Trifold brochure encouraging young people to join the library profession. Includes information on job market, variety of work, and starting salaries, along with ways to get experience and further information, including contact information for the American Library Association, Special Libraries Association, Medical Library Association, Minnesota Library Association, Minnesota Department of Education. Includes contact information for the College of St. Catherine undergraduate library program and the University of Minnesota Master's Program. Notice of Library Careers Exhibit at Catholic Library Association Conference, April 16-18, 1968, at the Hilton Hotel, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Program for the Upper Midwest Regional Library Conference held on October 3-7, 1947 at the Hotel Nicollet in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The conference gathered library professionals from Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Wisconsin. General session topics included audio visual materials as resources in public libraries, "American Foreign Policy as Seen From Washington" presented by Eric Sevareid, "Inter-Cultural Relations Through the Library," library services in Australia, salaries for library employees, challenges for libraries in the Upper Midwest states, and Upper Midwest books.
Program for the Tri-State Regional Library Conference held on October 2-4, 1963 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The conference gathered library professionals from Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Staff from Minitex and the Minnesota Digital Library at a Scan for Keeps event. From left to right: Jolie Graybill, Carla Urban, Greta Bahnemann, and Elizabeth Baus in front of the Northtown Library. Scan for Keeps is a program developed by the Minnesota Digital Library for the purpose of loaning digitization kits for community scanning events. Kits are available for libraries, historical societies, and other organizations to encourage community engagement and foster preservation education.
Left to right: Ruth Dukelow (CLIC Director, 2012 - 2019) and Mary Parker (Minitex Associate Director for Reference, 1989 - 2012) at the Minitex MnLINK Conference in 2012.
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.
MJ Rossman, Assistant Director for OCLC and Reference, 1986-1996. MJ joined the Minitex staff in 1980 as Head of the Minitex Reference Service. She became Assistant Director in 1986 with responsibilities for directing the OCLC and Reference Units. Direction of the MULS Program was later added to her responsibilities. For a more complete description, see the Minitex Messenger, v. 14, no.1 (Aug. 28, 1996).
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."
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.
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.
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."
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 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; 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."