Welcome to Asian Library Association

Welcome to
Asian Library Association

ASIALA

asiala@googlegroups.com

Headquartered at New Delhi, the Asian Library Association (ASIALA) has
been formed to play an important role in the promotion of librarianship as
a profession vital to an informed and knowledgeable society and put
emphasis on the professional development of LIS community through advocacy,
peer networking, and leadership development through many initiatives.

It aims to provide varying avenues for professional development, such as:

- Provide professional leadership and coordination and work in
strategic areas of the profession to further the library profession,
library institutions and library and information services
- To provide the organizational framework in which to discuss future
plans, organize committee activities, promote library studies and surveys,
encourage the development of new tools, issue the resulting publications,
lobby for legislative support, and hold conferences, workshops, and
institutes necessary for substantial accomplishment.
- To help library fraternity to engage in actions which develop group
consciousness and respond to the public interest in ways which achieve
socially and professionally desirable goals
- To be representative and credible, hospitable to a growing diversity
of interests and specializations of library professionals.
- To lobby for favourable governmental policies in respect of culture
and cultural industries, book promotion, education, information, the
information or knowledge society, research and innovation, trade relations
and privatisation all affect libraries

- Development of strong linkages among Libraries in Asian Countries
through discussion, sharing and exchange of ideas
- Promotion of Library and Information Science Profession in Asian
Countries and to collaborate with other National and International agencies
- Providing a common forum to the professionals interested or engaged in
librarianship and information services by holding national and
international conferences, seminars, workshops, training programmes,
Library Development Programmes and publishing Journals, Books and Reports
etc.

Join

asiala@googlegroups.com

For more details please visit

www.asiala.in

For membership form , please email on asianlibraryassociation@gmail.com

Dr.Sanjeev Kumar
General Secretary
ASIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION (ASIALA)
53.Ekjot Apartments, Road N0 44 Pitampura, New Delhi 10034 India
Email: asianlibraryassociation@gmail.com