Directory of Associations and Organizations
These are associations and organizations of interest to Collection Development and Acquisitions Librarians:
- American Association of Law Libraries, (AALL) AALLNET
- American Booksellers Association, BookWeb
- American Library Association, (ALA)
- American Medical Informatics Association
- American National Standards Institute, (ANSI)
- American Society for Information Sciences, (ASIS)
- American Society of Indexers, (ASI)
- American Theological Library Association, (ATLA)
- Art Libraries Society of North America
- Association for Library and Information Science Education, (ALISE)
- Association of Canadian Publishers
- 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
- Book Industry Study Group, Inc., (BISG) including:
- Book Trust, educational charity promoting books and reading
- Booksellers Association of Great Britain and Ireland
- British and Irish Association of Law Librarians, (BIALL)
- Canadian Library Association
- Canadian Magazine Publishers Association
- 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)
- 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
- Friends of Libraries U.S.A.
- IdeaList, a directory of nonprofit websites, from the Contact Center Network
- Institute of Information Scientists
- 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
- Internet Society
- Medical Library Association, (MLA)
- Music Library Association (MLA)
- National Acquisitions Group, (NAG)
- 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)
- Public Library Association
- Small Publishers Association of North America, (SPAN)
- Society of American Archivists
- Society of Archivists
- Special Libraries Association
- United Kingdom Serials Group
- WLN, formerly Western Library Network
- Wyoming Library Association
Other helpful lists include:
- IdeaList, a directory of nonprofit websites, from the Contact Center Network
- Scholarly Societies, from University of Waterloo. A large, well-organized electronic guide, which includes essays on publishing issues