Editing American Library Association (section)

====Centennial====
The American Library Association celebrated its centennial in 1976. In commemoration the association published ''Libraries and the Life of the Mind in America.''<ref>''Libraries and the Life of the Mind in America: Addresses Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the American Library Association.'' Chicago: American 
Library Assn., 1977.</ref><ref>[https://www.library.illinois.edu/ala/140-years-ala-conference-planners/11-1976-conference-sources/ Edward G. Holley, ALA at 100, American Library Association] (Chicago, 1976)</ref>

The American Library Association Archives, established at the time of the centennial, created an online exhibit which includes a history of the centennial. [[Clara Stanton Jones]], president, Inaugural address was titled, “The First Step into ALA’s Second Century.”<ref>Clara Stanton Jones, “The First Step into ALA’s Second Century,” in Step into 200: American Library Association Gala Inaugural Banquet, July 23, 1976, [https://www.library.illinois.edu/ala/140-years-ala-conference-planners/10-1976-conference/ Record series 5/1/1, Box 18, Folder: 1976.]</ref>