Program for the Wisconsin-Minnesota Library Meeting and the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Wisconsin Library Association held in Superior, Wisconsin and Duluth, Minnesota, September 15-18, 1909. Includes list of Wisconsin Library Association officers, and meeting agenda. Topics include Northern Libraries, book symposium, and roundtable.
Program for the Upper Midwest Regional Library Conference, which took place at Hotel Nicollet in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 3rd-7th, 1947. States participating included Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Governor Luther W. Youngdahl provided the welcome. General session topics included: forgotten children's books, inter-cultural relations through the library, library service for children and young people, library service in Australia, state aid to libraries, a panel on salaries, a panel on library issues in each state, and upper midwest books.
The document is dated October 1, 1938 and contains 60 trivia questions and answers relating to Minnesota public and academic libraries, education, and the Minnesota Library Association.
Title list and author (last name only) of the Minnesota Library Association Travelling Library Number 2. List contains titles of forty volumes of a variety of fiction and non-fiction materials, as well as magazines such as Harper's and Youth's Companion. Notes indicate the collection circulated to Barnum, Midway, Deerwood and Thompson, Minnesota.
Title list and author (last name only) of the Minnesota Library Association Travelling Library Number 1. List contains titles of forty volumes of a variety of fiction and non-fiction materials, as well as magazines such as Godey's and Cosmopolitan. Note indicate the collection circulated to Thompson, Carleton, Midway, Barnum and Iron River, Minnesota between 1898 and 1902.
Title list and author (last name only) of the Minnesota Library Association Travelling Library Number 3. List contains titles of forty volumes of a variety of fiction and non-fiction materials, as well as magazines such as Ladies Home Journal. Notes indicate the collection circulated to Deerwood, Biwabic and Barnum, Minnesota.
Title list and author (last name only) of the Minnesota Library Association Traveling Library No. 4 containing forty volumes of fiction and non-fiction. Notes indicate this collection was circulated to Midway, Barnum, and Carleton locations in 1898-1900.
Title list and author (last name only) of the Minnesota Library Association Traveling Library No. 6 containing forty volumes of fiction and non-fiction. Notes indicate this collection was circulated to Carlton, Thompson, and Midway locations in 1898.
Title list and author (last name only) of the Minnesota Library Association Traveling Library No. 5 containing forty volumes of fiction and non-fiction. Notes indicate this collection was circulated to Biwabik and Midway locations in 1898-1899.
The Stillwater Library Association Treasurer's Book contains the financial records of the Stillwater Library Association including lending receipts, private donations from individuals and businesses, fundraising, the librarian�s salary, expenditures for books and day to day operating expenses.
Stillwater Library Association Record Book includes meeting minutes, content of the collection, funding sources, lending practices, day to day operations of the library, and the names of the members of the Stillwater Library Association. The volume also describes the orderly transfer of the Stillwater Library Association records and collections to the newly formed Stillwater Public Library.
The Stillwater Library Association's handwritten record book includes detailed meeting minutes from 1870 - 1896. Elections of officers, fundraising events, finances, book acquisitions, membership lists and day to day library business transactions are meticuluosly recorded.
The Record documents the formation of the Stillwater Library Association on Jun 7, 1859. The Constitution, a membership list and detailed meeting minutes including the election of officers and book acquisitions are meticulously recorded. The Stillwater Library Association was formed as a city library association in 1859, and the Stillwater Public Library still operates as a city library today.
Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Newsletter, Vol. 1, Number 10, April 10, 1975 includes the President's Letter by Barbara Hughes; an update on the White House Conference; excerpts from recent MLA Board meetings; call for a study commission to examine elements of statewide library and information services; meeting notes and activities of Special Libraries Roundtable, Media Roundtable, Management Roundtable, Academic and Research Libraries Division, Children and Young People's Section, and Government Documents Roundtable, with review of the recent report, ""Minnesota State Documents, a prescriptive study"" by Shaun Duffy; Calendar of Events April-June, 1975; meeting notice for Library Subcommittee of the State Board of Education on proposed actions to improve library services throughout the state; news of the pending Public Library Assistance Act of 1975; announcements of the creation of the Traverse des Sioux Regional Library System covering the Region Nine area of South Central Minnesota, creation of a search committee named to recruit a new OPLIC Director, and an Institute by the ALA Library Administration Division entitled "Running out of Space -- What are the Alternatives?" to be held in conjunction with the ALA Conference in San Francisco June 26-28, 1975; plus tentative programs for Midwest Federation of Library Associations in Detroit, Michigan, October 1-4, 1975, and MLA Fall Conference at the Thunderbird Motel in Minneapolis, November 13-14, 1975.
Board of Trustees of the Grand Marais Public Library (Grand Marais, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1904 - 1967
Description:
This ledger contains the handwritten minutes of the meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Grand Marais Public Library, in Grand Marais, Minnesota, from the first meeting in December 1904 through September 1967. The establishment and development of the library can be traced through these notes, along with the participation of many prominent community members who considered the library an important asset to their town.
Program description for the joint conference of the Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin Library Associations. The program took place on October 18-21st, 1939 at the Hotel Schroeder in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The theme was "Rural Social Problems: Their Implications for Libraries." In addition to general sessions, the conference included a presentation on rural social problems and implications for libraries by Lowry Nelson (Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota), a presentation by Essae M. Culver (President-Elect, American Library Association) and Charles H. Brown (Chairman, Third Activities Committee, A.L.A.), a gallery tour of American Humor at the Milwaukee-Downer College Library, banquet speaker Howard Y. McClusky (Assistant to Vice-President in charge of Adult Education, University of Michigan) on the topic of capitalizing a community's resources, and closing session speaker Dr. Max Lerner (Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.).
Program for Minnesota Library Association members given by Hibbing Concert Band on September 17, 1920. Includes list of musical selections played, and information and statistics about the city of Hibbing, Minnesota, the Mahoning and Hull-Rust mines, and the Hibbing Public Library with a list of the library board members and library staff.
Program description of the MLA (Minnesota Library Association) school and children's librarians luncheon at the Women's City Club, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 12, 1935. The guest speaker for the event was Mrs. Caroline Dale Snedeker
Program for the Minnesota Library Association regional conference held at Stearns County Library, St. Cloud, Minnesota, on November 3, 1945. Topics included: ALA standards for libraries, library work with the disabled, county and regional libraries, a layman's view of county libraries, the place of libraries in home planning, and an afternoon session on Norwegian folklore and folkways.
Minnesota Library Association; Shipman, Frances R.
Date Created:
1944
Description:
Letter from the Minnesota Library Association Radio Representative Frances R. Shipman to Secretary Marian Phillips reporting on activities for the 1943-1944 year. Activities included the arrangement of contestants for the Twin Cities Radio Quiz of November 1, 1943, which included members of the Minneapolis and St. Paul Public Libraries. Contest winnings were donated to the Children's Memorial Library Fund.
Notes from the pre-conference of the Minnesota Library Association annual conference, which took place September 30 - October 1, 1949. Content included a round table discussion on the following: general information about the Public Library Inquiry report, the library public and information for library trustees, a summary of the general characteristics of librarians, and extension of library service.
Minnesota Library Association; Wulff, L. Yvonne (editor)
Date Created:
1977-09
Description:
Volume 4, number 8 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in September 1977. Content includes announcement of a Governor's Conference on Libraries and Information Services by Governor Perpich to be held September 1978, Environment Information Sharin conference announcement, ALA councilor's report to MLA, MLA annual conference schedule, national library news, MLA August board meeting notes, and MLA Legislative Inquiry task force appointments.