LIS-Related Professional Organizations

The following is an alphabetical listing of some professional organizations that you might see fit to join during your educational or professional career. Please be aware that there are many more organizations out there for various specialties and regions.

• ALA - American Library Association


• AALL – American Association of Law Libraries


• AASL - American Association for School Librarians


• ASIS - American Society for Information Science


• AMIA - American Medical Informatics Association


• ACRL - Association of College and Research Libraries


• ACM - Association for Computing Machinery


• ALCTS - Association for Library Collections and Technical Services


• ARL - Association of Research Libraries


• ASI - American Society for Indexing


• ARMA - Association of Records Managers and Administrators, Inc.


• LITA - Library and Information Technology Association


• MLA - Medical Library Association


• PLA - Public Libraries Association


• SAA - Society of American Archivists


• SSA - Society of Southwest Archivists


• SLA - Special Libraries Association


• TLA - Texas Library Association