The Beginnings of the ND Library Association
By CATHY A. LANGEMO
December 27 – During this week in 1906, the new North Dakota Library Association held its first annual meeting in Fargo.
“The year before, on December 19, 1905, the Library Association of Fargo/Moorhead invited all librarians and others interested in library work in North Dakota to meet at the Fargo Public Library on January 18, 1906 .
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the organization of an association of state libraries. From this invitation, a statewide library organization grew.
Twenty-two attended the January 18 meeting. Walter L. Stockwell, Superintendent of Public Instruction and Chairman of the Carnegie Library Board, Grafton spoke, as did Max Blatt of the North Dakota Agricultural College Library Committee.
After much discussion, a motion was presented and passed to form the North Dakota…