Editing Library (section)

== Associations ==
{{See also|List of library associations}}
The [[International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions]] (IFLA) is the leading international association of library organizations. It is the global voice of the library and information profession, and its annual conference provides a venue for librarians to learn from one another.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ifla.org/ |title=International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) |website=ifla.org |year=2012 |access-date=3 March 2012 |archive-date=13 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413221659/https://www.ifla.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Library associations in Asia include the [[Indian Library Association]] (ILA),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ilaindia.net |title=Welcome to Indian Library Association |publisher=Ilaindia.net |access-date=9 September 2012 |archive-date=22 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822141728/http://www.ilaindia.net/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centers (IASLIC),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://iaslic1955.org.in |title=Welcome to Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centers |publisher=Iaslic1955.org.in |date=3 September 1955 |access-date=24 February 2022 |archive-date=24 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224103507/https://iaslic1955.org.in/login_up.php?success_redirect_url=%2F |url-status=live }}</ref> Bengal Library Association (BLA), Kolkata,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blacal.org|title=Bengal Library Association|publisher=Blacal.org|access-date=9 September 2012|archive-date=22 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422105152/http://www.blacal.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Pakistan Library Association]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pla.org.pk |title=Pakistan Library Association |publisher=Pla.org.pk |access-date=21 June 2013 |archive-date=8 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708222946/http://www.pla.org.pk/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the Pakistan Librarians Welfare Organization,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://librarianswelfare.org |title=Pakistan Librarians Welfare Organization |publisher=Librarianswelfare.org |access-date=21 June 2013 |archive-date=10 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130610170616/http://librarianswelfare.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the Bangladesh Association of Librarians, Information Scientists and Documentalists, the Library Association of Bangladesh, and the [[Sri Lanka Library Association]] (founded 1960).

National associations of the English-speaking world include the [[American Library Association]], the [[Australian Library and Information Association]], the [[Canadian Library Association]], the [[LIANZA|Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa]], and the [[Research Libraries UK]] (a consortium of 30 university and other research libraries in the United Kingdom). Library bodies such as [[Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals|CILIP]] (formerly the Library Association, founded 1877) may advocate the role that libraries and librarians can play in a modern Internet environment, and in the teaching of [[information literacy]] skills.<ref name="CILIP(2010)">{{cite web |author=CILIP |year=2010 |title=An introduction to information literacy |location=London |website=CILIP |url=https://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/advocacy/learning/information-literacy/pages/introduction.aspx |access-date=13 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616065049/https://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/advocacy/learning/information-literacy/pages/introduction.aspx |archive-date=16 June 2011}}</ref><ref name="Rowlandsetal.(2008)">{{cite journal|last1=Rowlands|first1=Ian|last2=Nicholas|first2=David|last3=Williams|first3=Peter|last4=Huntington|first4=Paul|last5=Fieldhouse|first5=Maggie|last6=Gunter|first6=Barrie|last7=Withey|first7=Richard|last8=Jamali|first8=Hamid R.|last9=Dobrowolski|first9=Tom|last10=Tenopir|first10=Carol|title=The Google generation: the information behaviour of the researcher of the future|journal=ASLIB Proceedings|date=2008|volume=60|issue=4|pages=290–310|doi=10.1108/00012530810887953|s2cid=15674801 }}</ref> The [[Nigerian Library Association]] is the recognized group for librarians working in Nigeria and it was founded in 1962.

[[Public library advocacy]] is support given to a public library for its financial and philosophical goals or needs. Most often this takes the form of monetary or material donations or campaigning to the institutions which oversee the library, sometimes by advocacy groups such as [[Friends of Libraries]] and community members. Originally, library advocacy was centered on the library itself, but current trends show libraries positioning themselves to demonstrate they provide "economic value to the community" in means that are not directly related to the checking out of books and other media.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Miller|first1=Ellen G.|date=2009|title=Hard Times = A New Brand of Advocacy|journal=Georgia Library Quarterly|volume=46|issue=1|doi=10.62915/2157-0396.1269 |url=https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1269&context=glq|access-date=24 February 2022|archive-date=15 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415071049/https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1269&context=glq|url-status=live}}</ref>