Division and Cluster Committees
Committee Meetings at ALA Annual Conference 2003
PLA’s new bylaws went into effect at the close of the 1998 ALA Annual Conference. PLA’s sections merged into three clusters: Library Services, Library Development, and Issues and Concerns. Each cluster will be managed by a steering committee consisting of six members. Two members of the steering committee will be elected each year for three-year terms. Each steering committee will have a chair and a vice chair. Each officer will serve a one-year term.To be effective, PLA must have committed, active, and able committee members. If you are interested in volunteering to serve on a committee, please go to the Committee Volunteer Form. Feel free to call the PLA office (1-800-545-2433, ext. 5PLA) for more information.
Division-Wide Committees
- Awards
- Advancement of Literacy Award Jury
- Allie Beth Martin Award Jury
- Baker and Taylor Entertainment Audio Music/Video Project Award Jury
- Charlie Robinson Award Jury
- Demco Creative Merchandising Grant
Jury
- Excellence in Small and/or Rural
Public Library Service Award Jury
- The Highsmith Library Innovation
Award Jury
- New Leaders Travel Grant Jury
- Advancement of Literacy Award Jury
- Budget and Finance
- Bylaws and Organization
- Certified Public
Library Administrator Implementation Task Force (PLA/LAMA/ALSC)
- Conference Program Coordinating (project)
- Electronic Communications Advisory
- Leadership Development (project)
- Membership
- National Conference (project)
- Nominating (project)
- PLA/ALSC Task Force on Preschool Literacy Initiatives
- PLA Monographs
- PLA Partners
- President’s Events (project)
- Public Libraries Advisory
- Statistical Report Advisory
- State Relations
- University Press Books
for Public Libraries
Issues and Concerns Cluster
- Intellectual Freedom
- International Relations
- Legislation
- Library Confidentiality
- Public Policy in Public Libraries
- Recruitment of Public Librarians
- Research and Statistics
- Workload Measures and Staffing Patterns
Library Development Cluster
- Branch Libraries
- Marketing Public Libraries
- Metropolitan Libraries
- Practical Applications of Technology
in Public Libraries
- Public Library Systems
- Rural Library Services
- Small and Medium-Sized Libraries
- Technology in Public Libraries
Library Services Cluster
- Adult Continuing and Independent Learning
Services
- Audiovisual
- Basic Education and Literacy Services
- Cataloging Needs of Public Libraries
- Collection Management
- Community Information
Services
- Job and Career Information Services
- Reader's Advisory
- Resources for the Adult New Reader
- Services to Elementary Schoool Age Children
and their Caregivers
- Services to Multicultural Populations
- Services to to Preschool Children and their Caregivers
- Services to Teenagers and their Caregivers