Directory of Associations and Organizations

These are associations and organizations of interest to Collection Development and Acquisitions Librarians. Other helpful lists include:

	Associations and Organizations Related to Information Studies by Ken Lavin, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto
	IdeaList a directory of nonprofit websites, from the Contact Center Network
	NIRA's World Directory of Think Tanks 1996 from the National Institute for Research Advancement
	Professional Organizations in the Information Sciences by Karen Stone, The CSU School of Library and Information Science
	AcqWeb's list of Publishing Associations and Organizations
	Scholarly Societies from University of Waterloo. A large, well-organized electronic guide, which includes essays on publishing issues

• ARLIS/UK & Ireland, the Art Libraries Society
• American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) AALLNET
• American Booksellers Association BookWeb
• American Indian Library Association
• American Library Association (ALA)
  • American Association of School Librarians
  • Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS)
• American Medical Informatics Association
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• American Society of Association Executives
• American Society for Information Sciences (ASIS)
• American Society of Indexers (ASI)
• American Theological Library Association (ATLA)
• AMIGOS Bibliographic Council, Inc.
• Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)
• Apple Library Users Group (ALUG)
• Art Libraries Society of North America
• Aslib The Association for Information Management
• La Asociación de Bibliotecarios Graduados de la República Argentina (ABGRA) (Argentine Library Association)
• La Asociación de Bibliotecas Nacionales de Iberoamérica (ABINIA), the Association of Iberoamerican National Libraries
• Association for Information and Image Management Services (AIIM)
• Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
• Association of American Publishers
• Association of Canadian Publishers
• Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries / Asociación de Bibliotecas Universitarias, Investigación e Institucionales del Caribe / Association de Bibliothèques Universitaires, de Recherche et Institutionales de la Caraïbe (ACURIL)
• Association of Christian Librarians (ACL)
• Association of Independent Information Professionals
• Association of Jewish Libraries
• Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
• Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
• Associazione italiana biblioteche (AIB) Italian Library Association
• Associazione Italiana Editori
• Australian Library and Information Association
• Australian Society of Indexers
• The Bibliographical Society
• Book Industry Communications (UK) (BIC)
• Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG), including:
  • BISAC Book Industry Systems Advisory Committee
  • SISAC Serials Industry Systems Advisory Committee
• Book Trust Educational charity promoting books and reading
• Booksellers Association of Great Britain and Ireland
• British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL)
• British Association for Information and Library Education and Research (BAILER)
• CARL Corporation
• Canadian Association of Music Libraries
• Canadian Library Association
• Canadian Magazine Publishers Association
• Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
• Children's Book Council, Inc. (CBC)
• Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
• CONSER (Cooperative ONline SERials)
• Copyright Clearance Center Online
• Cornell Institute for Digital Collections (CIDC)
• Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
• Danish Research Library Association
• Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA)
• EDItEUR Pan-European Book Sector EDI Group
• EDUCAUSE Association for managing and using information resources in higher education
• Electronic Literature Organization, facilitating and promoting the writing, publishing, and reading of literature in electronic media
• European Association of Sinological Librarians
• The Finnish Research Library Association
• Friends of Libraries U.S.A.
• Institute of Information Scientists
• International Association of School Librarianship (IASL)
• International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC)
• International DOI Foundation Digital Object Identifier
• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
• International Map Trade Association
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
• ISSN International Standard Serial Number, from Centre International de l'ISSN
• The Internet Library Association (ILA)
• Internet Society
• Libraries for the Future
• The Library Association (United Kingdom)
• Medical Library Association (MLA)
  • Collection Development Section
• Medical Library Association Technical Services Section
• Music Library Association (MLA)
• Music Publishers' Association
• National Acquisitions Group (NAG)
• National Book Critics Circle
• National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
• New England Library Association
• New Zealand Library and Information Association Te Rau Herenga o Aotearoa
• North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG)
• OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
• OnLine Audiovisual Catalogers Inc. (OLAC)
• Professional Organizations in the Information Sciences from the School of Library and Information Science, San Jose State University
• Public Library Association
• Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG)
• Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM)
• Small Publishers Association of North America (SPAN)
• The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP)
• The Society for Scholarly Publishing
• Society of American Archivists
• Society of Archivists
• The Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET)
• Special Libraries Association
• The Swedish Society for Technical Documentation
• Tennessee Library Association
• U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS)
• United Kingdom Serials Group
• WLN formerly Western Library Network
• Wyoming Library Association