Minnesota Library Association; Setre, Evelyn (co-editor); Wiita, Mae M. (co-editor)
Date Created:
1942-06
Description:
Volume 3, number 5 of the of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Peddler was published in June 1942. Co-editors were Evelyn Setre and Mae M. Wiita. This issue contains a call for library outreach, announcement of American Library Association conference in Milwaukee, announcement of display contest winner, guest column from the librarian at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, listing of University of Minnesota Alumni Association officers, design sketch for the display contest winning entry, column by the publicity chairman, member notes, and entry information for the continuing war information bulletin board display contest. The M.L.A Peddler was created and conceived by the Junior members of the Minnesota Library Association. The first issue states "...[The] Peddler will bring you bits of personal gossip, news about library enterprises, [and] matters of friendly interest."
Minnesota Library Association; Ellsworth, Mary (editor)
Date Created:
1943-03
Description:
Volume 4, number 1 of the of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Peddler was published in March 1943. Editor-in-chief was Mary Ellsworth of the Minneapolis Public Library. This issue contains announcements of new job appointments for members, president's message, war activities in Duluth, regional news, University library news and listing of the Minnesota Library Association Committee appointments for 1943. The M.L.A Peddler was created and conceived by the Junior members of the Minnesota Library Association. The first issue states "...[The] Peddler will bring you bits of personal gossip, news about library enterprises, [and] matters of friendly interest."
Minnesota Library Association; Boardman, Neil S. (editor)
Date Created:
1941-03
Description:
Volume 3, number 1 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Peddler was published in March 1941. Editor-in-chief of this issue was Neil S. Boardman. This issue contains the official MLA directory, a message from the MLA president, announcement of a prison library directory, information about a library personnel survey, travel notes, MLA Annual meeting announcement, junior members section annual dues change, Minnesota library staff changes and library updates, library poetry, a book review of Library on the Air (an anthology of library radio programs), and a crossword puzzle. The M.L.A Peddler was created and conceived by the Junior members of the Minnesota Library Association. The first issue states "...[The] Peddler will bring you bits of personal gossip, news about library enterprises, [and] matters of friendly interest."
Volume 1, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Peddler was published in May 1939 (three pages). Marion Shafer from Minneapolis Public Library [presumed editor] requests news items be sent to her. Section headings in this issue are department store references, including Window Shopping, Housewares, Play togs, Front Office, Lay-by, Drugs & Toiletries, Notions, Men Furnishings, and Going Up., and contain MLA news items about people and current activities. News includes Items about the Cloquet Public Library Summer Reading Program, St. Paul Public Library Children's Room Miniatures display, St. Paul Public Library display at the recent Festival of Nations, Hutchinson Public Library Amateur Photographer's Show, Duluth Public Library Reference Room displays of wild flowers and the Camera Club and portraits of the new pope, Minneapolis Public Library Music Week display, and the MLA Legislative Program that recently failed. Notes about MLA member travels, engagements, and social news, and MLA Stag Section (men only) are included.
Minnesota Library Association; Baker, Mary C. (editor)
Date Created:
1940-05
Description:
Volume 2, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Peddler was published in May 1940. Editor-in-chief of this issue was Mary C. Baker from Duluth Public Library. This issue contains information on the American Library Association (ALA) meeting in Cinncinnati from May 26-June 1 of that year, including a Minnesota Alumni Breakfast and a Junior Member Round Table (JMRT) exhibit, Arrowhead Library Association meeting announcement, Minneapolis Library endowment fund announcement, stags annual outing announcement, local indexes project, reference questions, miscellaneous news briefs about Minnesota librarians, Minneapolis book club, children's memorial library, new branches and stations, and the tentative program for the MLA Convention from October 20-23, 1940. The M.L.A Peddler was created and conceived by the Junior members of the Minnesota Library Association. The first issue states ""...[The] Peddler will bring you bits of personal gossip, news about library enterprises, [and] matters of friendly interest.""
