Brief Description: Committee files including appointment papers, lists, correspondence, reports and publications of standing, joint liaison and ad hoc committees of the AASL and related professional organizations relating to organization, bylaws, conferences, censorship, publications, selection of materials, awards, services, professional development, School Library Media Quarterly and affiliate associations.

Record Series Number: 20/2/51

Created by: American Association of School Librarians (AASL) (1915-)

Volume: 16.0 Cubic Feet

Acquired: 3/21&24/89; 4/7/89; 10/7/94; 4/18/96; 2/6/95; 9/9/02; 3/22/2010; 4/20/2012

Arrangement: Alphabetical by committee

Biographical Note for American Association of School Librarians (AASL) (1915-) :

The first annual meeting of the School Libraries Section was held in East Hall, University of California, at 9:30 Saturday morning, June 5, 1915, with an attendance of 250. In the opening meeting, the purpose of the section was outlined. "The school library being one of the great problems of library endeavor, it is fitting that there should be a section in the American Library Association devoted to the discussion of work with all classes of schools" (1).

The American Association of School Librarians (ASSL) is interested in "the general improvement and extension of library services for children and young people."

The American Association of School Libraries became a division of ALA on January 1, 1951. Formerly it was a section of the Division of Libraries for Children and Young People; and before 1941 it was the School Libraries Section of ALA organized in 1915 (2).

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