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1. Interview with Keith Ewing, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Ewing, M. Keith
Date Created:
2019-12-18
Description:
Keith Ewing, Coordinator of Library Systems & Digital Services at St. Cloud State University, retired in July 2017. Graduating with an MLS in 1979 from University of Texas at Austin, Ewing went on to work at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration, and in system and digital services roles at St. Cloud State University. In his interview, Keith disccusses internet and digital library technology in libraries, the inception of the Minnesota Digital Library, work on the first Minitex MEIR task force, the building of a new library at St. Cloud State University, mentors, and dinner with Ray Bradbury. This interview includes an audio recording and full transcript.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

2. Interview with Ruth Dukelow, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Dukelow, Ruth H.
Date Created:
2019-12-17
Description:
Ruth Dukelow retired as Director of CLIC (Cooperating Libraries in Consortium) in June 2019. Ruth Dukelow discusses her career as a librarian and director at libraries and consortia in Pennsylvania, Washington DC, North Carolina, Michigan, and Minnesota, culminating in her role as executive director of the CLIC Library System in the Twin Cities. Dukelow also mentions working with fellow OCLC network librarians from Minitex when she was at the Michigan Library Consortium such as Kathy Drozd, Becky Ringwelski, Mary Parker, and Carla Dewey Urban and traveling to OCLC headquarters for network meeting in the 1990s, and a memorable migration of the CLIC shared catalog to a next-generation library management system. This interview includes an audio recording, transcript, and photograph of the interviewee.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

3. Interview with Barbara Misselt, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Misselt, Barbara
Date Created:
2019-11-07
Description:
Barbara Misselt led the East Central Regional Library as Library System Director for 9 years, retiring April 1, 2017. Misselt's first library job was at the Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota, before moving to SELCO (Southeastern Libraries Cooperating) in Rochester, Minnesota, and ending her career at East Central Regional Library in Cambridge, Minnesota. In the interview, she discusses her connection to Minitex, working with former Minitex Director Bill DeJohn, Becky Ringwelski (former Associate Director of Minitex for Resource Sharing), Kathy Drozd (former Assistant Director for Delivery), and other influential colleagues from Minnesota libraries and the State Library. This interview includes an audio recording and full transcript.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

4. Interview with Wendy Pradt Lougee, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Lougee, Wendy Pradt
Date Created:
2019-07-09
Description:
Wendy Pradt Lougee was the University Librarian and Dean of Libraries at the University of Minnesota from 2002-2020. Prior to that role, over a period of 20 years, she held several positions at the University of Michigan, including Director of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library and Associate Director of the University Library for Digital Library Services. In this interview, Lougee traces her career path in Academic Libraries up to her latest role as University Librarian at the University of Minnesota. While at the University of Michigan Lougee put together the team that birthed JSTOR in the mid-1990s, a digital platform for accessing academic journals, which led to launching several other new digital projects and publishing projects. Lougee discusses the national organizations and boards she served on over the course of her career such as the Research Libraries Group, the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources, the Association of Research Libraries, HathiTrust, and the Big Ten Academic Alliance. Other topics discussed include: working with Minitex; colleagues that made an impact on Lougee's work such as Dick Dougherty, Dan Atkins, Paul Courant, and Governor Elmer Andersen; the awarding of the National Medal for Libraries and Museums to the University of Minnesota Libraries; and a few future library environment forecasts. This interview also includes an audio recording, transcript, and photograph of the interviewee.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

5. Interview with Valerie Horton, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Horton, Valerie
Date Created:
2019-05-16
Description:
Valerie Horton retired from her position as the director of Minitex in 2019. In this interview, she discusses her professional career beginning as a systems librarian at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She also worked as a systems librarian at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces and in the islands of Trinidad and Tobago assisting with early library automation. Her career highlights included serving as library director at Colorado Mesa University, Colorado Library Consortium, and Minitex (2014-2019). Horton discusses some initiatives from her time at Minitex, including the Minnesota Digital Library, Ebooks Minnesota, SimplyE, and the Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

