LIBRARY ASSOCIATION/INSTITUTION – YEAR – HEADQUARTER

American Library Association (ALA) – 1876 - Chicago, Illinois, USA

Library Association (LA)-1877-London, UK

Special Libraries Association (SLA) – 1909 – Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) – 1915- USA

All India Public Library Association – 1919 -

Association for Information Management (ASLIB) – 1924 – Bingley, UK

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) – 1932- Washington, DC

All India Rural Library Association – 1933 -

Government of India Library Association (GILA) – 1933 -

Indian Library Association (ILA) – 1933 – New Delhi

The Society of American Archivists (SAA) – 1936 -

American Society for Information Science (ASIS) – 1937 -

All India Manuscripts Library Association - 1944

The Canadian Library Association (CLA) – 1946 – Ottawa, Canada

Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centers (IASLIC) – 1955- Kolkata

West Bengal College Librarian's Association – 1962 - Kolkata

All India College Library Association – 1966-

Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS) – 1969 - Patiala, Punjab

Society for Information Science (SIS) – 1969 -

The Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation (RRRLF) – 1972 – Kolkata

Kerala Library Association (KLA) – 1972 – Thruvananthapuram

Medical Library Association of India (MALI) – 1980 – New Delhi

Central Government Library Association (CGLA) – 2004 -Dehradun