CALA focuses on issues facing library support staff and represents those working in academic, public, school or special libraries in non-librarian positions.
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
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.
