Kansas Library Association

{{short description|Professional association for librarians in Kansas}}

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| parent_organization = American Library Association

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The Kansas Library Association (KLA) is a professional organization for Kansas's librarians and library workers. It was founded on December 27, 1900, in the office of the state librarian, after an earlier meeting organized by Anna LaPorte Diggs.{{cite book |title=Polk Topeka, Kansas, city directory |date=1905 |page=123 |url=https://archive.org/details/polktopekakansas00unse/page/122/mode/2up/ |accessdate=12 February 2020}}{{cite web | title=History | website=Kansas Library Association | date=1900-05-17 | url=https://kslibassoc.org/History | access-date=2020-02-12}} James L. King of Topeka was elected the first president. KLA became an official state chapter of the American Library Association in 1922.{{cite news |title=Chicago Mid-Winter Meetings |url=https://archive.org/details/bulletinamerica04assogoog/page/n11/mode/2u |accessdate=12 February 2020 |work=Bulletin of the American Library Association |volume=16 |issue=1 |date=January 1922}}

KLA was one of the first state library associations in the US to have a publicity committee which sent news of Kansas libraries direct to media outlets.{{cite journal |title=Library Activities During 1913-1914 |journal=Report of the Commissioner of Education made to the Secretary of the Interior for the year 1914 |url=https://archive.org/details/reportcommissio11unkngoog/page/n538/mode/2up/ |accessdate=12 February 2020 |publisher=United States Bureau of Education |location=Washington : G.P.O.}} KLA publishes Kansas Libraries Magazine.{{cite web | title=Kansas Libraries Magazine | website=Kansas Library Association | url=https://kslibassoc.org/Kansas_Libraries_Magazine | access-date=2020-02-12}}