This issue is preceeded by Volume 3, Number 3 - 1975 and succeeded by Volume 3, Number 5 - 1975. NorTec News was a staff publication (by faculty and staff, for faculty and staff) that was published from December 1972 to December 1975. It included campus news and happenings, as well as new staff, program director lists, and employee birthdays and anniversaries. Hennepin Technical College began as Suburban Hennepin County Area Vocational Technical Centers - District 287 in 1972. Through the years the name was changed to Hennepin Technical Center, Hennepin Technical Institute, and currently Hennepin Technical College.
NorTec News was a staff publication (by faculty and staff, for faculty and staff) that was published from December 1972 to December 1975. It includes campus news and happenings, as well as new staff, program director lists, and employee birthdays and anniversaries. Hennepin Technical College began as Suburban Hennepin County Area Vocational Technical Centers - District 287 in 1972. Through the years the name was changed to Hennepin Technical Center, Hennepin Technical Institute, and currently Hennepin Technical College.
Volume 19, number 3 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in April 1970. Contents include an MLA re-evaluation committee final report, a call for MLA award nominations, MLA section and committee reports, an editor's note, and an events calendar.
Volume 20, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in May 1971. Contents include an article about developing an oral history collection, MLA Librarian of the Year Award to Erana Stadler Donahue, MLA section and committee reports, book reviews, a letter to the editor with MLA Legislative Committee action recommendations , an editor's note, and an events calendar.
Volume 1, number 7 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Newsletter was published on January 10, 1975. Contents include Board meeting excerpts, changes to MLA's approach to passing increased state aid to public libraries, a report of the Government Documents Roundtable, a report of the Public Library Division, a report and survey submitted by the Library Management Roundtable, and the January calendar of events.
Volume 3, number 1 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Newsletter published January, 1976. Topics include announcements and notes of the MLA Board of Directors, President's Memo to members, Academic & Research division, Paraprofessional subcommittee, Minnesota Library Trustee Association (MLTA), Minnesota Association of Law Libraries officers, Continuing Education committee; call for new members; calendar of events 1/5/75-5/12/76.
Volume 3, number 11 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Newsletter was published in November, 1976. Contents include announcement of newly-elected MLA officers, MLA Board meeting notes from September and October, State Board of Education update, MLA resolutions approved, announcement of reduction of MLA Newsletter to nine issues per year, Minnesota Library Trustee Association (MLTA) annual business meeting minutes, recognition systems for continuing education open meeting, FML annual business meeting minutes, and information on Economic Development Administration (EDA) grants for public library buildings.
Volume 3, number 10 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Newsletter was published in October, 1976. Contents include the Annual Book Week program at the University of Minnesota, "Librarian on the move," Library Services to Seniors Rountable minutes, White House Conference of Library and Information Services funding, publication of Video and Cable Communication, Guidelines for Librarians, studies showing women are paid less than men at all levels of library employment, Special Libraries Association scholarship program, calendar of events and a special interest regarding recently passed copyright legislation regarding fair use photocopying with guidelines for implementation.
Volume 2, number 3 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Newsletter published September 3, 1975. Topics include announcements and notes of the MLA Board of Directors meeting, Library Management Round Table, Committee on Unionism & Collective Bargaining, MLA Publication Board named, Senior Citizens Round Table, Special Program Funds available, Wisconsin Philanthropic Foundations Directory available, Technical Services section, Special Library Round Table and new officers named, Professional Welfare Committee, Popular Culture Association's 6th annual meeting, Minnesota Reading Association Fall Conference, and National Employ the Handicapped Week; Friends of Minnesota Libraries dropping MLA Round Table Status; calendar of events 9/8/75-1/1/76; ALA News.
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.
Volume 5, number 5 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in May 1978. Content includes MLA Board meeting notes, corrections to a bylaws change document, information about a book sale at the MLA conference, Minnesota library staff changes and new positions, American Library Association (ALA) Chapter Councilor report, the Minnesota Statewide Library Services Forum's joint statement to present at the Governor's Conference on Library and Information Services, conference program changes, MLA committee, subunit, and division reports, availability of the Directory of Academic Libraries and Librarians, a call for feedback on an MLA general membership directory, availability of a new library directory (Hill Directory of Library and Information Resources of teh Twin City Area), an international bookshop opening, information about an upcoming women library workers national conference, an upcoming Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux workshop, sponsorship of a bike trip to the ALA annual conference, an ALA program available on cassette tape, a Bemidji State University library science course offering, information about MLA Legal Defense Fund open hearings, availability of a new MLA members kit, the calendar of library events, and a library tours and swaps reminder taking place at the next MLA annual conference.
Volume 21, number 4 of the Lakeland Libarian (Librarian in the title was intentionally misspelled as Libarian with an asterisk in place of the first r for this issue) was published in the fall of 1972. This issue includes a recap of the fall annual conference, legislative topics, an obituary for former MLA president Maurine Hoffman, announcement of a contest for renaming the Lakeland Libarian, a fund appeal for dismissed Polk County Library employees Cleo McDonald and Avis Boe, a denial by the Intellectual Freedom Committee for a request for action by Jack Baker, a call for the creation of a legal defense fund, notes from the Intellectual Freedom Committee, letters to the editor, book reviews, trustee notes, and committee reports. The Lakeland Libarian replaced The MLA Bulletin as the official newsletter of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) in 1972, after an appointed publication board became responsible for all Minnesota Library Association publications. The Lakeland Libarian employed a newspaper format, incorporating features such as a letter to the editor column, students' column, trustee's section, want ads, and coverage of statewide events. Following a backlash over the intentional misspelling of the word "librarian" in the title, a contest was held to rename the publication and in the spring of 1973 the Lakeland Libarian became the North Country Librarian.
