Massachusetts Library Association

MLA was founded in 1890 as the "Massachusetts Library Club".{{cite web |url=http://www.olis.ri.gov/aboutus/glossary.pdf |title=Glossary of Library Terms and Acronyms |author=State of Rhode Island, Office of Library and Information Services |accessdate=2007-10-26}} The gavel that has been passed down from president to president is said to be made from the wood of the USS Constitution.{{cite web |url=http://www.masslib.org/Resources/Documents/MLA%20Annual%20Meeting%2005%2008%202014%20DRAFT.pdf |title=Massachusetts Library Association (MLA) Annual Meeting @ Annual Conference |date=2014-05-08 |accessdate=2018-04-26 |quote=The gavel and block of wood were presented to the Massachusetts Library Club in 1929. The wood is from the USS Constitution.}}{{cite web |url=http://www.wimuseum.org/uss-constitution-gavel/ |title=USS Constitution Gavel |publisher=Western Illinois Museum |accessdate=2018-04-26 |quote=Other locations that have a USS Constitution gavel include: the Governor’s office of Massachusetts, the Maine Maritime Museum, Bath Maine, the Daytona Beach, Florida American Legion, the Rochester, New Hampshire chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the president of the Massachusetts Library Association, the Osterville Men’s Club of Osterville Massachusetts and the Masonic Lodge of Kinston, North Carolina.}} The MLA had a committee called The Art Club that created sets of photographs for travelling art exhibits that would rotate through Massachusetts member and associate libraries as early as 1900.{{cite book |title=Annual Report |year=1901 |publisher=Watertown Free Public Library |location=Watertown, MA}}

In 1962 MLA's Intellectual Freedom Committee gave testimony before the Massachusetts Obscene Literature Control Commission opposing the suppression of Henry Miller's book Tropic of Cancer supporting Massachusetts residents' freedom to read.{{cite book |last=McCoy |first=Ralph Edward |title=Freedom of the Press: An Annotated Bibliography |year=1968 |publisher=Southern Illinois University Press |location=Carbondale, Illinois |isbn=0-8093-0335-3}}{{cite book |last=Robbins |first=Louise |title=Censorship and the American Library |year=1996 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, CT |isbn=0-313-29644-8 |page=123}}

MLA has acted as both a publisher of authors such as Robert Frost as well as an author on many state standards for library services to different populations.

• Books We Like: Sixty-two Answers to the Question...{{cite book |last=Frost |first=Robers |author2=Edward Weeks |year=1936 |title=Books We Like: Sixty-two Answers to the Question |publisher=Massachusetts Library Association |location=Boston}}
• Standards for Public Library Services to Children in Massachusetts{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hhUmGQAACAAJ |author=Massachusetts Library Association Ad Hoc Committee on Children's Standards |title=Standards for Public Library Services to Children in Massachusetts |date=1987 |accessdate=2007-10-28}}
• Standards for Public Library Services to Young Adults in Massachusetts{{cite web|url=http://www.masslib.org/yss/mlayastandards.htm |author=Massachusetts Library Association, Children’s Issues Section |title=Standards for Public Library Services to Young Adults in Massachusetts |accessdate=2007-10-28 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808170705/http://www.masslib.org/yss/mlayastandards.htm |archivedate=2007-08-08 |url-status=dead}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20051119020007/http://www.masslib.org/newsletters.htm Bay State Libraries], the MLA newsletter published quarterly (January, April, July, and October), focuses on items of interest to the association and to Massachusetts librarians in general.
• The MLA has developed a Library Use Value Calculator spreadsheet, which is used by many libraries throughout the United States.{{cite web|url=http://www.ilovelibraries.org/getinformed/getinvolved/index.cfm |author=ilove libraries.org |title=Get involved |accessdate=2007-10-26 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016070433/http://ilovelibraries.org/getinformed/getinvolved/index.cfm |archivedate=2007-10-16 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vermontlibraries.org/value.html |title=Library Use Value Calculator |author=Vermont Library Association |accessdate=2007-10-26 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010131408/http://www.vermontlibraries.org/value.html |archivedate=2007-10-10 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.maine.gov/msl/services/calculator.htm |title=Library Use Value Calculator |author= Maine State Library|accessdate=2007-10-26}}{{cite web |url=http://dpi.state.wi.us/pld/econimpact.html |author=Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction |title=Economic Impact of Libraries |accessdate=2007-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080310060338/http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/pld/econimpact.html |archive-date=2008-03-10 |url-status=dead}}

• [https://mla.wildapricot.org/Conference-Committee Conference Committee]
• [https://mla.wildapricot.org/committees/intfreedom/socialresponsibility Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibilities Committee]
• [https://mla.wildapricot.org/committees/jmiller Jordan Miller Committee] (annual storytelling program)
• [https://mla.wildapricot.org/Leadership-and-Management-Section Leadership and Management Section]
• [https://mla.wildapricot.org/committees/legislative Legislative Committee]
• [https://mla.wildapricot.org/TSS Library Information Technologies Section]
• [https://mla.wildapricot.org/committees/membership Membership Committee]
• [https://mla.wildapricot.org/committees/personnel Personnel & Education Committee]
• [https://mla.wildapricot.org/page-585030 Public Relations Committee]

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20051119020348/http://www.masslib.org/sectionsandcommittees/technicalservices.htm Technical Services Section]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060115035254/http://www.masslib.org/sectionsandcommittees/paralibrarian.htm Paralibrarian Section]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20051119020155/http://www.masslib.org/sectionsandcommittees/youthservices.htm Youth Services Section]

• Massachusetts Friends of Libraries (MFOL)Robert Hayes. [https://massfol.org/ "Massachusetts Friends of Libraries"]. (December 18, 2017).
• [http://www.masslib.org/mlta/index.html Massachusetts Library Trustees Association]
• [http://www.mlin.lib.ma.us/ The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC)]
• [http://www.maschoolibraries.org/ Massachusetts School Library Association (MSLA)]
• [http://www.ala.org/ American Library Association (ALA)] (See also: Wikipedia article on the American Library Association)
• [http://www.nelib.org/ New England Library Association (NELA)]
• [http://www.acrlnec.org/ Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)]

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• [http://www.masslib.org/ Massachusetts Library Association (MLA)]
• [http://nelib.org/ New England Library Association website]

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