The Record documents the formation of the Stillwater Library Association on Jun 7, 1859. The Constitution, a membership list and detailed meeting minutes including the election of officers and book acquisitions are meticulously recorded. The Stillwater Library Association was formed as a city library association in 1859, and the Stillwater Public Library still operates as a city library today.
The Stillwater Library Association's handwritten record book includes detailed meeting minutes from 1870 - 1896. Elections of officers, fundraising events, finances, book acquisitions, membership lists and day to day library business transactions are meticuluosly recorded.
The Stillwater Library Association's printed 1874 Catalogue of Books contains 535 titles in the areas of science, history and biography, travel and advenutre, fiction and miscellaneous. A list of library rules is also included in the catalogue.
The Stillwater Library Association Treasurer's Book contains the financial records of the Stillwater Library Association including lending receipts, private donations from individuals and businesses, fundraising, the librarian�s salary, expenditures for books and day to day operating expenses.
Stillwater Library Association Record Book includes meeting minutes, content of the collection, funding sources, lending practices, day to day operations of the library, and the names of the members of the Stillwater Library Association. The volume also describes the orderly transfer of the Stillwater Library Association records and collections to the newly formed Stillwater Public Library.
Title list and author (last name only) of the Minnesota Library Association Travelling Library Number 2. List contains titles of forty volumes of a variety of fiction and non-fiction materials, as well as magazines such as Harper's and Youth's Companion. Notes indicate the collection circulated to Barnum, Midway, Deerwood and Thompson, Minnesota.
Title list and author (last name only) of the Minnesota Library Association Travelling Library Number 1. List contains titles of forty volumes of a variety of fiction and non-fiction materials, as well as magazines such as Godey's and Cosmopolitan. Note indicate the collection circulated to Thompson, Carleton, Midway, Barnum and Iron River, Minnesota between 1898 and 1902.
Title list and author (last name only) of the Minnesota Library Association Travelling Library Number 3. List contains titles of forty volumes of a variety of fiction and non-fiction materials, as well as magazines such as Ladies Home Journal. Notes indicate the collection circulated to Deerwood, Biwabic and Barnum, Minnesota.
Title list and author (last name only) of the Minnesota Library Association Traveling Library No. 4 containing forty volumes of fiction and non-fiction. Notes indicate this collection was circulated to Midway, Barnum, and Carleton locations in 1898-1900.
Title list and author (last name only) of the Minnesota Library Association Traveling Library No. 6 containing forty volumes of fiction and non-fiction. Notes indicate this collection was circulated to Carlton, Thompson, and Midway locations in 1898.
Title list and author (last name only) of the Minnesota Library Association Traveling Library No. 5 containing forty volumes of fiction and non-fiction. Notes indicate this collection was circulated to Biwabik and Midway locations in 1898-1899.
Program for the Minnesota Library Association Tenth annual meeting held July 10-12, 1902 in reading room of the University Library. Includes a welcome address by Dr. W. W. Folwell, Librarian, University of Minnesota. Cited topics include the library profession, Minnesota library legislation, publishers, school libraries, and a Round Table conducted by Gratia Countryman, Assistant Librarian, Minneapolis Public Library.
Preliminary announcement of Minnesota Library Association 10th annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 10-12, 1902 to be held in conjunction with the meeting of the National Educational Association. Includes list of officers and executive committee, and anticipated program.
Announcement of Minnesota Library Association 11th annual meeting in Owatonna, Minnesota, October 15-17, 1903. Includes list of officers, executive and local committee members, and information on the program, exhibits, membership, transportation and lodging.
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.
