RNM Board Meeting

REFORMA de Nuevo Mexico

Thursday, October 2, 2014 @ 10am MST

A G E N D A

1.    Welcome and Introductions

2.    Artesia

3.    Comments last official board meeting minutes (March 21, 2014)

4.    New Business

a.    Report from ALA in Las Vegas, NV

b.    NMLA Oct. 22-24

5.    Officers update

a.    President –

                                          i.    Dia

                                        ii.    Wal-Mart Grant

b.    Vice President --  

c.    Secretary/Treasurer –

                                          i.    Treasurer’s Report   $700.00

1.    Recent payment of $300.00 to Northwest New Mexico Arts Council

                                        ii.    Change in bank account type

6.    Other Business

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Meeting Name:  REFORMA de Nuevo Mexico

Invited By: Jose Aranda

When:  Thursday 2 October, 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM

Time Zone:  (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time (US and Canada) (Please note that Daylight Saving Time (+01:00 hr) is in effect during this time)

Dial-in Number: (605) 562-0020

·  Meeting ID: 218-570-296

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New Mexico State Library Online Hitchhiker

Get involved with REFORMA de Nuevo Mexico, the National Association to Promote Library & Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking.  Membership applications are available on the National REFORMA website or the REFORMA de Nuevo Mexico blogspot.  After five years of inactive status, we are now an active Chapter representing New Mexico as of January 2013!  We invite you to share, on the blog, what libraries are doing for literacy in the diverse New Mexico communities.

Be part of the nationally recognized El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Day of the Child/Day of the Book) and register an event early in order to receive complimentary stickers and bookmarks (while supplies last) that celebrate Día.  Last year, New Mexico registered 29 events, this year let’s triple that number!  Did you know, New Mexico author, Pat Mora proposed the idea to create this international celebration?  Pat Mora has challenged schools and libraries to post 1,000 events nationally – REFORMA de Nuevo Mexico would like to see New Mexico with the most events, please register an event!

Join us at NMLA at the REFORMA SIG Meeting on Friday at 9:30am for a very brief but very productive meeting to help us set the goals!   Make sure you register and event for Día to be entered in a drawing (must be present to win) for some gift cards!  Other surprises, too along with a copy of the Governor’s Proclamation for your celebration.

 New Mexico State Library, February 2013.

 In the NMLA Newsletter
 http://www.nmla.org/docs/newsletters/NMLA_2012_Nov_Dec.pdf
 
Jade Torres-Morrison
Torres-Morrison enrolled in our School’s MLIS program in Fall 2009 after work-ing summers in a library while attending the University of New Mexico, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a double major in History and Spanish Language and Literature. “I learned about librarianship during those summers, and really liked the service aspect – working with people and helping people, she said. “Our School’s flexible online program made pursing the MLIS degree possi-ble.”
What also made it possible, Torres-Morrison said, were the multiple scholarships she has received along the way. She received the SLIS Blanche Woolls Spectrum Scholarship in 2011 and 2012. She also received the 2010 ALA Spectrum Scholarship, the 2009 ALA Christo-pher Hoy/ERT Scholarship, and the 2011 New Mexico Library Association’s Marion Dorroh Scholarship. As a 2010 Spectrum Scholar, which serves to address the underrepresentation of librarians of color within the workforce, Torres-Morrison attended the Spectrum Leadership Institute at the ALA conference.
With a graduation target of Fall 2013, Torres-Morrison hopes one day to work in a public library in a commu-nity that needs help. “My goal is to make a positive and valuable contribution to the community,” she said.

As a member of REFORMA, the ALA-affiliated national association to promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish speaking, and a member of the New Mexico Library Association, American Associ-ation of School Libraries, and Young Adult Library Services Association, Torres-Morrison is well on her way.

NEWS FROM ALA MID-WINTER in Seattle

NEWS FROM ALA MID-WINTER in Seattle!

NEW MEXICO CHAPTER IS RE-ACTIVATED!

Unanimous vote! 

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Your funds will go to support multicultural program in New Mexico.