The Idaho Library Association (ILA) is a professional organization for

Idaho Idaho ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Montana and Wyom ...

librarians A librarian is a person who works professionally in a library providing access to information, and sometimes social or technical programming, or instruction on information literacy to users. The role of the librarian has changed much over time, ...

and library workers based in

Boise, Idaho Boise (, , ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County. On the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is east of the Oregon border and north of the Nevada border. The downtown are ...

History

The Idaho Library Association was founded as the Idaho State Library Association on December 29, 1915, at

Boise High School Boise High School is a public secondary school in Boise, Idaho, one of five traditional high schools within the city limits, four of which are in the Boise School District. A three-year comprehensive high school, Boise High is located on the outly ...

during a meeting called by Margaret S. Roberts, the librarian of the Free Traveling Library Commission. Gretchen L. Smith, a librarian at the Idaho Technical Institute in

Pocatello Pocatello () is the county seat of and largest city in Bannock County, with a small portion on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in neighboring Power County, in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. It is the principal city of the ...

, was the association's first president. The association changed its name to the Idaho Library Association in 1962 and became officially incorporated in 1967.

Publications

''The Idaho Librarian'' was the journal of the Idaho Library Association until 2016. The ''LiLAC Newsletter'' is a quarterly newsletter published by the Library Leadership Advisory Committee.

References

External links

Idaho Library Association website

Pacific Northwest Library Association
Library associations in the United States Organizations based in Idaho {{Library-org-stub