A display of menorahs and books in the Sumner branch of Minneapolis Public Library, located at 611 Van White Memorial Boulevard, which opened in 1915. The Carnegie-funded building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Founded in 1885, the Minneapolis Public Library grew to include a Central Library and fourteen branches. In 2008 the library was merged into the Hennepin County Library system.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
A display in the Sumner branch of Minneapolis Public Library, located at 611 Van White Memorial Boulevard, which opened in 1915. The Carnegie-funded building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Founded in 1885, the Minneapolis Public Library grew to include a Central Library and fourteen branches. In 2008 the library was merged into the Hennepin County Library system.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Lunch Program for 1920 Minnesota Library Association meeting in Hibbing, Minnesota, September 16, 1920. Includes menu and agenda. Speaker discussed the educational value of the library. Program in the shape of the Hibbing Public Library Service bookmobile (1920s style bus).
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.
Ethel Berry stands next to the open side of an early Hennepin County Library bookmobile. A delivery box used to transport materials between library branches sits in the foreground.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
A Hennepin County Library bookmobile is parked in front of the Wayzata Public Library, housed at that time in the City Hall building\. Wayzata Library serves Wayzata- and Lake Minnetonka-area residents. In 1905, space for a library was made available in Wayzata City Hall. When a fire destroyed City Hall in 1955, the library moved into a temporary location in the Kallstead Building. It reopened in 1957 in the new City Hall and again in its current location in Wayzata town square with a view of Lake Minnetonka.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
A woman in a fur coat peruses a book from the Hennepin County Library Bookmobile on a snowy day. Shown in the background is the Hennepin Hardware Company building.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Program for the Official Regional Meeting of the American Library Association held in Sioux City, Iowa, October 13-16, 1925, conducted by the State Library Associations of Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Topics include adult education, county libraries, small libraries, and lending department problems. Speakers included Frank Walters, University of Minnesota Librarian and Executive Board Member of the American Library Association.
Dinner Program for 1928 Minnesota and North Dakota Library Associations. Agenda includes dinner, community singing, library limericks, and library conundrums. Includes partial list of conundrums about authors.
Program for the Minnesota Library Association Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting held at Buckham Memorial Library in Faribault, Minnesota, October 8-10, 1931. Includes list of officers and local committees heads. Topics include the library profession, school libraries, reference service, hospital libraries, and periodicals for the blind.
Announcement of American Library Association Regional Conference for Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska, scheduled October 12-15, 1932 in Des Moines, Iowa. Includes information on meetings, activities, honored guests, and speakers including Gratia Countryman of the Minneapolis Public Library and Frank K. Walter of the University of Minnesota.
Detailed program of the 1932 Five State Conference of the American Library Association (Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri and Nebraska) held in Des Moines, Iowa, October 12-15, 1932. Includes daily meeting programs and activities, lists names of Conference Committee members, Round Table and Selection Chairmen, Local Committee members, and exhibitors. Copy held by Clara F. Baldwin, including several pages of handwritten notes taken at the conference.
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
The 1937 annual report of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA), includes a recap of the Institute for Librarians from North Dakota and Minnesota held at the University of Minnesota, October 11-14, 1937, and attended by over 500 people, with principal speakers Dr. Lyman Bryson of Columbia University, J.O. Modisette from Louisiana Library Commission, Charles W. Ferguson, Associate Editor of Reader's Digest, and Dr. Charles Gunderson Rockwell, Minnesota Education Commissioner. Other educators, librarians, and experts who conducted sessions are listed by name, title, and topic. The report also includes a recap of the MLA 45th Annual Meeting held at the University of Minnesota on October 14, 1937, with financial report, and review of Membership, Certification, and State Planning Committees. Several motions were passed, including the creation of Junior Members Section. Recently deceased members, Miriam E. Carey, teacher and organizer for the Library Commission, and Harriet A. Wood, Supervisor of School Libraries, were remembered.
Program description for the 46th annual meeting of the Minnesota Library Association, which took place on September 29th - October 1, 1938 at the Hotel Curtis, Minneapolis, Minnesota. In addition to general sessions, the conference included a presentation by Mr. Walter J. Breckenridge (Curator, Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota), a tea hosted by the University of Minnesota Press, a banquet with a presentation by Mr. Frederick G. Melcher (Editor, Publishers' Weekly and Publisher of the Library Journal), a reception held at the Minneapolis Public Library Staff Association with dancing and music by the Hotel Curtis Orchestra, and a Minnesota vs. Nebraska football game.
