Back جمعية المكتبات الأمريكية Arabic American Library Association Catalan American Library Association German Αμερικάνικη Ένωση Βιβλιοθηκών Greek Asociación de Bibliotecas de Estados Unidos Spanish انجمن کتابخانه آمریکا Persian American Library Association Finnish American Library Association French איגוד הספריות האמריקאי HE Asosiasi Perpustakaan Amerika Serikat ID
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| Abbreviation | ALA |
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| Formation | October 6, 1876 |
| Type | Nonprofit NGO |
| Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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Region served | United States |
Membership (2023) | 48,008[1] |
| Leslie Burger | |
| Cindy Hohl[2] | |
Budget | $55 million[3] |
| Staff | approx. 300 |
| Website | www |
The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world.[4][5]
- ^ ALA Annual Membership Statistics. Archived April 9, 2024 at Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20240409035701/https://www.ala.org/membership/updates. Accessed June 15, 2024.
- ^ Executive Board. American Library Association.
- ^ "Financials". ala.org. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012.
- ^ Ghikas, Mary W. (2018). "The American Library Association," pp. 66-84 In McDonald, John D., and Michael Levine-Clark, eds. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. Fourth edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2018.
- ^ ALA Membership Statistics, 1900-2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20240409035701/https://www.ala.org/membership/updates. Wayback machine. Accessed June 14, 2024