Volume 17, number 3 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in June 1968. Contents include information about what to look for in a trustee board member, a reminder about library award nominations, a MLA convention announcement, National Library Week, and the recommendations from the Governor's Conference on Library Service.
Volume 9, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) bulletin was published in March 1960. Content contains announcements of various local events including ALA annual conference, a career festival, Twin City Library Club reception, MLA Reference Section dinner meeting, and a National Library week event.
Volume 10, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) bulletin was published in March 1961. Content includes MLA legislation news, National Library week event planning, local event announcements, MLA district meetings, MLA conference planning, and funding awarded to local libraries.
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 document is an overview of the Fact Finder radio program, which ran continuously every week from Oct. 5, 1938 - June 30, 1939. The main goal of the program was to entertain and instruct as much as possible. The radio scripts were written by members of the Minnesota Library Association radio committee in the Minneapolis Public Library.
Program for the First Midwest Library Conference and Exhibit held on November 3-5, 1971 at the Sherman House in Chicago, Illinois. The conference was sponsored by the Library Associations of Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin in conjunction with Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri. The banquet speaker was satirist Richard Armour. Program topics include data processing for libraries, library service to the unserved, continuing education for librarians, libraries and the political process, and faculty status for academic librarians.
Program for the 3rd Governor's State Conference on Children and Youth, held at May 9-10, 1952 at the Nicollet Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Events include keynote address by Govenor C. Elmer Anderson, on "Minnesota's Program for Children and Youth," panel discussions, youth council meetings, and showing of two civil defense films, "Duck and Cover" and "The Cities Must Fight." Includes biographical information on conference personnel, and lists of panel members, state wide youth groups, cooperating civic and professional organizations, and local youth commissions and councils.
Report of the Governor's Third State Conference on Children and Youth, held May 9-10, 1952 at the Nicollet Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Chaired by Dr. Christianson, topics discussed included mental health for children, preventions and treatment of juvenile deliquency, community services, the defense of youth and the formation of youth councils.
Program for the Joint Conference of the Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin Library Associations, held October 18-21, 1939 at the Hotel Schroeder in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The theme is "Rural Social Problems: Their Implications for Librarians." Program includes general sessions and meetings of the catalog, lending, reference, children's and school librarian's sections, and the public , hospital, college and university, and special libraries sections. Includes member lists of the executive board, committee chairmen, and section and round table chairmen for each state association, along with exhibitors. Includes insert for "Daze Without End," a marionette program presented to the conference by staff of the Minneapolis Public Library.
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.
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 21, number 2 of the Lakeland Libarian (Librarian in the title was intentionally misspelled as Libarian) was published in the spring of 1972. This issue includes an announcement of a change in format for the newsletter, editor's column, meeting minutes, roster of the division chairs, section announcements, and biographies of ALA councilor candidates and study opportunities. Also included is an insert by the Intellectual Freedom Committee for reporting complaints against library materials. 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.