
Stafford made significant contributions to Zollinger Library
Staff Reports
After spending a nearly 42-year career in library sciences, Cecilia Stafford, M.L.S., will officially retire on Oct. 1, leaving a legacy of accomplishments that has impacted not only UNM-Gallup, but the New Mexico State University branch campus in Grants, as well as Tulane University, and the University of New Orleans.
“I began work at UNM-Gallup’s Zollinger Library on Aug. 1, 2016, after serving as library director at NMSU-Grants for 10 years,” Stafford explained. “I moved to New Mexico from New Orleans in Aug. 2006—one year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast region—leaving my...