List of ALA open discussion groups, forums & interest groups

• Cataloging Issues (ACRL AFAS)
• Cataloging Issues (ACRL WESS)
• Collection Development (ACRL RBMS)
• Collections (ACRL LES)
• Continuing Education/Professional Development (ACRL)
• Copyright (ACRL)
• Academic Libraries Accessibility and Disability Services (ASCLA LSSPS)
• Acquisitions Managers and Vendors (ALCTS AS)
• Anime (YALSA)
• Anthropology Librarians (ACRL ANSS)
• Assistants-to-the-Director (LLAMA)
• Audiovisual (PLA)
• Australian, Canadian, New Zealand Studies (ACRL)
• Authority Control in the Online Environment (LITA/ALCTS)
• Automated Acquisitions/In-Process Control Systems (ALCTS)
• Balancing Baby and Book (ACRL)
• Bookmobile Service (PLA)
• Branch Coordinators (PLA)
• Branch Managers (PLA)
• Business Reference Services (RUSA BRASS)
• Campus Administration and Leadership (ACRL ULS)
• Catalog Form and Function (ALCTS)
• Catalog Management (ALCTS CCS)
• Cataloging and Classification Research (ALCTS CCS)
• Cataloging Norms (ALCTS CCS)
• Central Libraries (PLA)
• Chief Collection Development Officers of Large Research Libraries (ALCTS CMDS)
• Children’s Books (ALSC)
• Circulation/Access Services (LAMA SASS)
• Classical, Medieval and Renaissance (ACRL WESS)
• Collection Development Issues for the Practitioner (ALCTS CMDS)
• Collection Development Librarians of Academic Libraries (ALCTS CMDS)
• Collection Management in Public Libraries (RUSA CODES / ALCTS)
• Collections of Children’s Books for Adult Research (ALSC)
• College and Medium-sized Libraries (ACRL WESS)
• College Library Directors (ACRL CLS)
• College Science Librarians (ACRL STS)
• Community Information and Referral (PLA)
• Consultants for Service to Children and Young People (ASCLA SLAS)
• Consumer and Family Studies (ACRL)
• Copy Cataloging (ALCTS CCS)
• Creative Ideas in Technical Services (ALCTS)
• Criminal Justice/Criminology (ACRL ANSS)
• Curators and Conservators (ACRL RBMS)
• Current Topics (ACRL ULS)
• Dance Librarians (ACRL Arts)
• Development Issues (LLAMA FRFDS)
• Digital Libraries Technologies (LITA)
• Disability Services Interest Group (ACRL)
• Distance Learning (ACRL DLS)
• Distance Learning (LITA)
• Diversity Officers (LAMA)
• DLS (ACRL DLS)
• Dual Assignments (RUSA CODES)
• Electronic Publishing/Electronic Journal (LITA)
• Electronic Reserves (ACRL)
• Electronic Resources (ALCTS)
• Electronic Resources Management (ALCTS/LITA)
• Emerging Issues Program (PLA)
• Emerging Technologies (LITA)
• Exhibits and Displays in College Libraries (ACRL)
• Fee-Based Information Service Centers in Academic Libraries (ACRL)
• Film/Broadcast Studies Librarians (ACRL Arts)
• Fiscal and Business Officers (LLAMA LOMS)
• Gaming (YALSA)
• Genealogy and Local History (RUSA HS)
• General (ACRL WESS)
• Germanists (ACRL WESS)
• Gifts and Exchange (ALCTS AS)
• Heads of Cataloging Departments (ALCTS CCS)
• Heads of Library Technology (LITA)
• Heads of Public Libraries/Services (ACRL)
• Health Sciences Interest Group (ACRL)
• History Librarians (RUSA HS)
• Hot Topics (ACRL STS)
• Hot Topics in Electronic Reference (RUSA MARS)
• Hot Topics in Frontline Reference (RUSA)
• Human Resources (PLA)
• Human/Machine Interface (LITA)
• Humanities Programming (PLA)
• Imagineering (LITA)
• Information Commons (ACRL)
• Interiors (LLAMA BES)
• Interlibrary Cooperation (ASCLA ICAN)
• Interlibrary Loan (RUSA MOUSS)
• Internet Resources (LITA)
• Job and Career Information Services (PLA)
• Librarianship in For-Profit Educational Institutions (ACRL)
