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Committee service

ALA has standing, special, interdivisional, joint, and ad hoc committees. Standing committees are designated as committees of the Association or committees of Council. Each division and round table may also create committees and other working groups to carry out the work of the division or round table.

Committees of the Association:

  • Accreditation 
  • American Libraries Advisory 
  • Appointments
  • Awards
  • Chapter Relations
  • Conference
  • Constitution and Bylaws
  • Election
  • (Office for) Human Resource Development and Recruitment Advisory
  • (Office for) Information Technology Policy Advisory
  • Literacy
  • (Office for) Literacy and Outreach Services Advisory
  • Membership
  • Membership Meetings
  • Nominating Committee
  • Orientation, Training and Leadership Development
  • Public and Cultural Programs Advisory
  • Research and Statistics
  • Round Table Coordinating Assembly
  • Rural, Native, and Tribal Libraries of All Kinds 
  • Scholarships and Study Grants 
  • Website Advisory

Committees of Council:

Appointments to committees of Council are made by the Council  Committee on Committees, in cooperation with the ALA president-elect who, as chair of the Committee on Committees, appoints the chairpersons of Council committees.

  • Budget Analysis and Review
  • Committee on Committees
  • Council Orientation
  • Diversity
  • Education
  • Intellectual Freedom
  • International Relations
  • Legislation
  • Organization
  • Policy Monitoring
  • Professional Ethics
  • Public Awareness
  • Publishing
  • Resolutions
  • Status of Women in Librarianship

Joint committees:

The following joint committees have been established by Council action in accordance with Bylaws Article VIII, Section 5. Joint committees are of two types: (1) those established between ALA and an outside organization, in which case the ALA Executive Board is the appointing authority (the Board may ask a unit of the Association to name representatives to the joint committee) and (2) those established between a unit of ALA and an outside organization, in which case the appointing authority is the designated unit.

  • ALA–Association of American Publishers
  • ALA–Children’s Book Council
  • ALA/SAA/AAM– American Library Association/Society of American Archivists/American Association of Museums