Amigos welcomes Andrea Cox as the newest addition to the team, stepping into the position of Cataloging and Metadata Trainer. Andrea was asked to share a little about herself with Amigos members and here is what she replied.

Amigos Library Services is making a first of its kind investment in increasing the capacity of its 500+ library members by implementing a multi-year partnership with talent management platform Skilltype. This partnership will provide access to a pilot group of research libraries to begin deploying a data-driven approach to organizational development. Initial pilot participants include Baylor University, Rice University, Southern Methodist University, Texas Christian University, Texas Tech University, The University of Texas at Austin, and Washington University in St. Louis.

The Amigos Library Services Annual Report for the 2021-2022 Membership Year is now available. Organized around the new strategic plan, the report reviews the year's activities in relation to the goals and strategies of the plan.

Missouri Libraries 2 Go (MOLIB2GO), an OverDrive consortium administered by Amigos, is once again a member of the Million Checkouts Club for 2022. MOLIB2GO, made up of over 100 Missouri public libraries with similar interests and patron populations, continued to work together to share a collection of over 77,000 ebooks and audiobooks.

With an exclusively designed sponsorship package, Amigos supported the Northwest Interlibrary Loan & Resource Sharing (NWILL) Conference. exhibiting at a virtual booth and providing several Amigos member libraries scholarships for a staff member to attend the conference. Recipients of the Amigos Scholarships were asked to share some takeaways from the conference such as what stood out to them at the conference and anything they started or planned to change after having attended the conference.