Kathleen Moeller-Peiffer will be New Mexico’s next State Librarian.

Ms. Moeller-Peiffer brings 37 years of experience in Library and Information Science, most recently serving as New Jersey’s Deputy State Librarian for Lifelong Learning. She has spent the past 11 years at the New Jersey State Library in programming, management, administration, and budgeting for 300 public libraries.

“I am eager to assume the role of director of the New Mexico State Library,” Moeller-Peiffer said.  “I understand the complexity of a State Library administrative agency and look forward to making the very best library services available to the residents of New Mexico. My hope for the immediate future is to meet with library associations, organizations, and individual library leaders throughout New Mexico to understand both the successes and challenges of delivering library service in our state. I also want the New Mexico State Library to be in a leadership role for public libraries in terms of ‘best practices’ in library and information services,” Moeller-Peiffer said.

She will be begin her new role in early June.

More information from the NM State Library

Staff have been hearing and seeing things, prompting  the Las Cruces Sun-News to ask the question: Do spirits linger in the stacks of Branigan Library in Las Cruces?

“Do ghosts read? I don’t know. But there may be attachments to a favorite book and emotions that go with it: loss and love. People love their books. And some spirits might go with a book when it’s checked out, and come back when it’s checked in,” Turner opines.

Well, that is certainly something to think about next time you’re browsing the shelves at the library.

Farmington’s Daily-Times reports that 16 year old artist Ashley Parker of Aztec, NM, recently won a national poster competition for Lights On Afterschool, a nationwide event started in 1999 “that provides youth an opportunity to showcase talents they learned during after-school programs.

For Ashley Parker, that program was Farmington Public Library’s Blended Zine, a magazine created for and by teens of San Juan County. She’s been contributing art to the magazine for the past two years, mostly Sharpie drawings.

This year’s Lights On Afterschool celebration is October 23rd, and Ashley will be at the Farmington Public Library from 4-5pm signing the posters that she designed.

Aztec artist Ashley Parker at the Farmington Public Library signing the poster she designed.