Portal:American Library Association

Works

• The School Library: a necessity in modern education (1923)

Periodicals

• Bulletin of the American Library Association
• Public Libraries (1896–present)

Proceedings

• The Buffalo Public Library in 1983 (1883) by C. A. Cutter in Papers and Proceedings of the Sixth General Meeting of the American Library Association
• The Question of Library Training (1905) by Lutie Eugenia Stearns
• Rational Library Work with Children and the Preparation for It (1905) by Frances Jenkins Olcott

As publisher

• Traveling Libraries (1902), by Frank Avery Hutchins

Manual of Library Economy Series

Including an incomplete listing of edition years.

• 1: American Library History (1919), by Charles Knowles Bolton
• 2: Library of Congress (1911), by James Ingersoll Wyer
• 3: The State Library, by William Warner Bishop
• 4: The College and University Library (1921, revised 1928), by James Ingersoll Wyer
• 5: Proprietary and Subscription Libraries (1912, revised 1917), by Charles Knowles Bolton
• 6: The Free Public Library (1914), by Isabel Ely Lord
• 7: The High-School Library (1915), by Gilbert O. Ward
• 8: Special Libraries (1915), by R. H. Johnston
• 9: Library Legislation (1921), by William Frederick Yust
• 10: The Library Building (1912, revised 1918), by W. R. Eastman
• 11: Circulation Work (1927), by Carl Vitz
• 12: Training of Librarianship (1911, 1920, 1928), by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
• 13: Administration of a Public Library (1913, 1920, 1923), by Mary Wright Plummer
• 14: Library Service (1931), by Emma V. Baldwin
• 15: Branch Libraries and other Distributing Agencies (1911, 1923) by Linda A. Eastman IA
• 16: Book Selection (1915, 1922, 1925, 1930), by Elva L. Bascom
• 17: Order and Accession Department (1911–1930), by F. F. Hopper and Carl L. Cannon
• 18: Classification (1916, 1925), by Corinne Bacon
• 19: The Catalog (1927), by Harriet E. Howe
• 20: Shelf Department (1911, 1918, 1930), by Josephine Adams Rathbone IA
• 21: Loan Work (1919), by Carl Vitz
• 22: The Reference Department (1929), by Charles F. McCombs,
• 23: Government Documents (State and City) (1915, 1922), by James Ingersoll Wyer IA
• 24: Bibliography (1915), by Isadore Gilbert Mudge IA
• 25: Pamphlets and Minor Library Material (1917), by James Ingersoll Wyer IA
• 26: Bookbinding (1911), by Arthur L. Bailey (external scan)
• 27: Commissions, State Aid and State Agencies (1913, 1923), by Asa Wynkoop IA
• 28: Classification (1919, 1923), by Corinne Bacon
• 29: Library Work with Children (1915), by Clara Whitehill Hunt
• 30: Library Work with the Blind (1915, 1930), by Mary C. Chamberlain
• 31: Publicity for Small Libraries (1929), by Carl L. Cannon
• 32: Library Printing (1923), by Frank K. Walter

Handbook Series

• 3: Management of Traveling Libraries (1907), by Edna D. Bullock IA

Works about the ALA

• "A. L. A. and other library associations" in A Library Primer (1899) by John Cotton Dana
• "Address to the Library Association" in Essays in librarianship and bibliography (1899) by Richard Garnett

Presidents

• 1876–1885: Justin Winsor
• 1885–1887: William Frederick Poole
• 1887–89: Charles Ammi Cutter
• 1890–91: Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey
• 1891–92: William Isaac Fletcher
• 1898 (Jan–Aug): Herbert Putnam
• 1915–16: Mary Wright Plummer
• 1918–19: William Warner Bishop