North Carolina Library Association

North Carolina Library Association
NicknameNCLA
FormationMay 14, 1904 (1904-05-14)
Tax ID no.56-6064053
Parent organization
American Library Association
Websitenclaonline.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]

Organizational Structure

The Executive Committee consists of the President, Vice-President/President-Elect, Secretary, Treasurer, Treasurer Elect, and the four Regional Directors representing the Eastern, Central, Piedmont, and Western regions of North Carolina. All Executive Committee members are elected by the NCLA membership. The Executive Committee along with the representative of the Association to the American Library Association Council, the representative for the North Carolina School Media Library Association, the North Carolina member of the Executive Board of the Southeastern Library Association, the editor of North Carolina Libraries, and the chairs from each of the sections and committees comprise the NCLA Executive Board.[8]

See also

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.
  8. ↑ "NCLA_Handbook working toward revisions 2022" (PDF). North Carolina Library Association.
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