6. Interview with John T. Butler, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Butler, John T.
Date Created:
2019-02-18
Description:
John T. Butler has served as the Associate University Librarian for Data and Technology at the University of Minnesota since 2008. Prior to that role, he was the inaugural Director of the University of Minnesota's Digital Library Development Lab, and also led the Science and Engineering Library at the University of Minnesota. In the interview, Butler discusses one of his earliest experiences working in libraries as a student for Minitex and other experiences leading up to his current role at the University of Minnesota libraries. Other topics discussed include: the development of the Minnesota Digital Library and the Minnesota Legacy Amendment funding; early mentors and influential colleagues Hank Rowan (Professor of Art, University of Minnesota), Susan Ardi (Engineering Librarian, University of Texas at Austin), Bill DeJohn, and Wendy Lougee; and his engagement with the Digital Public Library of America and HathiTrust. This interview also includes an audio recording, transcript, and photograph of the interviewee.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

7. Interview with Ken Behringer, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Behringer, Ken
Date Created:
2019-02-06
Description:
Ken Behringer retired from the Metropolitan Library Services Agency (MELSA), a regional public library system that serves the libraries in the seven-county Twin City metro area, in 2019. His career included becoming the first Executive Director of MNLINK, serving as the Director of the Dakota County Library and the Great River Regional Libraries, and library positions in Wyoming and the North Dakota State Library. In this interview, he describes the development of library services in Minnesota that he observed from various points in his career and as a lifelong library user. Behringer often found his role to be in working with local county decisionmakers as well as the state legislature to secure funding for libraries. That led to impacts on budgeting for improved library services, technological advances, and the development of regional and state-wide library systems that have strengthened the library community in the state. He also discusses the colleagues who have been influential throughout his career including Bill Asp, Bill DeJohn, Charlene Mason, Roseanne Byrne, and Mike Turbes. This interview also includes an audio recording, transcript, and photograph of the interviewee.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

8. Interview with Joan Roca, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Roca, Joan
Date Created:
2018-07-22
Description:
Joan Roca retired from his role as Dean of Library Services at Minnesota State University Mankato in 2018. In this interview, he discusses his professional history, including his role and recollections of the development of the PALS software, his work on MNLINK systems integration committee, and as a member of other library professional committees. Joan credits several of his mentors -- Dale Carrison, Sylverna Ford, Bill DeJohn, Mary Parker, Keith Ewing, Tom Shaughnessy, and Wendy Lougee -- as having positive and lasting impacts on his career trajectory. This interview also includes an audio recording, transcript, and photograph of the interviewee.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

9. Interview with William (Bill) DeJohn, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
DeJohn, William
Date Created:
2011-05-13
Description:
William (Bill) DeJohn received his Masters in Library Science in 1967 from the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences. He was the Director of Minitex, which serves academic, public, state agency, and other special libraries in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, from 1984-2012. DeJohn was actively involved in efforts to further library resource sharing throughout the Minitex region and beyond. In the interview he answers questions submitted to him by library staff in the Minitex region. Bill discusses: his first library job at Daniel Boone Regional Library, Columbia, Missouri; early interlibrary loan work at the Missouri State Library; former University of Minnesota Librarian Edward Stanford and the beginning of Minitex; additional funding for technological developments in the 1990's that led to ELM, MLAC, and the MnLINK Gateway; influential people for library services during Bill's tenure; the future of Minitex; his secret reading addiction; and words of wisdom for library staff today.This interview also includes the following: An audio recording, recording table of contents, transcript, and photograph of the interviewee.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

10. Winona Public Library Children's Department Checkout Desk, Winona, Minnesota

Date Created:
1978 - 1980
Description:
A photograph showing Mary Lou Stutzka, Library Assistant, checking out a book at the Children's Department Checkout Desk in the Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

11. Preschool storytime, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Kelley, Harriet J.
Date Created:
1975
Description:
A photograph of children in the 1975 10:30am preschool story hour in the Children's Department Storytime Room, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

12. Preschool storytime, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Kelley, Harriet J.
Date Created:
1974
Description:
A photograph of children in the 1974 9:15am preschool story hour in the Children's Department Storytime Room, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

13. Preschool storytime, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Date Created:
1971 - 1972
Description:
A photograph of children in the 1971-1972 preschool story hour in the Children's Department Storytime Room, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

14. Preschool storytime, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Kelley, Harriet J.
Date Created:
1967 - 1968
Description:
A photograph of children in the 1967-1968 9:15am preschool story hour in the Children's Department Storytime Room, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

15. Preschool storytime, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Kelley, Harriet J.
Date Created:
1966 - 1967
Description:
A photograph of children in the 1966-1967 10:15am preschool story hour in the Children's Department Storytime Room, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

16. Preschool storytime, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Kelley, Harriet J.
Date Created:
1965 - 1966
Description:
A photograph of children in the 1965-1966 11:15am preschool story hour in the Children's Department Storytime Room, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