Broadcast schedule for the Minnesota Library Association Fact Finders radio program. Created by the Minnesota Library Association Radio Committee, the program was broadcast on KSTP from 12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m. every Thursday from Sept. 29th - December 22nd (13 broadcasts).
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.).
Speech from Carl Vitz, Librarian of the Minneapolis Public Library, to the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation about the library situation in Minnesota in 1938. The lack of access to books in Minnesota for 40% of the citizens, state aid to rural libraries, and the Minnesota State Aid Bill for Libraries is discussed.
Program description for the 48th annual meeting of the Minnesota Library Association, which took place on October 20th - 23rd, 1940 at the Hotel Saint Paul, St. Paul, Minnesota. Notable speakers included: St. Paul Mayor John J. McDonough, Mabel Seeley (author), Dr. Harold C. Deutsch (Professor of History, University of Minnesota), and Professor Roy C. Jones (Head, School of Architecture, University of Minnesota) with Professor Miles A. Tinker (Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Minnesota) on the topic of modernizing the library building. There was an open house at the Hill Reference Library.
Exterior view of the Champlin Branch. Library service has been available to Champlin-area residents since the early 1900s. For most of the 20th century, library service was provided in a variety of small community locations.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Two people stand in front of the Maple Plain branch of the Hennepin County Library, with one of the delivery boxes used to transport materials to the branches. Library service to Maple Plain and the surrounding communities began in 1922, when the library was housed out of a former U.S. Post Office. For the next five decades, the library operated out of various locations in the community, with the first permanent location opening in 1973 in a commercial building at 5184 Main Street East.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Program for the 49th Annual Conference of the Minnesota Library Association held in St. Cloud, Minnesota on October 2-4, 1941. The program includes a list of the Minnesota Library Association officers, a conference schedule of events and a list of exhibitors.
Announcement and tentative program for the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) 50th Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 1-3, 1942, with focus on the organization's history and plans for the future.
Hand decorated, typed notice of events of the Children and Young People's Section during the 1942 Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Conference, including planned tour of the Minneapolis Public Library, business meeting, and luncheon. Originally included with 1942 MLA Conference Announcement mailing.
Notice of proposed change to Article IV of Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Constitution from requiring MLA President and one or more members to participate on A.L.A. Council, to requiring one or more members of MLA to participate, with the associated correction to MLA by-laws. Originally included with 1942 MLA Conference Announcement mailing.
Ballot for 1942 officer election for the Minnesota Library Association (MLA), including seats for the President, First Vice-President & President Elect, Second Vice-President, and Secretary-Treasurer. Originally included with 1942 MLA Conference Announcement mailing.
Draft report of proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA), held October 1-3, 1942 at the Hotel Curtis, Minneapolis, MN with hand-written changes (11 pages). Includes information about speakers at the General Sessions; the annual business meeting; the Treasurer's Report; reports by the Library Planning Committee, Legislative Committee, Library Building Committee, Children's Memorial Library Committee, Victory Book Campaign, Publicity Committee, Committee on State Documents, and Nominating Committee; the annual banquet commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of MLA; and notes on section meetings of the Junior Members Roundtable, Small Public Libraries, Trustee's, Catalog, Children's and Young People's, College sections, and the Minnesota Association of Hospital and Medical Librarians. [Final report of proceedings stored separately.]
Program for the 50th Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) held at the Hotel Nicollet in Minneapolis, MN, October 1 - 3, 1942. Includes lists of MLA Officers, MLA Sections with name of Chairmen, MLA Committees with name of Chairmen, the program of events for each day of the conference, and exhibitors. Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr., Chief, War Service Section, W.P.A. of Minnesota, was the featured speaker at the first general session.