Volume 11, number 3 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) bulletin was published in March 1962. Content includes announcements of upcoming events including MLA Reference section meeting, the annual Career Festival, district meetings, MLA annual conference, Midwest Academic Libraries Conference, and National Library Week kick-off dinner.
Volume 12, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) bulletin was published in March 1963. Content includes a listing and program schedule for spring district meetings, the resignation of MLA vice-president and president-elect Raymond E. Williams and the subsequent extension of MLA president George Gardner's term, MLA Reference Section spring dinner meeting, MLA College Section meeting, Tri-State Regional Library Conference event notice.
Volume 13, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) bulletin was published in March 1964. Content includes announcement of East Central Library of Minnesota as recipient of a national library award: Book-of-the-Month Awards program Main Award. Additional content includes a spring district meetings list, a call for a documents librarians directory, National Library Week projects, Tri-State Regional Conference follow-up, and MLA membership form.
Volume 14, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) bulletin was published in March 1965. Content includes a briefing on the MLA Intellectual Freedom Committee, 1965 spring district meeting details, and MLA Section meeting details.
Volume 15, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) bulletin was published in March 1966. Topics include call for nominations of 1966 Minnesota Librarian of the Year and Trustee of the Year; National Library Week recap; announcements of 1966 MLA Conference announcement, Canadian author-librarian, Dorothy M. Reid set to speak at library conference, Midwest Academic Librarians Conference, Library-Labor Institute, Spring district meetings, 1967 North Central Library Conference, and testimonal dinner for Hannis Smith.
Volume 17, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in March 1968. Contents include information on the First Governor's Conference on Library Service, the Treasurer's report, a message from the President of the Trustee Section, a call for nominations for Librarian of the Year and Trustee of the Year, the roster of the National Library Association Steering Committee, a nomination form for Librarian and Trustee of the Year, and a call for MLA members to work to defeat copyright legislation in S. 597.
Volume 16, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLS) Bulletin was published in March 1967. Contents include news on the passage of the Interstate LIbrary Compact and the Governor's request for aid to public libraries, information on the upcoming North Central Library Conference held in Milwaukee, a list of Spring District meetings, information on the Fourth Extension Library Workshop, a call for nominations for Librarian of the Year and Trustee of the Year, a membership renewal form, a message from the Trustee Section President, and a nomination form for Librarian and of the Year.
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 14, number 3 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) bulletin was published in May 1965. Content includes a MLA 1965 fall conference preview, call for nominations for Minnesota Librarian of the Year and Trustee of the Year awards, National Library Week follow-up, new MLA chairman appointments, establishment of MLA Retirement Committee, and MLA membership tally.
Volume 11, number 1 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) bulletin was published in November 1961. Content includes a list of MLA officers and chairmen, opening of Minnesota's third regional library, National Library Week planning, and a revised MLA budget.
Volume 16, number 4 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in November, 1967. Contents include results of the MLA officers election, announcement of MLA Midwinter Meeting, a list of MLA award winners, an announcement of the 1968 MLA Annual Conference, a list of MLA officers, and an announcement about National Library Week.
Volume 18, number 4 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published October-December 1969. Contents include a message from the MLA President, a 1969 MLA annual conference report, minutes from the MLA business meeting, a National Library Week announcement, a cooperative projects newsletter, a retirement announcement, MLA section and committee reports, a list of MLA officers, and an events calendar.
Volume 20, number 4 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in September 1971. Contents include a 1971 fall conference announcement with program information, MLA officer nominees (including photos), a call to nominate ALA trustees, volunteer program considerations, a library administration division meeting on insurance, an MLA bylaws committee final report, and other MLA section and committee reports.
Volume 19, number 4 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in September 1970. Contents include a look at libraries and the issues in the 1970s, a MLA business meeting agenda, request from U.S. Treasury to access Minnesota circulation records, MLA officer candidates (and pictures) for 1970, library certification in Minnesota, MLA section and committee reports, proposed bylaws, an editor's note, and an events calendar.
The Pre-conference newsletter issue of the Lakeland Libarian (Librarian in the title was intentionally misspelled as Libarian) was published in September of 1972. The issue includes reports of business meeting agenda items and planned activities of the Academic Libraries Division, the Public Libraries Division, the Adult Services Section, the Children and Young People's Section, the Reference Section, the Technical Services Section, the Minnesota Social Responsibilities Round Table, the Intellectual Freedom Committee, the Minnesota Library Trustees Association, the Professional Welfare Committee, and other program notes. 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 Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in April 1952. Contents include a list of upcoming district and section meetings, information about the 1952 MLA annual conference, and reports of the Membership Committee, the Joint Planning Committee, the Public Relations Committee, and the ALA Councilor.
Volume 8, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) bulletin was published in April 1959. Content includes library legislation news, announcements regarding MLA district meetings and the 1959 MLA annual conference, and the naming of the University of Minnesota's Walter Library.
Volume 7, number 3 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) bulletin was published in August 1958. Content includes discussion of the annual MLA conference theme, Minnesota library news at the annual American Library Association (ALA) conference, funding allotment of the Library Services Act, and National Newspaper Week participation.
Volume 2, number 1 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in December 1952. Contents include a list of Officers, Section Chairmen and Committee Members, the 1952-1953 MLA budget, a call for applications for the MLA Scholarship, reports from the Legislative, Public Relations and Activities Committees, and a list of members of the State Board of Education.
Volume 1, number 1 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in December of 1951. Contents of the newsletter include a list of the MLA Executive Committee and committee chairs, the 1951-1952 MLA budget, news of budget increases and building progress at member libraries, and dates and location of the 1952 MLA annual conference.
Volume 3, number 1 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in December, 1953. Contents include a list of Executive Officers, Section Chairmen and Committee Chairmen, the Membership Committee report, the Trustee Section report, the Financial Report for 1952-1953, the budget for 1953-1954, the Legislative Committee report, excerpts from the report of the Committee on Intellectual Freedom presented at the 1953 MLA conference, and a call to action to support the Korean-Unesco Stamp Project.
Volume 7, number 1 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) bulletin was published in December 1957. Content includes preparations for MLA's participation in the third annual Career Festival, Minnesota Centennial, and National Library Week. Also includes a message from Senator Hubert H. Humphrey to the MLA and an annual MLA budget.
Volume 1, number 3 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in July 1952. Contents include a preliminary schedule for the 1952 MLA annual conference, a call for applications for the MLA Scholarship, suggested readings on censorship, and a brief report on the district meetings.
Volume 2, number 3 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in July, 1953. Contents include the President's report, a tentative program schedule for the 1953 MLA annual conference, the Legislative Committee report, the Vice President's report on the MLA district meetings, and a report on the Spring County Library Conference.
Volume 3, number 3 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in June 1954. The contents include the announcement of a special MLA meeting hosted by members of the Legislative Committee, announcement of the district meetings, information about the ALA annual conference being held in Minneapolis, various brief committee reports, a submission from the chair of the Committee on Library Work as a Career, and a report from the World Affairs Center's meeting on UN Charter reform.