TIMELINE of Centennial Activities

About the Organizers of the Centennial Celebration

In 1997, The TLA Executive Board appointed an ad hoc Centennial Celebration Committee, which was charged with planning and implementing activities related to the 100^th anniversary celebration of the Texas Library Association in the year 2002.

The MISSION of the Committee is to plan and implement activities related to the Centennial Celebration of the Texas Library Association in the year 2002.

The Objectives of the Committee are:

• To use the Texas Library Association’s centennial as a means of celebrating libraries
• To look at the future as well as the past
• To focus on libraries as well as the Association
• To tie into the TLA strategic plan
• To contribute to the legislative and public relations campaigns of the Association

The strategies are:

• To involve the units of the Texas Library Association through the Centennial Celebration Circle
• To honor and cultivate champions of libraries — library leaders, friends, trustees, volunteers, institutions, foundations, trusts, and organizations
• To involve library schools as we look at the many contributions of library education in the state
• To involve individual libraries
  

CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION CIRCLE

The Committee has held several meetings since its first session at the 1997 Annual Assembly. We soon came to see that communicating with some 50 TLA units presented a problem. Our concern resulted in obtaining permission from the Executive Board to create the Centennial Celebration Circle, consisting of a delegate and alternate for each unit.

The Centennial Celebration Circle functions to support the ad hoc Centennial Celebration Committee in planning and activating centennial projects. The Committee will suggest projects which units may wish to undertake. Circle members will, in turn, present project ideas to their units, coordinate these activities, and report their progress to the assigned Committee liaison. From time to time we also will ask for Circle input on such matters as planning the events that will take place at the 2002 Conference. We hope you will work with us in making the Centennial Celebration a huge success. The ad hoc Committee will meet with the Circle at each Annual Conference and Annual Assembly up through the year 2002.

Centennial Celebration Committee (Steering) and Liaison Assignments

Margaret Irby Nichols, Chair — Ref RT, Awards
Viki Ash-Geisler — CRT, TBA, Dist 6, SSIG
Steven Brown — Admin RT, DP Com, Dist 2, Doo-Wop
Linda Claytor — F&T RT, Tel Com, Dist. 7
Elizabeth Collins — TASL, M&RT, Tx Media Awards, Dist. 5
Donna Duncan — YART, Pub Com
Steven Hagstrom — CULD, A&Tech RT, Storytelling, Membership, PR&R, Dist 1
Andrea Lapsley — SLD, GODRT, PR, Dist. 8
Jeanette Larson — PLD, Black Caucus, SCLRT, Literacy
Susan McGinnis — LI RT, S&R Com, Dist. 9
Jan Moltzan — ILL RT, TALL Texans, IF Com, Leg Com
Marsha Saucier — CE Com, Dist 3
Gloria Meraz, TLA Archivist — A&LH RT, LSSSRT, TMRC, Dist. 4, LSS I
Charles Harrell, History of TLA Committee — SRT, Hist of TLA

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RESOURCES
for the Centennial Celebration Steering Committee and the Centennial Celebration Circle

Ideas for Unit Centennial Celebration Activities

Tips on Compiling Unit’s History

Archives and Records Management Policies

Unit Progress Reports

Suite of Centennial Logos

IDEAS FOR UNIT CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION ACTIVITIES

Compile a history or chronology of the unit
Honor unit’s champions
Prepare a scrapbook of unit activities
Present a table topic display at 2002 conference on unit’s history/future
Make a contribution to the Association time capsule
Compile a bibliography on the best books for children set in Texas–one for each decade perhaps
Banned books in Texas/Intellectual Freedom success stories
Conduct a survey of Carnegie library buildings
Conduct a survey of libraries started by women’s clubs
Write a history of Legislative Day
Association activities that a unit might sponsor or spearhead:
Texas library champions
2002 display/show case for unit scrapbooks, memorabilia, etc.
Time capsule
Develop association screen saver (use logo)
Declare 2002 Year of Libraries in Texas (Governor)
Commemorative Packaging–Coke, Dr. Pepper
Dewey Decimal Ball
Create a traveling exhibit
Identify Texas libraries older than TLA — then and now
Guest editorials on libraries/future of libraries

TLA Charter Documents

1. Call for Meeting. Benjamin Wyche, May 8, 1902. Copied from the Collections in The Center For American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
   
   
2. Constitution, June 10, 1902. Copied from the Collections in The Center For American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
   
   
3. Depression Era Letter, 1930.