Minnesota Library Association; Baker, Mary C. (editor)
Date Created:
1940-10
Description:
Volume 2, number 3 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Peddler was published in October 1940. Editor-in-chief of this issue was Mary C. Baker from Duluth Public Library. The M.L.A Peddler was created and conceived by the Junior members of the Minnesota Library Association. This issue contains information on Minneapolis book club, a Northwest States book, art, and gift show, St. Paul memorial funds, the MLA fall meeting, Duluth public library, Arrowhead Library Club, new departments in St. Paul libraries, library news around the state, radio program "Once in Minnesota," Chisholm's vacation reading club, planning committee report, and a memorial to Miss Louise Lamb
Volume 3, number 6 of the of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Peddler was published in September 1942. Editor-in-chief was Mae M. Wiita from St. Cloud. This issue contains the program agenda for the Minnesota LIbrary Association's 50th Anniversary Convention, listing of Minnesota Library Association officers, section chairmen and committee chairmen, biographies of convention speakers, member news, institutional library news and book recommendations. The M.L.A Peddler was created and conceived by the Junior members of the Minnesota Library Association. The first issue states "...[The] Peddler will bring you bits of personal gossip, news about library enterprises, [and] matters of friendly interest."
Volume 1, number 3 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Peddler was published in September 1939 (eight pages). Sponsored by the Minnesota Library Association, the Editor-in-chief is Andre Nielsen, Minneapolis, Regional editors are Alberta Seiz, Red Wing and Virginia Grady, Duluth, and Circulation Manager is LeMoyne Perry, Minneapolis. This issue is dedicated to the upcoming Tri-State (Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin) Convention to be held at the Hotel Schroeder in Milwaukee, WI, October 18-21, 1939, and includes travel costs, schedules, accommodations, and the tentative program. Issue also includes a note from the MLA President, Ruth Rosholt, and a section entitled Library Potporri, including news of Gratia Countryman's cornerstone dedication speech at the Champlain Library, Appointments (job notes), Travel, Stag Section (Male MLA members), Marriages, and News Around the State. Minnesota News includes an update on the Newspaper Indexing Project under the supervision of Gratia Countryman, and the Microfilming section working on the Minneapolis Journal (1878-1939).
Minnesota Library Association; Boardman, Neil S. (editor)
Date Created:
1941-09
Description:
Volume 3, number 3 of the of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Peddler was published in September 1941. The editor in chief was Neil S. Boardman. This issue contains the program schedule for the 49th annual conference on October 2-4, biographies of conference presenters, news items about members and library activities, marriage and birth notices, travel accounts, Minneapolis Public Library and St. Paul Public Library radio program schedule, employment transfer notices, Children's Book Week announcement, secretary's column, and a book review. The M.L.A Peddler was created and conceived by the Junior members of the Minnesota Library Association. The first issue states "...[The] Peddler will bring you bits of personal gossip, news about library enterprises, [and] matters of friendly interest."
Notes from the pre-conference of the Minnesota Library Association annual conference, which took place September 30 - October 1, 1949. Content included a round table discussion on the following: general information about the Public Library Inquiry report, the library public and information for library trustees, a summary of the general characteristics of librarians, and extension of library service.
Minnesota Library Association; Shipman, Frances R.
Date Created:
1944
Description:
Letter from the Minnesota Library Association Radio Representative Frances R. Shipman to Secretary Marian Phillips reporting on activities for the 1943-1944 year. Activities included the arrangement of contestants for the Twin Cities Radio Quiz of November 1, 1943, which included members of the Minneapolis and St. Paul Public Libraries. Contest winnings were donated to the Children's Memorial Library Fund.
Program for the Minnesota Library Association regional conference held at Stearns County Library, St. Cloud, Minnesota, on November 3, 1945. Topics included: ALA standards for libraries, library work with the disabled, county and regional libraries, a layman's view of county libraries, the place of libraries in home planning, and an afternoon session on Norwegian folklore and folkways.
Program description of the MLA (Minnesota Library Association) school and children's librarians luncheon at the Women's City Club, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 12, 1935. The guest speaker for the event was Mrs. Caroline Dale Snedeker
Program for Minnesota Library Association members given by Hibbing Concert Band on September 17, 1920. Includes list of musical selections played, and information and statistics about the city of Hibbing, Minnesota, the Mahoning and Hull-Rust mines, and the Hibbing Public Library with a list of the library board members and library staff.
Notes from the 12th annual conference of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) held on October 27-28 in Mankato, Minnesota. Mr. C. E. Wise, president of the Mankato Library Board, provided the welcoming address. Presentations were given on the topics of reference service in small libraries, county extension of library services in rural areas, reading for children, a report from the Committee on State Documents, and conducting a library on $1000 a year. Six resolutions are recorded and a list of elected officers is included.
