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)