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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