“El Buqui” was a quarterly publication produced in 1979 and 1980 by the Arizona State Library Association’s newly formed Services to the Spanish Speaking Roundtable and the Arizona chapter of REFORMA. At the time, both groups had combined into one larger organization. A total of six issues of the newsletter were published. According to the welcoming note in the first issue, each issue sought to feature”book and media reviews, commentaries on library-related topics, along with program ideas and events, job announcements and personalities”. Below are all the issues that were published. They are linked as pdf files.
As current president of the Tucson Chapter of REFORMA, The National Association for the Promotion of Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking, I am very interested in the history of librarianship and library services in Tucson and Arizona, and these newsletters provide great insights into the work of those librarians who were active in the 1970s and 1980s. Many of them were graduates of the University of Arizona Library School’s Graduate LIbrary Institute for Spanish Speaking Americans, or GLISA.
Vol. 2, no. 3