Thursday, May 30, 2024

20th Annual REFORMA Northeast Joint Mini-Conference

We are excited to invite you to the 20th Annual REFORMA Northeast Joint Mini-Conference! This regional coming together of the five ALA NALCos will take place on Friday, June 14, 2024 at the Bronx Library Center of the New York Public Library. This year's theme is "The Power of 'Welcome!": Strategies for Maximizing Libraries as a Place for Everyone."

We are thrilled to announce that our keynote speaker will be Ms. Shauntee Burns-Simpson, currently Director of Youth & Family Services for the District of Columbia Public Library Foundation and known to many of us as a long-time librarian in New York and for her tireless work in BCALA and ALA. The day will also feature a variety of speakers from both public and academic libraries in the Northeast.

To register for the Joint Mini-Conference, please use the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16w9DYARuS5FhUcDAlf-fzSOFx0MvUtYBVNLWyhMDYU4/edit [docs.google.com]. (More information about the day's events and a link to the conference website will be shared soon on our home page, https://www.reformanortheast.org/ [reformanortheast.org].) 

A boxed lunch from Panera will be provided, and please make sure to let us know of any dietary restrictions. In addition, we are excited to announce that the program will also be a hybrid program for the first time, so please let us know if you will be attending in person or remotely.

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

REFORMA Meeting May 17th

Join us on Friday, May 17th for our next Membership Meeting from 1-4pm at the Providence Public Library in Rhode Island.

Please use the following link to register for the meeting: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PrrZ8iK5_HHmrutrNMlmrWsLMQzRUuUF71MV_J3CG_E/edit [docs.google.com]. Please remember to share if you will be attending in person or via Zoom.

The Agenda and the Zoom link for the meeting will go out Wednesday, May 15th. If you have anything you would like to add to the Membership Meeting Agenda, please let us know.

All the best,

Louis Muñoz Jr., President
REFORMA Northeast Chapter

P.S. If you haven't already, please be sure you've saved the date for the Joint Mini-Conference in New York on Friday, June 14th! The JMC Committee is finalizing the program in the next few weeks, and we're looking forward to sharing a great day together!

The Northeast Chapter of REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library & Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking, covers people living or working in the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, or Rhode Island. http://www.reformanortheast.org/ [reformanortheast.org]