Professional Associations

The School of Library and Information Science has six student chapters of professional associations: ACM, ALA, ASIST, PLG, SAA, and SLA. These chapters provide opportunities to learn about the profession, and to add to your résumé.

Student membership is often an option in professional associations. Look for career information, jobs, journals, conferences, and more in the links below.

• Africana Librarians Council (ALC)
• American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)
  - AALL Job Site
• American Association of School Librarians (AASL)
• American Communication Association (ACA)
• American Indian Library Association (AILA)
• American Library Assocation (ALA)
  - ALA Job Site
  - ALA Student Chapter
• American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
  - AMIA Job Exchange
• American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST)
  - ASIST Career Services
  - ASIST Student Chapter
• American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) - Indiana Chapter
• American Society for Public Administration (ASPA)
• American Society of Indexers (ASI)
• American Theological Library Association (ATLA)
• Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)
• Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  - ACM Job Site
  - ACM Student Chapter
• Association for Indiana Media Educators (AIME)
• Association for Information Systems (AIS)
• Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
  - ALISE Job Site
• Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
• Association of American Publishers, Inc. (AAP)
• Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
• Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP)
• Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)
• Association for Library Trustees and Advocates
• Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA)
• Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
• Beta Phi Mu (International Library and Information Studies Honor Society)
• Beta Phi Mu - Chi Chapter, Indiana
• Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA)
• Center for Research and P-16 Collaboration
• Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)
• Chemistry Division (SLA)
• Chinese-American Library Association (CALA)
• Classification Research - Special Interest Group (ASIST)
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
• Computer-Human Interaction - Special Interest Group (ACM)
• Computing Research Assocition (CRA)
• Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
• Digital Libraries - Special Interest Group (ASIST)
• Diversity Librarians' Network
• Education for Information Science - Special Interest Group (ASIST)
• Electronic Commerce - Special Interest Group (ACM)
• Friends of Libraries, U.S.A.
• History and Foundations of Informatin Science - Special Interest
  Group (ASIST)
• Human Computer Interaction - Special Interest Group (ASIST)
• Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
• Indiana Library Federation (ILF)
• Indiana Online Users Group (IOLUG)
• Information Retrieval - Special Interest Group (ACM)
• Information Technology Association of American (ITAA)
• Institute of Museum and Library Services
• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  - INFORMS Job Site
• International Assoc. for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST)
• International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
• International Society for Informetrics and Scientometrics (ISSI)
• Internet Society (ISOC)
• Library and Information Technology Association (LITA)
• Medical Library Association (MLA)
  - Medical Library Association Job Page
• Midwest Archives Conference
• Middle East Librarians Association (MELA)
• Military Librarians Division (SLA)
• Music Library Association (MLA)
• North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG)
• Progressive Librarians Guild (PLG)
• Public Library Association (PLA)
• Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries
• Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)
• Reforma (National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking)
• Scholarly Societies Project
• Slavic and East European Section (SEES) of the Association of College and Research Libraries
• Society of American Archivists (SAA)
  - SAA Student Chapter
• Society for Information Management (SIM)
• Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP)
  - SCIP Job Page
• Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
• Special Libraries Association (SLA)
  - SLA Indiana
  - SLA Illinois
• Strategic Planning Society (SPS)
• TechPoint (Indiana Technology)
• University and College Computing Services - Special
  Interest Group (ACM)
• United States Agricultural Information Network
• Urban Libraries Council (ULC)
• Visual Resources Association (VRA)
• Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)