Program description for the joint conference of the Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin Library Associations. The program took place on October 18-21st, 1939 at the Hotel Schroeder in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The theme was "Rural Social Problems: Their Implications for Libraries." In addition to general sessions, the conference included a presentation on rural social problems and implications for libraries by Lowry Nelson (Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota), a presentation by Essae M. Culver (President-Elect, American Library Association) and Charles H. Brown (Chairman, Third Activities Committee, A.L.A.), a gallery tour of American Humor at the Milwaukee-Downer College Library, banquet speaker Howard Y. McClusky (Assistant to Vice-President in charge of Adult Education, University of Michigan) on the topic of capitalizing a community's resources, and closing session speaker Dr. Max Lerner (Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.).
Announcement of Minnesota's 1st Govenor's Conference on Library Service, scheduled April, 22, 1968 at the Hilton Hotel, St. Paul, Minnesota. A major project of the Minnesota National Library Week Committee, this meeting is chaired by Rod Searle, with featured speaker is John C. Frantz, Director of the Brooklyn Public Library, on the topic of "Library Needs in a Changing World." Interest areas include special, public, academic, and school libraries, and library trustees. Particants will take part in discussion groups on various topics including library design, service and hours.
Announcement of Minnesota's 1st Govenor's Conference on Library Service, scheduled April, 22, 1968 at the Hilton Hotel, St. Paul, Minnesota. Planned by the Minnesota National Library Week Steering Committee, the featured speaker is John C. Frantz, Director of the Brooklyn Public Library, on the topic of "Library Needs in a Changing World." Also featured is promotion of financial assistance provided by the Library Services and Construction Act.
Program for the 1st Governor's Conference on Library Service, held April 22, 1968 at the Hilton Hotel, St. Paul, Minnesota, in recognition of 1968 National Library Week. Presided over by State Representative Rod Searle of Waseca, Minnesota. Presentations made on school, academic, special, and public libraries, and trustees, with John C. Frantz, Director of the Brooklyn, New York, Public Library speaking on "Library Needs in a Changing World."
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.
Minnesota National Library Week Committee for 1968
Date Created:
1968
Description:
Announcement of Minnesota's 1st Governor's Conference on Library Service, scheduled April, 22, 1968 at the Hilton Hotel, St. Paul, Minnesota. A major project of the Minnesota National Library Week Committee, meeting is chaired by Rod Searle, with featured speaker is John C. Frantz, Director of the Brooklyn Public Library, on the topic of "Library Needs in a Changing World." Interest areas include special, public, academic, and school libraries, and library trustees. Particants will take part in discussion groups on various topics including library needs and service and present recommendations at the end of the meeting.
One of a series of radio scripts written by the Radio Committee of the Minnesota Library Association for a weekly radio program broadcast throughout Minnesota. This program was broadcast on September 29, 1938. Questions and topics discussed in the broadcast include: What are the colors of Johns Hopkins University, Why is the Wisconsin football team nicknamed the Badgers, the University of Wisconsin fight song "On Wisconsin", history of Minnesota, What is the climate of South Africa, Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem Winds of Fate, library services in Minnesota, wedding superstitions, Why was the goat chosen as the Navy mascot, cooking a Turkish dinner, Which general marched his troops over a cliff.
One of a series of radio scripts written by the Radio Committee of the Minnesota Library Association for a weekly radio program broadcast throughout Minnesota. This program was broadcast on October 6, 1938. Questions and topics discussed in the program include: which direction do tornadoes whirl, wind velocity averages, what percentage of the population of Czechoslovakia is German, the German-Czech situation in 1938, the national song of Czechoslovakia, cabinet making, how to request county library service in Minnesota, Yom Kippur.
One of a series of radio scripts written by the Radio Committee of the Minnesota Library Association for a weekly radio program broadcast throughout Minnesota. This program was broadcast on October 13, 1938. Questions and topics discussed in this program include: which Big Ten stadium seats the most spectators, Why is Chicago called the "windy city", what is the duck hunting limit in Minnesota, how to cook wild rice, toasts suitable for a hunt dinner, was Captain Kidd a real person, is there a Leif Ericsson Day, what is the Council of Salamanca, who wrote Madame Butterfly, how to request county library service in Minnesota, the travelling library.
One of a series of radio scripts written by the Radio Committee of the Minnesota Library Association for a weekly radio program broadcast throughout Minnesota. This program was broadcast on October 20, 1938. Questions and topics discussed in the program include: when was the first waffle iron patented, how to treat ceiling water stains, the American Civil War, notable anniversaries in October, the legend of Saint Ursula, advice for purchasing encyclopedias.