17. Preschool storytime, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Kelley, Harriet J.
Date Created:
1963 - 1964
Description:
A photograph of children in the 1963-1964 9:15am preschool story hour in the Children's Department Storytime Room, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

18. Preschool storytime, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Kelley, Harriet J.
Date Created:
1962 - 1963
Description:
A photograph of children in the 1962-1963 11:15am preschool story hour in the Children's Department Storytime Room, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

19. Come Read, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1955 - 1956
Description:
An informational leaflet about the materials and services available at the Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota. A monthly calendar of exhibits, titled "College Art in Minnesota," is included.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Leaflets (printed works)

20. Winona Public Library: Fifty Years of Service, 1899-1949, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1949
Description:
A booklet on the history of the Winona Public Library in its first 50 years of service to the community of Winona, Minnesota. Photographs of William Harris Laird, Fred S. Bell, the library and its patrons are included.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

21. Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota 1932-1933 actual budget, 1933-1934 proposed budget

Creator:
Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1932 - 1934
Description:
The Winona Free Public Library 1932-1933 actual budget and the 1933-1934 proposed budget. Includes two attached notes.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Budgets

22. Exhibition of Paintings by Adelaide Magner, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1917
Description:
A leaflet containing a list of Adelaide Magner's paintings displayed during the exhibit at the Winona Public Library, along with some brief biographical information. The exhibit took place from April 30 to May 7, 1917.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Leaflets (printed works)

23. Exhibition of Paintings by Austin Willard Lord, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1916-11
Description:
A leaflet containing a list of Austin Willard Lord's paintings displayed during the exhibit at the Winona Public Library, along with some brief biographical information. The exhibit took place from November 9 - 20, 1916.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Leaflets (printed works)

24. Catalogue of Paintings by Nicholas R. Brewer at Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1915-11
Description:
A leaflet containing a list of paintings by Nicholas R. Brewer of New York, given under the auspices of the Ruskin Art Club, at the Winona Public Library. The exhibit was held from November 17 - 27, 1915.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Leaflets (printed works)

25. Exhibition of Oil Paintings from Choate Collection, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1915-03
Description:
A leaflet containing a list of paintings and artists from the Choate Collection on exhibit at the Winona Public Library, March 1915.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Leaflets (printed works)

26. Public Exhibition of Modern Paintings by American Artists, Members of the Artists' Guild of Chicago, Under the Auspices of the Winona Public Library at the Laird Library Building, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1915-01
Description:
A leaflet containing a catalog of paintings and artists in the exhibit at the Winona Public Library. The exhibit took place January 15-17, 1915.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Leaflets (printed works)

27. Thomas J. Green heating estimate and sketch to Winona Public Library Board of Directors, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Green, Thomas J.
Date Created:
1913-05-19
Description:
An estimate from Thomas J. Green, Heating and Ventilating Engineer, to change the heating in the Winona Public Library stack room, adding radiators and piping per the attached plan.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

28. Letter from the Wenonah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Morrison, Mrs. D. B.; Wenonah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1912-04-13
Description:
A letter from Mrs. D. B. Morrison, secretary of the Wenonah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, to Burr D. Blair, President of the Laird Library Board, Winona, Minnesota. The letter notes the gift of a flag to the Winona Free Public Library.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

29. Letter from Fred S. Bell to Jeannette A. Clark, Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Bell, Frederick Somers, 1859-1938
Date Created:
1910-05-09
Description:
A letter to Jeannette A. Clark, librarian, from Fred S. Bell, Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library, regarding Winona Library Association funds usage toward library book purchases.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

30. Letter from William Hayes to the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Hayes, William
Date Created:
1910-02-26
Description:
A letter from William Hayes to Edward Lees, President of the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library, regarding the donation of a Kenyon Cox "Light of Learning" mural painting to the library in memory of his wife, Charlotte Prentiss Hayes. Cox's copyright statement regarding his work is included.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

31. Light of Learning, Painted by Kenyon Cox, Presented to The Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1910
Description:
A leaflet describing The Light of Learning mural painting by Kenyon Cox in the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota. The mural was donated by William Hayes in memory of his wife, Charlotte Prentiss Hayes.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Leaflets (printed works)

32. Duluth Public Library salary information letter to Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Poirier, Lydia M.
Date Created:
1908-07-23
Description:
A letter from Lydia M. Poirier, Librarian at Duluth Public Library, Minnesota, to E. E. Stugard, Board of Directors of the Winona Public Library, regarding library salaries.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

