[1] SDLA started as a section of the South Dakota Federated Women’s Club (SDFWC) in 1904; two years later it began to be sponsored by the South Dakota Education Association for the nest eleven years.

[1] SDLA’s first official meeting was held in Sioux Falls on December 27, 1906, under their president W. H. Powers and older documents point towards an "organized" date of 1907.

[1][3][4] SDLA held its first independent meeting in Pierre, on September 5–6, 1917.

[5] SDLA, along with the South Dakota State Library, sponsors an annual South Dakota Children's Book Awards – Prairie Bud, Prairie Bloom, and Prairie Pasque Children's Book Awards – and a Young Adult Reading Program.

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