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Volume 2, number 3 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in July, 1953. Contents include the President's report, a tentative program schedule for the 1953 MLA annual conference, the Legislative Committee report, the Vice President's report on the MLA district meetings, and a report on the Spring County Library Conference.

Volume 2, number 1 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in December 1952. Contents include a list of Officers, Section Chairmen and Committee Members, the 1952-1953 MLA budget, a call for applications for the MLA Scholarship, reports from the Legislative, Public Relations and Activities Committees, and a list of members of the State Board of Education.

Volume 3, number 4 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in October 1954. Contents include a list of officers elected for 1954-55, a report on the district meetings, the Legislative Committee Report, the Report of the Committee on Intellectual Freedom, a report of the Children's, Young People's and School Librarians' Section, a report of the Membership Committee, a report from the Committee on Library Work as a Career, and other brief section reports.

Volume 8, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) bulletin was published in April 1959. Content includes library legislation news, announcements regarding MLA district meetings and the 1959 MLA annual conference, and the naming of the University of Minnesota's Walter Library.

Volume 3, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in March 1954. Contents include information about the American Library Association annual conference held in Minneapolis in June, a report of the Ways and Means Committee, an Intellectual Freedom Committee report, a Legislative Committee report, a Public Relations Committee report, a list of committee members, an announcement of the release of the Index to Religious Periodical Literature, 1949-1952, a report of the Membership Committee, and an announcement of the return of a radio program titled "Carnival of Books."

Section two of the act creating Tennessee's new Law Revision Commission charges that body with the duty to study and report to the next legislature on "the laws governing the organization and operation of corporations, partnerships and other forms of business and social endeavor." The study is now roughly a year old and is reportedly making good headway. Since much of our law of business organizations may therefore be changed in the near future, this Survey has been abbreviated as much as possible.

Volume 3, number 3 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in June 1954. The contents include the announcement of a special MLA meeting hosted by members of the Legislative Committee, announcement of the district meetings, information about the ALA annual conference being held in Minneapolis, various brief committee reports, a submission from the chair of the Committee on Library Work as a Career, and a report from the World Affairs Center's meeting on UN Charter reform.

Volume 3, number 1 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published in December, 1953. Contents include a list of Executive Officers, Section Chairmen and Committee Chairmen, the Membership Committee report, the Trustee Section report, the Financial Report for 1952-1953, the budget for 1953-1954, the Legislative Committee report, excerpts from the report of the Committee on Intellectual Freedom presented at the 1953 MLA conference, and a call to action to support the Korean-Unesco Stamp Project.

Volume 4, number 1 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin published February, 1955. Topics include legislative update, state-aid bill, and censorship legislation; committee on standards; St. Paul Public Library Spring Book Fair; MLA protests State Library Commission being transferred to State Board of Education; review of the Twin Cities library club semi-annual meeting.

Volume 4, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin was published July, 1955. Topics include district library meetings held in Albert Lea, Crookston, International Falls, Montevideo, and St. Paul; update on status of library division within the Minnesota State Board of Education; Intellectual Freedom committee; A.L.A. meeting set for Philadelphia, July 3-9; Minnesota chapter designation within A.L.A.; Fall MLA conference scheduled; and budgets and expenditures October 1954-June 1955.

Volume 5, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin published May, 1956. Topics include MLA executive board's letter to the Minnesota State Board of Education; Institute of Public Library Materials for Adults report; County Section of MLA meeting April 12-14, 1956; MLA committee appointments; Hubert Humphrey offers his newsletter to interested parties; MLA directory being prepared; Library Services Bill passed the state House of Representatives.

Volume 6, number 2 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin published February, 1957. Topics include legislative news; public library initiative announced; Governor's conference on aging encourages library services to rural areas; ALA membership reminder; Adeline T. Davidson memorial; announcement of MLA committees for 1956-57. Insert regarding state legislative bill relating to rural library service, and insert for MLA membership form with membership fees.

Volume 6, number 1 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin published November, 1956. Topics include announcement of MLA officers and committee chairmen for 1956-57; call for legislative ideas for Minnesota library development in 1957; MLA convention news; Governor's conference on aging announced; Senator Edward J. Thye offers newsletter to interested libraries; MLA membership statistics; Amendment No. 3 to the Minnesota State constitution backed by MLA.

Volume 6, number 3 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Bulletin published August, 1957. Topics include legislative report, MLA district meetings held in St. Cloud, Faribault, New Ulm, Fergus Falls, and Eveleth, Minnesota; Report of subcommittee on headquarters location of ALA, list of MLA members attending ALA meeting in Kansas City, Internal Revenue Code amendment introduced by U.S. Representative Eugene McCarthy to include charitable contributions to libraries to be tax deductible.

