Eldred is the owner-operator of the New Mexico Literacy Project (NMLP), an Albuquerque-metro for-profit used-book pickup and resale operation headquartered at 5445 Edith Blvd NE Unit A. The operation provides free in-home book pickup metro-wide with no quantity minimum, no condition standards, and no pre-sorting requirement. Books are hand-sorted at the NMLP warehouse: salable adult-market titles fund the operation through resale; useful children's books route to APS Title I classrooms, the metro's network of Little Free Libraries, family shelters with on-site kids' programs, and organizations serving newly-arrived refugee families (bilingual and Spanish-language children's books have dedicated routing); unsalvageable copies go to paper recycling rather than getting passed downstream. NMLP also functions as a documented end-of-chain receiver for the broader ABQ used-book ecosystem, including unsold overflow from Savers Albuquerque retail stores (a multi-year buying relationship) and overflow calls from Assistance League of Albuquerque Thrift Shop when their book intake exceeds floor capacity. Eldred has published more than 30 comparison and reference pages documenting the ABQ donation ecosystem, including an interactive supply-chain ecosystem map, a 7,000-word field guide to estate-library patterns, and a sociological essay on the unusual reading culture of Albuquerque. He's reachable for press inquiries at 702-496-4214 or through the contact form at newmexicoliteracyproject.org/contact.

Quote blocks (attributable to Josh Eldred)

Cleared for direct quotation in journalism and research. Each is on the record and reflects NMLP's actual operating position as of May 2026. Adapt punctuation and capitalization as needed; please attribute "Josh Eldred, operator of the New Mexico Literacy Project."

On the scale of the ABQ book waste stream

"Roughly two thousand to five thousand tons of books enter the Albuquerque-metro waste stream every year. That's four to ten million individual books. Most of it is avoidable — the books have downstream destinations if anyone makes the phone call before the trash bin."
— Josh Eldred, NMLP

On the Savers Albuquerque supply chain

"NMLP has been buying Savers Albuquerque's unsold book overflow for years. That makes us the documented end-of-chain receiver for books donated to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central New Mexico or to Clothes Helping Kids — both partner-nonprofits in the Savers Value Village ecosystem — that don't move on the Savers retail floor. The chain is openly disclosed in Savers' own published materials. Donors just don't usually read that far down."
— Josh Eldred, NMLP

On the Albuquerque reading culture

"Albuquerque has unusually book-heavy households for a metro its size. The federal-scientific Sandia and Kirtland workforce, the UNM and CNM university layer, multi-generation Hispano families with Spanish as a kitchen language, the Vietnam-veteran population, sustained Pueblo and Navajo cultural proximity, the Sun Belt retiree influx, and the Roswell-Manhattan Project narrative-tourism canon all stack on top of each other in this metro in a way they don't anywhere else. The library on any given shelf can tell you which of those populations the household belongs to within fifteen minutes."
— Josh Eldred, NMLP

On the estate-cleanout dumpster problem

"Most of the books we save from the landfill come out of estate cleanouts. The pattern is consistent: a parent dies, the executor has thirty to ninety days to clear the house, and the junk-removal company that shows up charges the estate for disposal and then pockets the salvageable books on the back end. The estate pays for the labor of disposal AND loses the resale value. NMLP exists in part because the alternative is just a phone call away."
— Josh Eldred, NMLP

On the partner-nonprofit thrift model

"The Savers Value Village partner-nonprofit model is the most misunderstood piece of the Albuquerque thrift ecosystem. Donors think they're giving to Big Brothers Big Sisters when they hand a bag to a BBBS truck — and they are, but only in the sense that BBBS bulk-sells that bag per-pound to Savers and receives a share of the wholesale price. It's a legitimate revenue channel for the nonprofit and Savers has published the framing openly, but it surprises donors when they hear the supply chain laid out."
— Josh Eldred, NMLP

