Student Member Blog
Forty-six Chapters (aka state library associations) partner with ALA to offer students the opportunity to join them and ALA for one low price of $42, now through August 31, 2019. New partners in 2017 were Colorado Association of Libraries, Florida Library Association, Nebraska Library Association, and New Hampshire Library Association. New partners in 2018 are North Dakota Library, Utah Library Association, and West Virginia Library Association. ALA encourages you to join online by completing the secure forms found at the joint membership program page. If you join online, ALA membership and the participating Chapters each receive...
Forty student members of the American Library Association (ALA) will participate in the ALA Student-to-Staff program at the 2019 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC, June 20-June 25. Established in 1973, the program allows 40 students, both ALA members and members of their school's ALA student chapter, to attend and participate in an annual conference in exchange for working 16 hours for ALA staff during the conference. These students also receive free conference registration, housing, and a per diem for meals. Students are selected and nominated by their faculty advisors. Among other criteria, each student must be a current...
Would you like to spend a month studying abroad next summer in beautiful, historic London, while earning graduate course credits? If yes, then join me next June on British Studies 2019, a month-long study abroad program hosted by the Southern Miss School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), for on-site lectures and guided tours of some of the U.K.’s most important and historic libraries, archives, and special collections. The LIS course is offered May 31 - June 30, 2019, and carries six hours of credit from The University of Southern Mississippi, a fully-accredited university. Students participating in the LIS course will...
There are few occasions in one’s career that are ground-breaking. Being selected to represent Wayne State University (WSU) as a Student-to-Staff (S2S) at ALA’s Annual Conference was such an occasion for me. Between June 21-26, I partook in my first conference as an information science student at New Orleans. I was surprised that some ALA members did not know about the S2S program. Briefly, the program was designed in 1973 as an opportunity for students to network and interact with professionals in the field. I was assigned to the International Relations Office (IRO), a division of ALA, devoted to global communities and libraries....
Forty-five Chapters (aka state library associations) partner with ALA to offer students the opportunity to join one of them and ALA for one low price of $40, now through August 31, 2018. Dues increase to $42 on September 1, 2018. ALA encourages you to join and renew online by completing the secure forms found at the joint membership program page. If you join or renew online, ALA membership and the participating Chapters each receive a receipt that day of your having joined! And you save the cost of mailing or faxing your application! These are the 45 state library associations participating in the joint student membership program...
Planning on being a leader in the American Library Association (ALA) after you graduate? Great! For students, the best way to start gaining leadership skills and more is by participating in one of the ALA Student Chapters. Student Chapters enhance students’ ALA membership by providing leadership and programming opportunities on the campuses. Individuals currently enrolled in a traditional or distance program of study in MLS/MLIS, CAEP, or LTA schools are eligible for ALA student membership. Through its Scholarship Program, ALA is committed to promoting and advancing the librarian profession. To demonstrate this...
Your state library association, also known as an ALA Chapter, offers a wide range of benefits and services—and needs your help—and you need its help, as well!—to support libraries in your state. Its members are employed in all types of libraries: academic, public, school, and special. If you're not already a member, strengthen library advocacy by joining today! Indeed, it’s not only a good day to join, with budget cuts and worse directed at libraries in many states, it’s also imperative—now more than ever—to support your state library association’s efforts to advocate for and support libraries, librarians, and library workers...
University of North Carolina at Greensboro Selected as 2018 Student Chapter of the Year Award Winner
The New Members Round Table (NRMT) of the American Library Association Student Chapter of the Year Award Committee (SCOTYA) congratulates the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Library and Information Studies Student Association as the winner of the 2018 ALA Student Chapter of the Year Award. The SCOTYA Committee was impressed by University of North Carolina (UNCG) at Greensboro’s Library and Information Studies Student Association’s outreach to distance education students. The association hosted meetups in several locations for distance students and utilized a variety of tools to communicate with members....