• Library and Information Science Collections (ACRL)
• Library Consortia/Automated Systems (LITA)
• Library Development (ACRL)
• Library Facilities Planning (LLAMA BES)
• Library Safety/Security (LLAMA BES)
• Library Service to Developmentally Disabled Persons (ASCLA LSSPS)
• Library Service to People with Visual or Physical Disabilities (ASCLA LSSPS)
• Library Service to Prisoners (ASCLA LSSPS)
• Library Service to the Deaf (ASCLA LSSPS)
• Library Service to the Impaired Elderly (ASCLA LSSPS)
• Library Service to the Sandwich Generation (PLA)
• Library Storage (LLAMA)
• Literacy (PLA)
• LSTA Coordinators (ASCLA SLAS)
• MAGERT Cartographic Resources Cataloging (ALCTS CCS)
• Managers in MARS (RUSA MARS)
• Managing Children’s Services (ALSC)
• Manuscripts and Other Formats (ACRL RBMS)
• MARC for Special Collections (ACRL RBMS)
• MARC Formats (LITA/ALCTS)
• Media Resources (ACRL)
• Medium-sized Academic Libraries (ACRL CLS)
• Medium-sized Libraries (ACRL)
• Microcomputer Users (LITA)
• Middle Management (LLAMA)
• MLA International Bibliography in Academic Libraries (ACRL)
• Moving Libraries (LLAMA BES)
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (AASL)
• Network Management (ASCLA ICAN)
• Networked Resources & Management (ALCTS)
• New Members (ACRL LES)
• New Members (ACRL)
• Newspaper (ALCTS)
• Open Source Systems (LITA)
• Organizational Development (LLAMA LOMS)
• Out of Print (ALCTS)
• Performance Issues for Reference/Information Librarians (RUSA MOUSS)
• Personnel Administrators and Staff Development Officers (ACRL)
• Philosophical, Religious and Theological Studies (ACRL)
• Popular Culture and Libraries (ACRL)
• Preschool Services (ALSC)
• Public Library Affiliates (PLA)
• Public Library Districts (PLA)
• Public Library-School Partnership (ALSC)
• Public Service Directors of Large Research Libraries (ACRL ULS)
• Public Services (ACRL RBMS)
• Publisher/Vendor Library Relations (ALCTS)
• Publisher/Vendor Relations (ACRL STS)
• Reference (ACRL LES)
• Reference Services in Large Research Libraries (RUSA MOUSS)
• Reference Services in Medium-sized Research Libraries (RUSA MOUSS)
• Regional Campus Libraries (ACRL)
• Research (ACRL)
• Residency Interest Group (ACRL)
• Role of the Professional in Academic Research Technical Services (ALCTS)
• Romance Languages (ACRL WESS)
• Scandinavian (ACRL WESS)
• Scholarly Communication (ACRL)
• Scholarly Communications (ALCTS)
• Science and Technology Resources in Public Libraries (PLA)
• Secure Systems and Services (LITA)
• Senior Administrators (ACRL)
• Serials Automation (LITA/ALCTS)
• Serving Young Adults in Large Urban Populations (YALSA)
• Social Issues (ALSC)
• Social Sciences and History (ACRL WESS)
• Sociology Librarians (ACRL ANSS)
• Special Topics (ACRL WESS)
• Sports and Recreation (ACRL)
• State Agency Consultants to Institutional Libraries (ASCLA SLAS)
• Storytelling (ALSC)
• Students (YALSA)
• Teaching Young Adult Literature (YALSA)
• Technical Services Administrators of Medium-sized Research Libraries (ALCTS)
• Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries (ALCTS)
• Technical Services in Public Libraries (ALCTS)
• Technical Services Workflow Efficiency (ALCTS)
• Technical Services Workstations (LITA/ALCTS)
• Technology and the Arts (LITA)
• Teen Music Interest Group (YALSA)
• Undergraduate Librarians (ACRL)
• Union Relations for Managers (LLAMA HRS)
• Urban University Libraries (ACRL ULS)
• Virtual Library (ASCLA ICAN)
• Virtual Reference (RUSA MARS)
• Women Administrators (LLAMA)
• Work with Volunteers (PLA)