Kathy Barco is currently a children s librarian with Albuquerque s public library, following five years as youth services coordinator at the New Mexico State Library. Barco earned her MLIS from the University of Southern Mississippi. She contributed to Thinking Outside the Book: Essays for Innovative Librarians and wrote the foreword to Librarians As Community Partners: An Outreach Handbook. Barco s READiscover New Mexico: A Tri-Lingual Adventure in Literacy won a New Mexico Book Award. She is on the board of the New Mexico Library Foundation and received the New Mexico Library Association s L...