33. Enos Company, New York, letter and light fixture sketch to Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Enos Company, New York
Date Created:
1908-03-02
Description:
A letter and sketch from The Enos Company, New York, to the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota, regarding light fixtures.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

34. Letter to the Commissioners of Winona County from Winona Public Library Board Committee, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Blair, Burr D.; McConnon, Joseph; Whipple, William J.; Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1907-11-21
Description:
A letter to the Commissioners of Winona County, Minnesota, from a special committee appointed by the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library. The letter requests additional funding for the library from Winona County at a rate of $3.00 per year, per county patron.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

35. Warren P. Laird letter to Winona Free Public Library Board, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Laird, Warren Powers, 1861-1948
Date Created:
1907-08-10
Description:
A letter from Warren Powers Laird, University of Pennsylvania, to Elmer E. Shephard, secretary of the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library. Laird redirects the library's inquiry regarding an addition to the book stacks to his colleague, Edgar V. Seeler.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

36. Petition from the Bohemian residents of the city to the Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Bohemian citizens, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1907-06-10
Description:
A hand-signed petition to the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library from the Bohemian residents of the City of Winona requesting the purchase of books published in their native language. It is accompanied by a letter from Edward M. Lehnerts, State Normal School, Winona, Minnesota, stating his support for the petition.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Petitions

37. Fred S. Bell resignation letter, Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Bell, Frederick Somers, 1859-1938
Date Created:
1906-03-02
Description:
A letter from Fred S. Bell to the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library. Bell tenders his resignation as President of the Board of Directors after 20 years of service.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

38. Petition from the Polish residents of the city to the Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Polish citizens, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1906
Description:
A hand-signed petition to the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library from the Polish residents of the City of Winona requesting the purchase of books published in the Polish language.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Petitions

39. Questions in the Library Examination, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1905-06-24
Description:
The librarian examination for applicants at the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Examinations (documents)

40. Bookplate design letter, Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Snow, Martha W.; Hubbell Margaret J.; Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1904-07-14
Description:
A letter to the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library from the special committee regarding the library's new bookplate design.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

41. Letter to the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library , Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Bell, Frederick Somers, 1859-1938; Lees, Edward
Date Created:
1904-06-17
Description:
A letter from Fred S. Bell and Edward Lees, Executive Committee, to the Directors of the Winona Free Public Library regarding library staff examinations, positions, and compensation.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

42. Statistical report of the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1904
Description:
The annual statistical report for the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota, for the year ending 1904.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Reports

43. Laird Library Building, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1901-11
Description:
A descriptive and photographic booklet about the Winona Free Public Library's Laird Library Building, Winona, Minnesota. The booklet includes floor plans and photographs of notable architectural features of the library.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

44. Winona Public Library Annual Report, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1901 - 1902
Description:
The annual statistical report of the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Reports

45. Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Date Created:
1900 - 1910
Description:
A photograph of the Winona Public Library as viewed from the corner of Fifth and Johnson Streets, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

46. Polska Literatura, Bulletyn Numer Czwarty, Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1900 - 1910
Description:
A booklet with a listing of the Winona Free Public Library's Polish literature materials.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

47. Exchange Room, Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Date Created:
1900 - 1910
Description:
A photograph of the interior second floor central Exchange Room of the Winona Public Library, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Black-and-white photographs

48. Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company letter to Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Gay, J. F.; Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1899-01-17
Description:
A letter from the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company to Fred S. Bell, Winona Free Public Library, regarding the offer of free telephone service for the new library building.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

49. Winona Free Public Library, Librarian's Report, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1899-01 - 1899-12
Description:
The monthly Librarian's Reports of the Winona Free Public Library, Winona Minnesota, for the year of 1899.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Reports

50. Bulletin IV, Librarian's Duties, Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Executive Committee, Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota; Bell, Frederick Somers, 1859-1938; Lees, Edward
Date Created:
1899 - 1905
Description:
The fourth bulletin from the Winona Free Public Library's by-laws, chapter 2, article 3, and chapter 1, article 3. The bulletin details the librarian's duties, as well as the assistant librarian, Miss Black, and the first attendant, Miss Von Rohr. It is signed by the library's Executive Committee, Fred S. Bell, Edward Lees, and Mrs. S. W. Morgan.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Bulletins

