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Library associations connect libraries and library workers at the local, national, and international level. Library associations often provide resources to their individual and institutional members that enable cooperation, exchange of information, education, research, and development.
Human rights is a professional ethic that informs the practice of librarianship. [8] The American Library Association (ALA), the profession's voice in the U.S., defines the core values of librarianship as information access, confidentiality/privacy, democracy, diversity, education and lifelong learning, intellectual freedom, preservation, the public good, professionalism, service and social ...
Lee Shiflett provides the history of the philosophical beliefs of academic librarians in the late 19th and early 20th century. [4] An essay published in Libraries, Books and Culture, by Wayne A. Wiegand detailed the politics surrounding the formation of the Bibliographical Society of America through its split from the American Library Association and the reconstituting of the Bibliographical ...
The public librarian: a report of the public library inquiry (Columbia University Press, 1952) Carrier, Esther Jane. Fiction in public libraries, 1876-1900 (Scarecrow Press, 1965) Garrison, Dee. Apostles of Culture: the public librarian and American society, 1876-1920. (Free Press (1979)) ISBN 0-02-693850-2; Jones, Theodore.
Honorary Membership conferred by the American Library Association is the Association's highest award. [1] " Honorary membership may be conferred on a living citizen of any country whose contribution to librarianship or a closely related field is so outstanding that it is of lasting importance to the advancement of the whole field of library service.
A pioneer in American librarianship [2] and an influential figure in the development of libraries in America in the late 19th and early the 20th century, Melvil Dewey played a major role in the establishment of both the American Library Association and the National Association of State Libraries. [3]
[2] [3] She has published extensively on librarianship, [4] and is a co-editor of the Charleston Conference Proceedings, and a founding co-editor of Against the Grain, a periodical on topics in librarianship. [5] Strauch has served on the National Museum and Library Services Board, which advises the Institute of Museum and Library Services. [6]
The first library school in the United States was established by Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey decimal system, in 1887 at Columbia University. [3] Since then many library schools have been founded in the United States and Canada, [4] with Canada's first formal librarianship program established at McGill University in 1904. [5]