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NMLP at a glance

Year-to-date counters, current pickup window, and recent archive activity. Updated regularly; last update timestamp shown.

Service status: Pickups scheduling normally. Phone and text active.

Year-to-date counters

25+ tons
Books & media handled

Aggregate intake from pickups, drop box, Savers overflow recovery, Assistance League overflow, and Master Fibers salvage recovery.

300+
Pickups completed

Includes documented 5,000-pound single pickup in Socorro, May 9 2026.

85+
Cities & communities served

74 city-specific landing pages live; many additional small communities reached on a volume-justified basis.

31
Archive entries published

Regionally significant New Mexico and Southwest books documented with bibliographic detail, photographs, scholarly references.

< 5%
Landfill rate

Routing breakdown published in the Transparency Report. More than 95% of intake reaches resale, literacy destinations, or paper recycling.

16
Open-data endpoints

Public CC-BY-4.0 JSON, GeoJSON, MARC, and OpenAPI endpoints at /data.

The custody dataset, 2021–2026

Every barcoded item that crosses the sorting table gets scanned by hand before it’s routed. Five years of those scans are a public, auditable record of what actually moves through this operation — the homepage number links straight here.

447,734
Items scanned & routed

July 2021 – July 2026: 352,551 books, 53,077 DVDs, 39,924 music discs and tapes, 2,182 video games.

253,377
Distinct titles handled

Unique editions identified across the scan record — the same corpus that feeds the first-edition reference.

19,516
Pickup-route miles

2,371 logged business drives across the Albuquerque metro since 2022.

Weight, stated honestly. At category-average weights, the scanned items alone come to roughly 340,000–380,000 pounds. But barcode scanners never see a large share of the stream — pre-ISBN and no-barcode books, magazines, encyclopedias, vinyl, and camera equipment. Counting that material at conservative rates, the running total clears 450,000 pounds, and on ordinary assumptions it passes the half-million mark. The scan count above is exact; the poundage is an estimate with the method shown — that’s the difference between what we headline and what we hedge. Counts refresh as data syncs land.

Current pickup window

Pickup scheduling: open

Core metro pickups scheduling within 24-48 hours. Extended-tier pickups 3-7 days. Call or text 505-250-3804 to start the conversation.

Recent archive additions

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Mata Ortiz Pottery Trio

Laurentian Pure Wool Blanket

Chas. T. Wilt Chicago Flat-Top Steamer Trunk

Pershing's Mission in Mexico — Haldeen Braddy SIGNED

Healing Herbs of the Upper Rio Grande

The Devil's Highway

Full archive directory (31 entries) →

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