MLA is Michigan’s oldest and largest library association spanning more than a century. It has influenced the course of Michigan’s libraries since its inception in 1891, after Mary A. Eddy, the librarian at Coldwater Free Public Library, wrote to Henry M. Utley of the Detroit Public Library about organizing a state library association.

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View the letter Mary A. Eddy, librarian at Coldwater Free Public Library, wrote to Henry M. Utley of the Detroit Public Library in April of 1891.