Welcome to ALAIR

The American Library Association Institutional Repository (ALAIR) is an open access repository, committed to collecting, permanently storing, and providing digital access to the publications and intellectual work of the American Library Association. It is organized into communities reflecting the Divisions, Offices, Committees, and Roundtables that make up ALA.

The ALAIR is managed by the American Library Association Archives at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. We invite ALA staff and members to deposit documents directly into ALAIR. Please contact us for assistance with bulk uploads or for more information about ALAIR.

 

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Recent Submissions

ItemOpen Access
RSC/Chair/2024/15
(RDA Steering Committee, 2024-12-13) Behrens, Renate; Welsh, Anne
Update provided to the RDA Board in June 2024. Published in December when all business confidential matters to which it refers were completed.
ItemOpen Access
IDEABOOK: Libraries for Families
(Harvard Family Research Project, 2016) Weiss, Heather B.; Caspe, Margaret; Lopez, M. Elena; McWilliams, Lorette
A research-based framework to guide and broaden family engagement in libraries. Co-produced by the Harvard Family Research Project (later named the Global Family Research Project) and the Public Library Association.
ItemOpen Access
CC:DA/LC/2025/1 ALA/CORE Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access, Library of Congress Report, February 2025
(2025-02-06) Polutta, Melanie
Staffing Changes in Policy, Training, and Cooperative Programs Division; General Cataloging; Descriptive Cataloging; Controlled vocabularies and Classification