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Are you interested in meeting other Library Support Staff or Library Professionals? Below is just a short list of networking and professional development opportunities that you may enjoy!

Library Support Staff Organizations

• ALA-APA (American Library Association- Allied Professional Association) promoting “the mutual professional interests of librarians and other library workers.
• ASSOCIATES the Electronic Library Support Staff Journal. Published three times a year
• Library Support Staff Resource Center American Library Association (ALA) 
       Information for and about library support staff and paraprofessionals.
• Library Support Staff Round Table (ALA-LSSIRT) Focuses on a variety of issues of concern to library support staff, including basic training programs, education, career development, job duties and responsibilities and more.
• ACRL-CJCLS Library Technical Assistant Education Committee (LTAEC) 

Library Professional Associations

• American Library Association (www.ala.org)
  • Member Groups and Committees: 
    • Public Library Association    
    • American Association of School Librarians
    • Association of College and Research Libraries
• California Library Association www.cla-net.org
• California School Library Association https://csla.net
• Reforma - Los Angeles Chapter https://reformala.org
• Special Libraries Association www.sla.org

Education for Librarianship

• Library Certificate and Master's Degree Programs (American Library Association)
  ​Fully Online programs in California: 
  • Cuesta College - Library Information Technology
  • Fresno City College - Library Technology 
  • Long Beach City College - Library Technician 
• The Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC )    (American Library Association) 

Library Terminology

• ODLIS - Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science by Joan M. Reitz

Selected Library Training Organizations.

There's always more to learn about libraries and archives! Here are just a few places that offer library-related webinars, workshops, and courses!

INFOPEOPLE

InfoPeople offers on-ground training, online courses and webinars. Materials from past training is archived on the website
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