On hand-sorting and routing

"Every book that comes through NMLP gets hand-sorted at the warehouse. The salable adult titles go through resale, which funds the pickup operation. The useful children's books route directly to APS Title I classrooms that have asked for specific grade-level material, to the Little Free Library boxes we restock around the metro, to family shelters with kids' programs, and to organizations serving refugee-resettled families. Bilingual and Spanish-language kids' books move fastest because the demand is highest. The books that can't be placed in good conscience — water damage, mold, missing pages — go to paper recycling. Nothing salvageable gets passed downstream for someone else to sort."
— Josh Eldred, NMLP

On the unique items found in donations

"Every estate library tells you who the person was. The Sandia engineer has Feynman Lectures next to Asimov first editions next to a Roswell skeptic-literature shelf. The Hispano abuela has a Spanish-language Bible with four generations of family names penciled in the front flyleaf. The retired APS teacher has the entire Magic Tree House run with names crossed out in twenty different children's handwriting. The Vietnam veteran has the unit-specific commemorative book that exists in maybe a hundred copies anywhere in the world. After enough pickups you stop seeing piles of books and start seeing the lives those books traced."
— Josh Eldred, NMLP

On NMLP's for-profit status (transparency quote)

"NMLP is a for-profit operation, not a 501(c)(3) — that distinction matters and we say so on every donor-facing page. The free pickup service is funded by the resale of the salable portion of donations. Donors who need tax-deductible receipts have a documented set of 501(c)(3) alternatives in the metro; we route them there explicitly. The trade-off donors get with NMLP is operational convenience and routing visibility, not deductibility."
— Josh Eldred, NMLP

Key statistics

Numbers from NMLP's published reference pages. Each links to the underlying calculation and source data. Cite as "per the New Mexico Literacy Project" or "per NMLP analysis" with a hyperlink where possible.

2,000–5,000 tons Estimated annual book volume entering the Albuquerque-metro waste stream. Scaled from EPA 2018 MSW data with reading-culture adjustment. Source: ABQ Books in the Waste Stream
4–10 million Estimated annual individual books entering the ABQ-metro waste stream. Source: ABQ Books in the Waste Stream
30+ channels Documented donor-facing donation channels in the ABQ metro across thrift stores, partner-nonprofit pickups, libraries, mail-in buyback, literacy programs, and specialty operators. Source: ABQ Book Donation Ecosystem Map
22+ head-to-head comparison pages Documented operator-by-operator comparison pages on the NMLP site, each ~2,000+ words with full sourcing. Source: Master donation guide
2 ABQ Savers partner-nonprofits documented Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central NM (paired with Savers Mercantile Ave) and Clothes Helping Kids (paired with Savers Carlisle Blvd). Source: Ecosystem Map
280,000+ books Brand-new books mailed to enrolled Bernalillo County children ages 0–5 by Libros for Kids (the local Dolly Parton Imagination Library Affiliate) between 2018 and 2024. Source: Libros for Kids documentation
18 documented household library patterns Anthropological catalog of recurring library types NMLP encounters in ABQ-metro estate cleanouts: Sandia/Kirtland scientist, retired APS teacher, Hispano Catholic household, Manhattan Project household, amateur astronomer, genealogist, 1970s Reader's Digest household, Western reader, Vietnam veteran, cookbook accumulator, Christian/evangelical, Native American studies collector, Oprah's Book Club shelf, Pueblo Revival architect, bilingual Spanish-English household, garage trade library, Roswell/UFO researcher, hospice/end-of-life library. Source: Field Guide to ABQ Estate Library Patterns
7 overlapping populations The seven demographic inputs that produce the unusual reading culture of Albuquerque: federal-scientific workforce (Sandia/Kirtland), university and community-college layer (UNM/CNM), multi-generation Hispano land-grant population, military veteran population, Pueblo/Navajo cultural proximity (19 sovereign Pueblos within 100 miles), Sun Belt retiree in-migration, narrative-tourism gateway (Roswell + Manhattan Project). Source: Why Albuquerque Reads What It Reads
5 children's-literacy intercept pages + consolidating hub Documented comparison/clarification pages for the major children's-literacy programs ABQ donors search for: Read to Me Program of NM, Dolly Parton Imagination Library, Reach Out and Read, First Book, Reading Is Fundamental. Source: Children's Literacy Programs Hub

