NEW MEXICO CHAPTER IS RE-ACTIVATED!
Unanimous vote!
Join REFORMA http://www.reforma.org/assoc_subscribe.asp
Your funds will go to support multicultural program in New Mexico.
Sunday, January 27, 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.
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!
Join REFORMA http://www.reforma.org/assoc_subscribe.asp
Your funds will go to support multicultural program in New Mexico.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
www.patmora.com
Purchase a copy of The Beautiful Lady, Our Lady of Guadalupe for everyone in your family for Christmas!
Thank you Pat Mora, for the beautiful book available in bookstores and in time for the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe!
Available at the Farmington Public Library for checkout.
Purchase a copy of The Beautiful Lady, Our Lady of Guadalupe for everyone in your family for Christmas!
Thank you Pat Mora, for the beautiful book available in bookstores and in time for the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe!
Available at the Farmington Public Library for checkout.
12.12.12
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
2012 Estela & Raúl Mora Award
Congratulations to the winner of the 2012 Estela & Raúl Mora Award:
Lynden Public
Library, Whatcom County Library System, Lynden WA!
For the first time, we are also awarding three Mora Honor Awards:
DC Public Library/Mount Pleasant, DC., King County Library, WA; and Sacramento Public Library, CA. Congratulations to these libraries and to all who submitted award applications. It’s exciting to see how these awards are growing and how the Día work is deepening to involve community members as literacy leaders.
For the first time, we are also awarding three Mora Honor Awards:
DC Public Library/Mount Pleasant, DC., King County Library, WA; and Sacramento Public Library, CA. Congratulations to these libraries and to all who submitted award applications. It’s exciting to see how these awards are growing and how the Día work is deepening to involve community members as literacy leaders.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Estela and Raul Mora Award 2012
Estela and Raul Mora Award 2012
REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-speaking, invites applications for the 2012 Mora Award. The Award is presented annually to the most exemplary culminating celebrations of El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day), or El día de los jovenes/ El día de los libros (Youth Day/Book Day), also known as Día. Annual, culminating celebrations are held across the country on or near April 30. Libraries, schools and other educational institutions that plan and implement Día programs in 2012 are eligible to submit an application by August 15, 2012.The Estela and Raúl Mora Award was established by author and poet Pat Mora and her siblings in honor of their parents and to promote El día de los niños/El día de los libros. The Mora Award consists of a $1,000 stipend and a plaque to be displayed in a public area by the winning institution(s).
REFORMA is Día’s founding partner and its members serve as judges for the Award. Pat Mora and REFORMA believe Día is a daily commitment to link all children to books, languages and cultures. Annual, culminating celebrations are held across the country on or near April 30. Día is now housed at the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Bloguitos
http://www.losbloguitos.com/
Los Bloguitos es un blog para niños y niñas que hablan y leen español. Encontrarás cuentos, poesías, adivinanzas, dibujos y mucho más. Conoce a los creadores de los bloguitos:
Los Bloguitos es un blog para niños y niñas que hablan y leen español. Encontrarás cuentos, poesías, adivinanzas, dibujos y mucho más. Conoce a los creadores de los bloguitos:
Saturday, July 21, 2012
NM LULAC mourns the loss of one of its prominent leaders, civil rights and veteran advocates
NM LULAC mourns the loss of one of its prominent leaders, civil rights and veteran advocates
Albuquerque, NM- the League of United Latin American Citizens of New Mexico (NM LULAC) is saddened by the loss of Mr. Lee J. Leyba on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Mr. Leyba was the NM LULAC State Director (1979-81) and National LULAC Vice President of the Southwest from (1981-82).
Mr. Leyba was a veteran with the United States Coast Guard. He was a retired federal investigator with U.S. Labor Department. Mr. Leyba devoted his life advocating for veteran’s rights and promoting social and economic parity for Hispanics at all level within our American society. He was also a Veteran Services Representative with the NM Department of Veterans Services. “Mr. Leyba was a tremendous leaders and beloved by many. His shoes in LULAC are hard to fill. He was certainly one of the best, if not the best State Director in NM LULAC History”, stated, Paul “Pablo” A. Martinez, Immediate Past State Director. Martinez further alluded, “He was one of my mentors and dedicated his life to help improve the lives of so many New Mexicans. He was tenacious and unequivocal in his passion to help our veterans…it is certainly a sad day for New Mexico LULAC and particularly the Hispanic community to loose a great friend and dynamic leader like Mr. Lee J. Leyba”.
*LULAC is this nation’s oldest and largest Latino organization. Since 1929, LULAC has served as a vanguard in fight for civil rights and social economic party for Latinos at all levels and facets in our American society. *
Albuquerque, NM- the League of United Latin American Citizens of New Mexico (NM LULAC) is saddened by the loss of Mr. Lee J. Leyba on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. Mr. Leyba was the NM LULAC State Director (1979-81) and National LULAC Vice President of the Southwest from (1981-82).
Mr. Leyba was a veteran with the United States Coast Guard. He was a retired federal investigator with U.S. Labor Department. Mr. Leyba devoted his life advocating for veteran’s rights and promoting social and economic parity for Hispanics at all level within our American society. He was also a Veteran Services Representative with the NM Department of Veterans Services. “Mr. Leyba was a tremendous leaders and beloved by many. His shoes in LULAC are hard to fill. He was certainly one of the best, if not the best State Director in NM LULAC History”, stated, Paul “Pablo” A. Martinez, Immediate Past State Director. Martinez further alluded, “He was one of my mentors and dedicated his life to help improve the lives of so many New Mexicans. He was tenacious and unequivocal in his passion to help our veterans…it is certainly a sad day for New Mexico LULAC and particularly the Hispanic community to loose a great friend and dynamic leader like Mr. Lee J. Leyba”.
*LULAC is this nation’s oldest and largest Latino organization. Since 1929, LULAC has served as a vanguard in fight for civil rights and social economic party for Latinos at all levels and facets in our American society. *
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