51. Check from Winona Library Association to Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Board of Directors, Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1898-10-03
Description:
The original check transferring the remaining funds from the Winona Library Association to the newly formed Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota. The check is signed by Fred S. Bell, president, and Edward Lees, secretary, of the Board of Directors of the library.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text

52. Letter to Winona Free Public Library Board of Directors, Winona, Minnesota, from the Furniture Committee

Creator:
Furniture Committee, Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1898-08-26
Description:
A letter to the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library from the Furniture Committee outlining the articles of furniture recommended for purchase for new library building.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

53. Letter from the Boston Public Library to the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Putnam, Herbert; Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts
Date Created:
1898-04-02
Description:
A letter from Herbert Putnam, librarian, Boston Public Library, to Fred S. Bell, president of the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota. The letter acknowledges Boston Public Library's receipt of a blue print of the Winona Free Public Library's floor plan and two photographs of the building's exterior as a gift to the library.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

54. Secretary's annual financial report to the Winona Free Public Library Board of Directors, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Lees, Edward
Date Created:
1898-03-05
Description:
The annual financial report as prepared by Edward Lees, the secretary of the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Reports

55. Proposition to build a new free public library in Winona, Minnesota by William Harris Laird and adopted Board of Directors resolution

Creator:
Laird, William H. (William Harris), 1833-1910
Date Created:
1897-02-06
Description:
The original hand-written letter from William Harris Laird to the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library to build a new library. Laird estimates the new building will cost $40,000, which he will provide. Actual costs exceeded that by approximately $10,000 and Laird covered the additional expense. The resolution by the Board of Directors accepting Laird's gift is also included, along with a transcribed version of the original proposition.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

56. Stillwater Library Association Record Book

Creator:
Stillwater Library Association
Date Created:
1896 - 1901
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Stillwater Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Minutes (administrative records)

57. Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota, list of cardholders

Creator:
Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1893 - 1898
Description:
Lists of Winona Free Public Library cardholders.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Membership lists

58. Winona Free Public Library, Librarian's Report, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1890-01 - 1890-12
Description:
The monthly Librarian's Reports of the Winona Free Public Library, Winona Minnesota, for the year of 1890.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Reports

59. Winona Illustrated : Historical, Picturesque, Descriptive

Date Created:
1888
Description:
A bound volume containing historical information and black and white photographs of Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Books

60. By-laws of the Winona Free Public Library and Reading Rooms, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1888
Description:
The bylaws of the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota, adopted May 26, 1886.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text

61. Proceedings of the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Board of Directors, Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1886-03-27 - 1933-09-08
Description:
The proceedings of the Board of Directors of the Winona Free Public Library, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Proceedings

62. Notice of special meeting of the Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1886-03-24
Description:
A notice of a special meeting of the Winona Library Association to consider and vote upon the transfer of all property of the Association to the City of Winona, as contemplated in the ordinance creating a Free Public Library, passed by the City Council on March 8, 1886.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Postal cards

63. Minutes from a special meeting of the Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1886-03-24
Description:
The minutes of a special meeting of the Winona Library Association to certify and adopt the City resolution to create a free public library in Winona. The minutes include attached local newspaper clippings related to the resolution.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Minutes (administrative records)

64. Winona Library Association proposition to Winona, Minnesota, Mayor and City Council

Creator:
Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1886-02-15
Description:
The Winona Library Association's proposition to Winona Mayor and City Council to form a free public library.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

65. Stillwater Library Association Treasurer's Book

Creator:
Stillwater Library Association
Date Created:
1878 - 1898
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Stillwater Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Accounts

66. Jansen, McClurg and Company receipt to Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Jansen, McClurg & Company, Chicago, Illinois
Date Created:
1877-05-07
Description:
A receipt issued by Jansen, McClurg and Company to the Winona Library Association for the purchase of books.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Receipts (financial records)

67. Subscriber agreement and list, Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1876-01-29
Description:
The agreement hand-signed by individual subscribers to the Winona Library Association, promising a contribution of at least ten dollars each year for the next five years.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Membership lists

68. Subscriber agreement and list, Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1876-01-29
Description:
The agreement hand-signed by individual subscribers to the Winona Library Association, promising a contribution of at least five dollars each year for the next five years.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Membership lists

69. Check from the Treasurer of Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota, payable to J.E. Prentiss, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1874-04-28
Description:
A check from the Treasurer of the Winona Library Association to J.E. Prentiss for insurance in the amount of fifteen dollars, signed by E. (Ernest) A. Gerdtzen, Secretary, and O. (Ozro) B. Gould, President. The check is number 18 and dated April 28, 1874.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Checks (bank checks)

