[1] Evelyn Shuler, director of Raton Public Library and director for the ALA United War Work Campaign in New Mexico, was the organization's first president.

[2] There were a few attempts to put together a state library association in New Mexico between 1901 and 1915.

[3] Starting in 1914, librarians would participate in program meetings during the New Mexico Education Association.

[3] Spurred on by the formation of the Southwestern Library Association (SWLA) in Texas in 1922, librarians from New Mexico met at a colleague's home to form the NMLA so that they could be ratifiers of its constitution.

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