• The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally...
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  • Library associations connect libraries, library workers, and information professionals at the local, national, and international level. Library associations...
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    the public library, as such, was an American invention. There were parish (parochial) libraries open in Anglican churches all over the American colonies...
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  • The American Library Association accredits the following library schools and master’s programs in library and information studies. University of Alabama...
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    Public Library Data Service Statistical Report, a publication of the Public Library Association, a division of the American Library Association, defines...
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  • The American Indian Library Association (AILA) is an affiliate of the American Library Association (ALA), and is a membership action group that focuses...
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  • The American Library Association (ALA) is a professional society for librarians and some other information service providers. Its awards program includes...
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  • The following is a list of presidents of the American Library Association. The American Library Association (ALA), founded in 1876 and chartered in 1879...
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    of Library and Information Science. American Library Association. ISBN 978-0-8389-4757-9. Merrill, William Stetson; Association, American Library (1939)...
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    The American Theological Library Association (Atla) is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3), professional association, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States...
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    The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 125 research library at comprehensive, research institutions in Canada and...
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  • members, OLA is also the largest library association in Canada and among the 10 largest library associations in North America. The stated purpose of the OLA...
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  • The Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) is an international organization dedicated to the production, collection, organization and dissemination of...
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    Grants". American Library Association. 4 April 2010. Retrieved 18 July 2021. "The Amulet of Samarkand | Awards & Grants". American Library Association. 25...
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  • The Public Library Association (PLA), a division of the American Library Association, is a professional association of public librarians and supporters...
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  • American Library Association (BCALA) is an affiliate of the American Library Association (ALA) that focuses on the needs of African-American library professionals...
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    The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) is a division of the American Library Association. ALSC has over 4,000 members, including children...
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    The American Library Association Equality Award has been given annually by the American Library Association since 1984 in recognition of achievement for...
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    Access". American Library Association (ALA). Archived from the original on 4 October 2009. Retrieved 16 July 2009. "Access". American Library Association (ALA)...
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    Melvil Dewey (category American Library Association people)
    School of Library Service, and a founding member of the American Library Association. Although Dewey's contributions to the modern library are widely...
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    received accolades from The Horn Book Magazine and the American Library Association. American novelist Robert Cormier found the novel "unforgettable"...
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  • Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is an international body representing the interests of people who rely on libraries and information...
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    The Canadian Library Association (CLA) was a national, predominantly English-language association which represented 57,000 library workers across Canada...
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  • American Libraries is the flagship magazine of the American Library Association (ALA). American Libraries was first published in 1970 as a continuation...
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    librarianship in the United States. The American Library Association was formed on October 6, The American Library Journal was founded, Melvil Dewey published...
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    Published jointly by the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and the UK Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals...
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    include the American Library Association, the Australian Library and Information Association, the Canadian Library Association, the Library and Information...
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  • The American Library Association 1876–1917. New York: Greenwood Press. American Library Association Names Skip Dye Honorary Member. American Library Association...
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  • "American Library Association". American Library Association. "Australian Library and Information Association". www.alia.org.au. "Canadian Library Association...
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  • Public Library about organizing a state library association. They had discussed this matter at the 1890 meeting of the American Library Association in New...
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