70. Catalogue of Books (Stillwater Library Association, August, 1874), Stillwater, Minnesota

Creator:
Stillwater Library Association
Date Created:
1874
Description:
The Stillwater Library Association's printed 1874 Catalogue of Books contains 535 titles in the areas of science, history and biography, travel and advenutre, fiction and miscellaneous. A list of library rules is also included in the catalogue.
Contributing Institution:
Stillwater Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Booklets

71. Articles of Incorporation, Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1873-06-11
Description:
The Articles of Incorporation for the Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota. The document is stamped as registered with Winona County and the Minnesota Secretary of State.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Articles of incorporation

72. Member list, Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1873 - 1875
Description:
A list of the names and expiration dates of the members of the Winona Library Association, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Membership lists

73. Stillwater Library Association, Meeting and Record Book, September 1, 1870, Stillwater, Minnesota

Creator:
Stillwater Library Association
Date Created:
1870 - 1896
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Stillwater Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Minutes (administrative records)

74. Clark T. Morris elected as Treasurer of the Young Men's Library Association, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Morris, Clark T.; Lamberton, W. H.; Sprague, J. W.
Date Created:
1869-05-15
Description:
A document that notes the election of Clark T. Morris as the new treasurer of the Young Men's Library Association.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Documents (other)

75. Young Men's Library Association lease, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Bennett, Thomas E.
Date Created:
1869-04-20
Description:
The original signed lease to the Young Men's Library Association in contract with Thomas E. Bennett, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Contracts

76. "A. W. L. S." (Associated Western Literary Societies), Circular number 12

Creator:
Associated Western Literary Societies, Chicago, Illinois
Date Created:
1867-02-15
Description:
The Associated Western Literary Societies circular noting Wendell Phillips' lecture schedule. Phillips was scheduled to speak in Winona, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Faribault in April of 1867.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Bulletins

77. Henry H. Sibley letter to Young Men's Library Association, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Sibley, Henry Hopkins, 1816-1886
Date Created:
1867-01-28
Description:
A letter from Henry H. Sibley, St. Paul, Minnesota, to Charles Benson, President of the Young Men's Library Association (YMLA), regarding his upcoming speaking engagement in Winona, Minnesota. Sibley's lecture on the "Early Times of Minnesota" took place on the last day in February in 1867 and was sponsored by the YMLA.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Letters (correspondence)

78. Y.M.L.A. Course of Lectures from January 1, to May 1, 1867. Season ticket

Creator:
Keyes, D. W.; Young Men's Library Association, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1867-01 - 1867-05
Description:
A season ticket to the Young Men's Library Association Course of Lectures, from January 1 to May 1, 1867, in Winona, Minnesota. The ticket admits one lady and gentleman. Featured speakers include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Professor Edward Youmans, Theodore Tilton, General Henry H. Sibley, Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, and Petroleum V. Nasby.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Tickets

79. Newspaper clippings, Young Men's Library Association, Fred. Douglass, and, A Course for Lectures for 1867, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Keyes, D. W.; Mitchell, William B., 1832-1900; Benson, Charles; Young Men's Library Association, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1867
Description:
Newspaper clippings that advertise the Young Men's Library Association Course of Lectures for 1867 in Winona, Minnesota. Scheduled to appear were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Professor Edward Youmans, Theodore Tilton, General Henry Sibley, Frederick Douglass, and Wendell Phillips.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Advertisements

80. Proceedings of the Young Men's Library Association, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Young Men's Library Association, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1866 - 1898
Description:
The handwritten proceedings of the Young Men's Library Association, Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Proceedings

81. Winona library historical notes, pre-1866, Winona, Minnesota

Date Created:
1866
Description:
Handwritten notes that document the creation of a library in Winona, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Notes

82. Articles of Incorporation, Young Men's Library Association, Winona, Minnesota

Creator:
Young Men's Library Association, Winona, Minnesota
Date Created:
1863-06-13
Description:
The Articles of Incorporation for the Young Men's Library Association, Winona, Minnesota. The document is noted as registered with Winona County and the State of Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Winona Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Articles of incorporation

83. Records, Meeting Notes and Records of the Stillwater Library Association, June 17, 1859, Stillwater, Minnesota

Creator:
Stillwater Library Association
Date Created:
1859 - 1861
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Stillwater Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Minutes (administrative records)
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