North Carolina Library Association

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North Carolina Library Association
NicknameNCLA
FormationMay 14, 1904;121 years ago (1904-05-14)
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Parent organization
 American Library Association
Website nclaonline.org

The North Carolina Library Association (NCLA) is a professional organization for North Carolina's librarians and library workers. It is headquartered in High Point, North Carolina.

The NCLA was founded on May 14, 1904, in Greensboro, North Carolina. [1] The original organization had 32 charter members with Annie Smith Ross from the Carnegie Library in Charlotte as president. [1] Other early presidents included charter members Annie Florence Petty and Joseph Penn Breedlove. [2]

North Carolina had separate associations for black and white librarians until 1955. [3] The North Carolina Negro Library Association (est. 1934) was the first black library association chapter in the ALA. [4] [5] [6] The American Library Association decided to only allow one library association chapter per state, and as a result NCLA agreed to admit black members in 1954 and the two associations merged in 1955. [4] [7]

References

  1. 1 2 "The North Carolina Library Association" . Greensboro Telegram. Greensboro, North Carolina. November 8, 1908. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  2. ↑ "Past Presidents of NCLA". nclaonline.org. Retrieved March 20, 2025.
  3. ↑ Fox, Charlesanna (1955). "President's Corner". North Carolina Libraries. 13 (2): 70.
  4. 1 2 Wiegand, Wayne A. (2017). ""Any Ideas?": The American Library Association and the Desegregation of Public Libraries in the American South". Libraries: Culture, History, and Society. 1 (1). The Pennsylvania State University Press: 1. doi: 10.5325/libraries.1.1.0001 . ISSN   2473-0343.
  5. ↑ "North Carolina Negro Library Association". Little Known Black Librarian Facts. 2011-09-15. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  6. ↑ Poole, Alex H. (2018). ""Could My Dark Hands Break through the Dark Shadow?": Gender, Jim Crow, and Librarianship during the Long Freedom Struggle, 1935–1955". The Library Quarterly. 88 (4). University of Chicago Press: 348–374. doi:10.1086/699269. ISSN   0024-2519.
  7. ↑ Lee, Mollie Huston (Winter 1977). "North Carolina Negro Library Association". North Carolina Libraries. 35 (1): 13–33.


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