Volume 1, number 2 of The North Country Librarian was published in the summer of 1973. The issue includes articles on MLA Vice-President and Treasurer nominees, announcement of 1973 annual conference speaker Celeste West, MLA section and committee updates, the MINITEX program, an update from the Office of Public Libraries and Interlibrary Cooperation (OPLIC), Friends of Minnesota Libraries new vice-president Mrs. Richard Edwards, a legislative report, announcement of a pre-Conference screening of the film "Deep Throat" sponsored by the intellectual freedom committee, opposing editorials on the proposed MLA legal defense fund, an editorial on professional job title changes, INFORM (Information for Minnesota), announcement of guest speaker for Minnesota Association of School Librarians meeting, Hennepin County Library's human resource indexing project, the decision not to print an MLA directory, the University of Minnesota Kerlan Collection, a list of 1973 officers and committees, passing of an ALA resolution called the Indian Library and Information Service, and the defense fund procedures proposed by the Professional Welfare committee of MLA. The North Country Librarian (formerly known as the Lakeland Libarian) is the official newsletter of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA), published quarterly. Following a backlash over the intentional misspelling of the word "librarian" in the previous title, Lakeland Libarian, a contest was held to rename the publication and in the spring of 1973 the Lakeland Libarian became the North Country Librarian.
Minnesota Library Association; Panzer Morris, Adele (editor)
Date Created:
1979-05
Description:
Volume 5 number 5 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Newsletter was published in May, 1979. Contents include a report from the MLA Board of Directors, an update on legislation relevant to libraries, a report on MLA's first "newcomer's day," a report of the Planning and Development Committee, reports from the Library Research and Special Libraries Roundtables, a report from the Public Library Division's Conference Call Committee on the feasibility of a statewide conference telephone system, a report on the Minnesota Statewide Library Services Forum, a announcement of the hiring of a new faculty member at the Library School of the University of Minnesota, information on the Public Libraries Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, information on academic library internships and a training program for academic library consultants, the schedule for the upcoming MFLA Conference, the ballot results on a vote of individual ALA members to reaffirm a contract to meet at the Palmer House in Chicago for the Midwinter 1980 meeting, information on the ALA annual meeting, and a calendar of events.
Minnesota Library Association; Wulff, L. Yvonne (editor)
Date Created:
1977
Description:
Volume 4, number 1 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in December 1976 - January 1977. Content includes upcoming library conference information, a report of the Library Futures Task Force to the MLA Board of Directors and MLA's reactions, Library Services to Seniors Roundtable meeting summary, a membership drive for Polish American Librarians Association, the reactivation of the MLA Planning and Development Committee, MLA librarian of the year announcement, upcoming committee and roundtable events, MLA legislative support team signup, and program and procedures for the MLA Professional Welfare Committee.
Minnesota Library Association; Wulff, L. Yvonne (editor)
Date Created:
1978-01
Description:
Volume 5, number 1 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in January 1978. Content includes an announcement about the new MLA Executive Director, November 1978 MLA Board meeting notes, a new members incentive, the MLA Academic Division 1977 annual report, OPLIC's resume file, librarian updates, a call for suggestions for changing the name of the Paraprofessional Round Table, a summary of a meeting of five library associations in Minnesota to establish a statewide library service forum, corections and a note from the editor, availability of a publication called Our Minnesota Index, a bibliography of copyright law and libraries, the MLA legal defense fund, children's program ideas, Specil Libraries Round Table meeting announcement, the Louise Giles Minority Scholarship Program, a free film series at the University of Minnesota, a report from the MLA continuing education committee, Twin Cities Education Resources Round Table program listings, an announcement about the MLA leadership retreat, a call for Friends of the Library handout materials, good news on postal legislation, and a legislative call to action for LSCA Title I funding,
Minnesota Library Association; Wulff, Yvonne L. (editor)
Date Created:
1977
Description:
Volume 4, number 7 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in July-August 1977. Content includes MLA June and July board meeting notes, minutes for the Libraries in Service to Seniors (LISTS) Roundtable meeting, rationale for experimenting with changing the MLA annual conference date, calendar of events, proposed by-laws for the Public Library Division, MLA legislative and government activities task force summary, Environmental Conservation Library (ECOL) funding update, and Intellectual Freedom Committee summer agenda
Looking upwards at the turret on the Turnblad mansion. Completed in 1908, the Swan J. Turnblad mansion was built in the French Chateauesque style. The house became the American Swedish Institute in 1929.
Aerial view of downtown Minneapolis from the roof of the Hennepin County Government Center facing south. I-35W freeway is near top left; Curtis Hotel near center; Minneapolis Auditorium near top right.
Interior of the Brooklyn Center branch of the Hennepin County Library system. Three people are reading at study tables. A wood-burning stove and rack of magazines are visible.
Program on the north balcony of the Hennepin County Government Center showing items to go into the Government Center time capsule. The item being shown is a design for a U. S. bicentennial quarter created by Seth G. Huntington of Minneapolis. The design eventually was used for the bicentennial half dollar. Right, in sunglasses: Hennepin County Public Affairs Director Ted Farrington. Behind microphone: Hennepin County Commissioner Tom Olson. Next to Olson, in white suit: Hennepin County Commissioner Thomas Ticen. Far left: Hennepin County Commissioner Richard O. Hanson.
While Hennepin County Commissioner Tom Olson speaks before a crowd on the north balcony of Hennepin County Government Center, Hennepin County Public Affairs Director Ted Farrington prepares to add a copy of the book "Good Neighbor to the Northwest 1924 - 1974," a history of WCCO radio, to a time capsule box.
Line of young men in hallway of Minneapolis City Hall, also known as Municipal Building and the Old Courthouse. Signs for "Court Room Judge Winton" and "Veterans Service Officer" are visible on wall.