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Capital Area Library Assistants Interest Group

Page containing links to helpful sites.

General Information

The New York State Library Assistants’ Association (NYSLAA) offers many opportunities for library assistants including their annual conference, scholarships and the Certificate of Achievement Program.
Paralibrarians Round Table
Library Workers: Facts & Figures
Library Support Staff Resource Center American Library Association (ALA): Information for and about library support staff and paraprofessionals.
Library Support Staff Round Table: (ALA-LSSIRT) Focuses on a variety of issues of concern to library support staff, including basic training programs, education, career development, job duties and responsibilities and more.

Newsletters and Journals

Library WorkLife Monthly newsletter of the American Library Association-Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA: Organization for the Advancement of Library Employees)
ASSOCIATES: the Electronic Library Support Staff Journal. Published three times a year

ILSs Currently Used by Members

Cataloging Tools

RDA Toolkit: Resource Description and Access was developed by the RDA Steering Committee to replace the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd Edition Revised, which were first published in 1978. RDA is a package of data elements, guidelines, and instructions for creating library and cultural heritage resource metadata that are well-formed according to international models for user-focused linked data applications.

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Subjects: CALA, Interest Groups

Tags: CALA, Library Assistants, Library Support Staff

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