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The Cataloging and Metadata Management Section (CaMMS) had the longest history, having begun as a section of ALA in 1900. The Preservation and Reformatting Section (PARS) was a result of a 1994 merger of the Reproduction of Library Materials Section (which started as the Copying Methods Section) and the Preservation of Library Materials Section ...
St. John's University: Library and Information Science State University of New York (Albany) : College of Computing and Information (Information Studies Department) SUNY at Buffalo : Department of Library and Information Studies (Graduate School of Education)
The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world.
Since the 1920s, the American Library Association or the American Association of School Librarians (one of the ALA’s divisions) have worked to create and update information literacy standards ...
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) is a division of the American Library Association (ALA) [1] that has more than 7,000 members and serves primary school and secondary school librarians in the U.S., Canada, and even internationally. Prior to being established in 1951, school librarians were served by the School Library Section ...
Below is a continuation of the North America section of the List of library associations. Included are state associations, school library associations, and special library associations that are specific to an American state.
The ALA Medal of Excellence is an annual award bestowed by the American Library Association for recent creative leadership of high order, particularly in the fields of library management, library training, cataloging and classification, and the tools and techniques of librarianship. [1]
PLA was formed in 1944 as the Division of Public Libraries of the American Library Association. The formation of the Division of Public Libraries of the American Library Association was approved by the ALA Council in 1944 following petitions signed by nearly 1,200 members. The first PLA president was Amy Winslow of Cuyahoga County Library. [10]