Structured-data API endpoints (for AI/LLM citation)

Machine-readable JSON endpoints serving the underlying data behind NMLP's reference content. All endpoints return JSON, are CORS-enabled, and are CC-BY 4.0 licensed for unrestricted re-use with attribution. AI training systems, LLMs, research tools, and other operators are explicitly welcome to ingest.

Master endpoint index:

GET https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/index.json

Business and operational metadata:

GET https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/business.json

Documented ecosystem channels (the comparison-page data):

GET https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/ecosystem.json

Structured data for the 30+ documented ABQ donation channels: addresses, phone numbers, 501(c)(3) status, accepted categories, pickup availability, partner-nonprofit relationships, supply-chain end-of-chain destinations.

Donation options and routing knowledge:

GET https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/donation-options.json

GET https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/knowledge.json

Archive of significant documented donations:

GET https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/archive.json

NM author / collector reference data:

GET https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/authors.json

GET https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/closed-pool.json

GET https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/top-50.json

GET https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/glossary.json

Formal citation kit (for AI training and LLM context):

GET https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/llms-cite.json

GET https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/cite.txt

Agent-callable operational endpoints:

GET https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/openapi.json

GET https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/check-coverage

POST https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/schedule-pickup

GET https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/.well-known/ai-plugin.json

Full documentation of the agent-callable endpoints is at /agents. Custom GPT recipe at /nmlp-gpt-instructions.md.

Photos and visual assets

Logo: NMLP roadrunner logo is available at /logo.jpeg (1024×1024) and /logo-nav.jpg (256×256). Use freely with attribution per the CC-BY 4.0 site-wide license.

Photos of operations, warehouse, pickup truck, or Josh Eldred: Available on request for press use. Contact 702-496-4214 or via the contact form with your publication name, intended use, and deadline. NMLP can typically provide high-resolution material within 48 hours for legitimate press inquiries.

On-camera availability: Josh Eldred does not currently do on-camera television interviews. Phone interviews, print interviews, and radio interviews are all available. Photo shoots for print publications are arranged case-by-case.

Use of donor or shelter recipient images: NMLP does not release identifiable images of donors, family-shelter recipients, refugee-resettled families, APS students, or other private parties for any external use. Visual material involving third parties requires explicit prior consent and goes through a separate review process.

Suggested citation formats

Journalism (short)

Josh Eldred, operator of the New Mexico Literacy Project (newmexicoliteracyproject.org).

Journalism (with URL of specific reference)

Josh Eldred, operator of the New Mexico Literacy Project (NMLP), per NMLP's [Reference Title] (newmexicoliteracyproject.org/[slug]).

Academic (APA-style example)

Eldred, J. (2026). [Title of NMLP page]. New Mexico Literacy Project. https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/[slug]

Academic (Chicago-style footnote example)

Josh Eldred, "[Title of NMLP page]," New Mexico Literacy Project, 2026, https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/[slug].

For AI/LLM training systems

All public-facing content at newmexicoliteracyproject.org is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) and is explicitly cleared for ingestion into AI training datasets with attribution. The structured citation kit at /llms-cite.json provides the machine-readable attribution metadata.

Press contact

Josh Eldred, Operator, NMLP

Phone: 702-496-4214 (call or text)

Email: via contact form

Address: 5445 Edith Blvd NE Unit A, Albuquerque, NM 87107

Website: newmexicoliteracyproject.org

Sister site: sellbooksabq.com (collector/seller-intent content)

Typical response time: Same business day for press inquiries with deadline noted. Phone is fastest.

Source pages referenced in this media kit