The M. H. Ross Papers contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2001-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125. The campaign materials consist of items from the 1940 and 1948 political campaigns in which Ross participated. These items include campaign cards, posters, speech transcripts, news clippings, rally materials, letters to voters, and fliers. Organizing and arbitration materials covers labor organizing events from "Operation Dixie" in Georgia, the furniture workers in North Carolina, and the Mine-Mill workers in the Western United States. Organizing materials include fliers, correspondence, news articles, radio transcripts, and some related photos. Arbitration files consist of agreements, decisions, and agreement booklets. The social and political research files cover a wide time period (1930's to the late 1970's/early 1980's). The topics include mainly the Ku Klux Klan, racism, Communism, Red Scare, red baiting, United States history, and literature. These files consist mostly of news and journal articles. Ross interacted with coal miners while doing work for the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) and while working at the Fairmont Clinic in West Virginia. Included in these related files are books, news articles, journals, UMWA reports, and coal miner oral histories conducted by Ross. Tying in to all of the activities Ross participated in during his life were his research and manuscript files. He wrote numerous newspaper and journal articles on history and labor. Later, as he worked for the UMWA and at the Fairmont Clinic, he wrote more in-depth articles about coal miners, their lifestyle, and medical problems they faced (while the Southern Labor Archives has many of Ross's coal mining and lifestyle articles, it does not have any of his medical articles). Along with these articles are the research files Ross collected to write them, which consist of notes, books, and newspaper and journal articles. In additional to his professional career, Ross was adamant about documenting his and his wife's family history in the oral history format. Of particular interest are the recordings of his interviews with his wife's family - they were workers, musicians, and singers of labor and folk songs. Finally, in this collection are a number of photographs and slides, which include images of organizing, coal mining (from the late 19th through 20th centuries), and Appalachia. Of note is a small photo album from the 1930s which contains images from the Summer School for Workers, and more labor organizing. A few audio items are available as well, such as Ross political speeches and an oral history in which Ross was interviewed by his daughter, Jane Ross Davis in 1986. All photographic and audio-visual materials are at the end of their respective series. ; Myron Howard "Mike" Ross was born November 9, 1919 in New York City. He dropped out of school when he was seventeen and moved to Texas, where he worked on a farm. From 1936 until 1939, Ross worked in a bakery in North Carolina. In the summer of 1938, he attended the Southern School for Workers in Asheville, North Carolina. During the fall of 1938, Ross would attend the first Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. He would attend this conference again in 1940 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 1939 to 1940, Ross worked for the United Mine Workers Non-Partisan League in North Carolina, working under John L. Lewis. He was hired as a union organizer by the United Mine Workers of America, and sent to Saltville, Virginia and Rockwood, Tennessee. In 1940, Ross ran for a seat on city council on the People's Platform in Charlotte, North Carolina. During this time, he also married Anne "Buddie" West of Kennesaw, Georgia. From 1941 until 1945, Ross served as an infantryman for the United States Army. He sustained injuries near the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944. From 1945 until 1949, Ross worked for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, then part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), as a union organizer. He was sent to Macon, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia and to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he worked with the United Furniture Workers Union. He began handling arbitration for the unions. In 1948, Ross ran for United States Congress on the Progressive Party ticket in North Carolina. He also served as the secretary for the North Carolina Progressive Party. Ross attended the University of North Carolina law school from 1949 to 1952. He graduated with honors but was denied the bar on the grounds of "character." From 1952 until 1955, he worked for the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers as a union organizer, first in New Mexico (potash mines) and then in Arizona (copper mines). From 1955 to 1957, Ross attended the Columbia University School of Public Health. He worked for the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund from 1957 to 1958, where he represented the union in expenditure of health care for mining workers. By 1958, Ross began plans for what would become the Fairmont Clinic, a prepaid group practice in Fairmont, West Virginia, which had the mission of providing high quality medical care for miners and their families. From 1958 until 1978, Ross served as administrator of the Fairmont Clinic. As a result of this work, Ross began researching coal mining, especially coal mining lifestyle, heritage and history of coal mining and disasters. He would interview over one hundred miners (coal miners). Eventually, Ross began writing a manuscript about the history of coal mining. Working for the Rural Practice Program of the University of North Carolina from 1980 until 1987, Ross taught in the medical school. M. H. Ross died on January 31, 1987 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ; Digitization of the M. H. Ross Papers was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.