The annual workshops for Youth Services librarians from participating libraries will be held in November this year. For the northern part of the state, the workshop will be at South Broadway Branch, Albuquerque Public Library, on Tuesday, November 14, from 1-4 p.m. In the south, it will be held at the Ruidoso Public Library on Wednesday, November 15, from 1-4 p.m. Contact Patricia Froehlich, Youth Services Director, at the New Mexico State Library, for further information. Semos Unlimited, Inc. has produced a bilingual periodical called Amig os and other bilingual educational materials for ten years now. This year Semos received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Amigos is written monthly on four reading levels.
As part of their grant, they are sending a set of all four reading levels to each public library in New Mexico. Libraries should receive the first set for this school year during the first week in September. If you would like to see the other materials Semos produces, you can visit their web site . Up for grabs. The University of New Mexico General Libraries is withdrawing second copies of Fortune Magazine from their collection and would like to offer them, for the cost of postage, to any institution in New Mexico that has an interest in taking them.