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1. 1909 Wisconsin-Minnesota Library Meeting, Superior-Duluth, [Wisconsin-Minnesota]

Creator:
Wisconsin Library Association
Date Created:
1909
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Programs

2. Interview with Nancy Walton, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Walton, Nancy
Date Created:
2013-01-10
Description:
Nancy Walton worked in Minnesota, Maryland, California, and Morocco before returning to Minnesota. In Minnesota, she started out at the Minnesota Braille and Talking Book Library (1994-1998), State Library Programs Specialist (1998-2010), and ended her career by serving as State Librarian and Director of State Library Services (2010-2013). In her interview, she touches on her first experience working in her school library as a member of the Library Club at Minneapolis's Washburn High School to working as a Peace Corp volunteer in Rabat, Morocco (1971-1974), to working within State Library Services. Other topics touched on in her interview include: working in the Ames Collection in Wilson Library (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) next to Minitex staff in 1969; working with Bill DeJohn (Minitex Director, 1984-2012); her role as State Librarian in providing equity of access to information and resources; the 1994 expansion of the Minnesota Braille and Talking Book Library in Faribault; the 2002 closing of the library for the Minnesota Department of Children, Families, and Learning and layoffs of State Library staff; the disbursement of State Library Services professional library collection to St. Catherine University's School of Library and Information Science; the long history of the State Library Services and the Regional Public Library systems in Minnesota, and words of wisdom to library staff today. This interview also includes an audio recording, recording table of contents, transcript, and photograph of the interviewee.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

3. Interview with Mary Treacy, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Treacy, Mary
Date Created:
2010-11-18
Description:
Mary Treacy is former director of Metronet (1981-1999), one of seven state-funded multitype library networks created by the Minnesota Legislature in 1979. During her interview, Mary describes her first job as a librarian at Washington D.C. Teacher's College (1965) in a post Brown v Board of Education climate; emerging technologies, such as beta testing ERIC on microfiche; The Twin Cities Library Club; the 1982 Metronet sponsored conference, ""Question of Balance, Public Sector/Private Sector Interaction in the Delivery of Information Services""; the role of Metronet and Minitex; starting a college library at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (1999); SMILE (Southcentral Minnesota Inter-Library Exchange) before funding was available for multitype library networks, and her time at the ALA Washington office (1996). This interview also includes an audio recording, recording table of contents, transcript, and photograph of the interviewee.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

4. Interview with Roger Sween, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Sween, Roger
Date Created:
2011-06-30
Description:
Roger Sween began his professional library career in Wisconsin at UW-Platteville before moving back to Minnesota in the mid-1970s. He worked at Red Wing Public Library and St. Cloud State University Library before he joined State Library Services, Minnesota Department of Education as library cooperation specialist from 1984-2000. In the interview Roger Sween talks about his first library job as a student working in Rolvaag Memorial Library at St. Olaf; events in Minnesota that led to the development of Minitex; evolution of the multicounty, multitype library systems in Minnesota; his work with the Minnesota Educational Media Organization (MEMO) and creation of the first school library media standards (2000) in the state; and involvement in a 1984 report on economic vitality that resulted in the theme of the American Library Association Annual Conference and the Minnesota Library Annual Conference. This interview also includes an audio recording, recording table of contents, transcript, and photograph of the interviewee.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

5. Interview with Mary Rae Oxborrow, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Oxborrow, Mary Rae
Date Created:
2011-05-26
Description:
Mary Rae Oxborrow was one of the first full-time professional staff to be hired at Minitex in 1969. In the interview she describes what is was like to work with Minitex's first director, Alice Wilcox; her main role at Minitex in bibliographic problem solving; a Halloween South Dakota trip gone bad on Needles Highway near Rapid City; early technology used at Minitex for sending interlibrary loan requests (for example, teletype machines); staff parties; Minitex office locations during the pilot project and beyond; and the first Minitex logo, the winged messenger. This interview also includes an audio recording, recording table of contents, transcript, and photograph of the interviewee.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

6. Interview with Rosemary Mock, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Mock, Rosemary
Date Created:
2012-08-31
Description:
Rosie Mock started and ended her library career at Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato (1969-2012). In her interview, she discusses what it was like to work in Cataloging in the 1970s, before automation, and in Systems. Other topics touched on include: early OCLC searching (1976), development of the PALS online catalog (1980), using early electronic databases such as Dialog, and the migration from the PALS system to the Aleph ILS (2004). This interview also includes an audio recording, recording table of contents, transcript, and photograph of the interviewee.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

7. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, September 1977

Creator:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

8. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, October 1977

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Wulff, L. Yvonne (editor)
Date Created:
1977-10
Description:
Volume 4, number 9 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in October 1977. Content includes library award recipient announcements, 10 principles for statewide library services, MLA September board meeting notes, calendar of events, MLA membership resolutions, annual reports from MLA divisions and roundtables, and a job posting for MLA executive director position.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

9. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, May 1977

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Wulff, L. Yvonne (editor)
Date Created:
1977-05
Description:
Volume 4, number 5 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in May 1977. Content includes MLA March board meeting notes, MLA Mid-winter Conference Report, Library Management Roundtable calendar, grant funding announcement for a Minitex serials project, MLA calendar of events, ways for libraries to celebrate Older Americans Month, and a call for nominations for MLA librarian of the year and trustee of the year awards.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

10. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, March 1977

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Wulff, L. Yvonne (editor)
Date Created:
1977-03
Description:
Volume 4, number 3 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in March 1977. Content includes an MLA goal statement for new membership drive, the establishment of the Joint House/Senate Education Subcommittee on Libraries, MLA board meeting notes for December and January, roundtable meeting announcements, and Futures Task Force updates.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

11. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, June 1977

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Wulff, L. Yvonne (editor)
Date Created:
1977-06
Description:
Volume 4, number 6 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in June 1977. Content includes MLA May board meeting notes, minutes for the Special Libraries Roundtable, MLA Paraprofessional Roundtable, and Libraries in Service to Seniors (LISTS) Roundtable meetings, workshops on biological and chemistry databases, MLA Legislative Committee news, calendar of events, and MLA fall conference grant application.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

12. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, December 1976/January 1977

Creator:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

13. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, December 1977

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Wulff, L. Yvonne (editor)
Date Created:
1977-12
Description:
Volume 4, number 10 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in December 1977. Content includes MLA October meeting notes, MLA directory, calendar events, the first meeting of Minnesota Statewide Library Association Forum, MLA roundtable updates, Reference and Adult Services section annual report, and MLA Continuing Education committee meeting announcement.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

14. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, April 1977

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Wulff, L. Yvonne (editor)
Date Created:
1977-04
Description:
Volume 4, number 4 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in April 1977. Content includes MLA board meeting minutes, ALA 1977 Midwinter meeting councilor's report, a calendar of colloquia from the Library School, University of Minnesota, and spring workshop and roundtable meeting announcements.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

15. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, September 1978

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Kovel-Jarboe, Patricia (editor)
Date Created:
1978-08
Description:
Volume 5, number 8 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in September, 1978. Content includes minutes from the August MLA Board meeting, a save the date for the fall MLA conference business meeting, new faculty at the University of Minnesota Library School, an upcoming panel discussion on public library financing, copies of documents from the library forum, MLA committee, subunit, and division reports amd minutes, an announcement about the new MLA Paraprofessional Round Table (PALS), a call for Minnesota humanities commission award nominations, a new course offered on library services for the handicapped, an announcement about the upcoming American Library Association (ALA) Library and Information Technology Association institute, information about a new academic library program that will assist academic libraries conducting self-study programs, an advertisement for the MLA Technical Services Division pre-conference on trends in Acquisitions and Collection Development, a lilst of MLA members who hold American Library Association official positions, library job announcements, status of legislation of interest to librarians, an invitation to attend a showing of the film "The Speaker," the MLA Academic Library Division annual program announcement, an upcoming workshop on library services to teens, a call to serve on the MLA publications committee, an upcoming seminar on the issues and problems of evaluating reference services, new library books, directories, and resources, and a calendar of upcoming library events.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

16. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, October 1978

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Kovel-Jarboe, Patricia (editor)
Date Created:
1978-09
Description:
Volume 5, number 9 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in October, 1978. Topics include: minutes from the September MLA Board meeting, MLA members asked to cast new ballots, MLA membership figures, an upcoming idea exchange, upcoming humanities planning meetings, job announcements, Academic and Research Division of MLA annual meeting speakers, results of postcard survey about Midwest Federation of Library Associations attendance by the membership, a registration form to attend an upcoming workshop on library service to teenagers, changes to the calendar "Educational Events," MLA members quoted in censorship Star Tribune article, an invitation to attend a talk by Henriette Avram from the Library of Congress, an insert of the quarterly publication Educational Events," a save the date for the MLA spring conference, changes to the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter meeting, proceedings of an ALA program on reference service statistics, a summary of the Minnesota Governor's Pre-White House Conference on Library and Information Services, MLA subunit and division event announcements and summaries, an upcoming book week program at the University of Minnesota, and a calendar of upcoming library community events.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

17. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, November 1978

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Kovel-Jarboe, Patricia (editor)
Date Created:
1978-11
Description:
Volume 5, number 10 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in November, 1978. Topics include: minutes from the October MLA Board meeting, volunteers sought for KTCA membership drive, new MLA membership forms, upcoming library community events, MLA subunit and division event announcements and summaries, suggestions for appointments to ALA committees requested, Louise Giles Minority Scholarship available, a British Isles library internship program, free copies of the USGPO's Publications Reference File available, announcemeent of an upcoming community college conference, an upcoming workshop about citizens and effective political power, findings from the ALA survey on libraries and reading, and a calendar of upcoming library community events.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

18. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, May 1978

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Kovel-Jarboe, Patricia (editor)
Date Created:
1978-05
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

19. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, June 1978

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Kovel-Jarboe, Patricia (editor)
Date Created:
1978-06
Description:
Volume 5, number 6 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in June 1978. Content includes a summary of the 1978 MLA Annual Conference, an order form for MLA Lectio Mentem Corrumpit (Reading Corrupts the Mind) tshirts, a call for authors to write about the history and current state of Intellectual Freedom in Minnesota, a call for interest in a Library Storage Facilities program planned for the 1979 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, a meeting summary of the Minnestoa Coalition Against Censorship, an announcement of France H. Naftalin's nomination by President Carter to serve on the national Commission on Libraries and Information Service, an upcoming meeting on library paraprofessional benefits, an announcement about an upcoming Wisconsin Health Science Library Association meeting, "Minnesota to caucus at ALA," MLA committee, subunit, and division reports, the passing of Alice Stahl and a call to contribute to a fund in her memory, Minnesota library staff news, awards given at the 1978 MLA Annual Conference, new library reference books and resources, a call for feedback on MLA sponsoring job interviews at the next annual conference, a proposed model for Minnesota statewide library services, summaries of other regional and national library conferences, information about the MLA new member kits, Council on Library Resources fellowship program continuation and how to apply, "Librarians Put it all Together" tshirt order instructions, and an MLA calendar of events.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

20. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, February 1978

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Kovel-Jarboe, Patricia (editor)
Date Created:
1978-02
Description:
Volume 5, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in February 1978. Content includes the MLA January board meeting notes, minutes from a December 1977 MLA Long Range Planning and Development Committee meeting, information about the Midwest library job hotline, new members of the MLA Membership Committee, a call for poster sessions at the upcoming MLA annual conference, a St. Paul Foundation grant to the Children's Literature Research Collection at the University of Minnesota, library staff announcements, the date of Minnesota precinct caucuses, a list of funding amounts for library and related programs, a call for Kerlan Award nominees, a call for MLA Board nominations, updates from MLA committees and subunits, an MLA legislative alert, MLA membership cards announcement, a list of MLA awards and criteria, a calendar of events, a proposal for two new roundtables (Young Adults and Library Research), a workshop kit for loan on library security, a call for entries for the Library Public Relations Council competition for excellence in library publicity, and the 1979 theme for the MFLA Conference "People: Our Most Important Resource."
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

21. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, December 1978

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Kovel-Jarboe, Patricia (editor)
Date Created:
1978-12
Description:
Volume 5, number 11 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in December 1978. Topics include: minutes from the MLA midwinter conference business meeting, proposed statements for the 1979 MLA legislative platform, MLA subunit and division event announcements and summaries, 3M sponsorship to send members of the American Library Association (ALA) Junior Members Roundtable to ALA
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

22. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, August 1978

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Kovel-Jarboe, Patricia (editor)
Date Created:
1978-06
Description:
Volume 5, number 7 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in August, 1978. Content includes minutes from the June MLA Board meeting, an annual conference summary, MLA committee, subunit, and division reports amd minutes, a call for MLA volunteers, the American Library Association (ALA) Chapter Councilor's report, summaries of other regional and national library conferences, Minnesota library staff news, new library reference books and directories, a directory of MLA members and how they're involved in ALA, grants available for library school students to attend state library conferences, and a calendar of upcoming library events.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

23. Minnesota Library Association Newsletter, April 1978

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association; Kovel-Jarboe, Patricia (editor)
Date Created:
1978-04
Description:
Volume 5, number 4 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in April 1978. Content includes a description of the Legal Defense Fund for library workers, a nomination form for MLA awards, updates from MLA divisions and subunits, a call for conference delegates for the Conference on Library and Information Services, an American Library Association offer for new members, an update on the next MLA midwinter meeting, an advertisement for the AV Source Directory, an announcement about a College of St. Catherine course on storytelling, and a library calendar of events.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

24. 1947 Upper Midwest Regional Library conference program, Minneapolis, MN

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association
Date Created:
1947
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Programs

25. MLA Newsletter, April 10, 1975

Creator:
Minnesota Library Association
Date Created:
1975-04
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Historical Society
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters
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