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Division and Cluster Committees

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 your committee wants to submit a an idea for a PLA product, please use the Product Proposal Form.  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 New Leaders Travel Grant Jury
  • Excellence in Small and/or Rural Public Library Service Award Jury
  • Gordon M. Conable Award Jury
  • Highsmith Library Innovation Award Jury
  • PLA Institutional Scholarship Award Jury 
  • Polaris Innovation in Technology John Iliff Award Jury 
• Budget and Finance
• Bylaws and Organization
• Conference Program Coordinating (project)
• Electronic Communications Advisory  
• Leadership Development (project)
• Membership
• National Conference (project)
  • Local Arrangements Subcommittee
  • Program Subcommittee
• Nominating (project)
• PLA/ALSC Task Force on Preschool Literacy Initiatives
• PLA @ Your Library Campaign Task Force
• PLA Monographs
• PLA Partners
• President’s Events (project)
• Public LibrariesAdvisory 
• Statistical Report Advisory
• University Press Books for Public Libraries
  

Issues and Concerns Cluster

• Intellectual Freedom
• International Relations
• Legislation
• 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 Resources and Services
• Career and Business Services
• Cataloging Needs of Public Libraries
• Collection Management
• Community Information Services
• Reader's Advisory
• 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

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