American Library Association (ALA)

• Autores: Mary W. Ghikas
• Localización: Encyclopedia of library and information sciences / coord. por Marcia J. Bates, Vol. 1, 2010 (Academic-Catalogs), págs. 70-87
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The American Library Association (ALA) was founded in 1876 in Philadelphia, at a conference held at the Pennsylvania Historical Society. The defined purposes of the ALA are fundamentally public service purposes�primarily public and educational, rather than professional. ALA is, therefore, characterized as a nonprofit corporation under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service code and has, from its formation, been open to �any person, library, or other organization interested in library service and librarianship�upon payment of the dues provided for in the Bylaws.