Associations & Groups:
Student - Professional - e-mail Lists
Student groups
- UB's American Library Association (ALA) - Student Chapter
Faculty Advisor: Cindi Tysick, Lockwood Library - UB's American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) - Student Chapter
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ying Sun - Graduate Student Association (GSA)
Departmental Club: Library & Information Studies - UB's Special Libraries Association (SLA) - Student Chapter
Faculty Advisor: Karen Kreizman Reczek
Professional Associations
- American Association of School Librarians (AASL)
- Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
- Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP)
- American Library Association (ALA)
- Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS)
- Association for Library Service to Children (ALSE)
- Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
- Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)
- Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA)
- American Theological Library Association (ATLA)
- Beta Phi Mu (International Library Science Honor Society) Beta Delta Chapter
- Black Caucus of the American Librarian Association (BCALA)
- Chinese American Librarian Association (CALA)
- Library & Information Technology Association (LITA)
- Medical Libraries Association (MLA)
- Music Library Association (MLA)
- New York Library Association (NYLA)
- New York State Library - Division of Library Development
- Public Libraries Association (PLA)
- Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)
- Special Libraries Association (SLA)
- Western New York Library Resource Council (WNYLRC)
- Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
*Many of these associations maintain career information sections, job lists and e-Mail lists.
e-mail Lists
The Department of Library and Information Studies maintains several e-mail lists. To join, leave or modify your settings for any of them, visit the appropriate website and follow the directions. You will receive e-mail messages after joining a list.
- Alumni List: LIS-LIST
- Current Student List: UBMLS-LIST
- Job Postings List: LIS-JOBS-LIST
- Rochester area List: LIS-ROCHESTER-LIST
NYLINE List - NYLINE is New York's Libraries Information Network: news from New York Library Association and New York State Library
CataList - catalog of LISTSERV® lists
Various - library-related eMail lists and newsgroups by specialty
