Arizona Library Association

{{Short description|Professional organization}}

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| nickname = AzLA

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| formation = {{start date and age|1926|11|12}}

| founder = Estelle Lutrell, Con Cronin

| founding_location = Phoenix, Arizona

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| parent_organization = American Library Association

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The Arizona Library Association (AzLA) is a professional organization for Arizona's librarians and library workers. It is headquartered in Tucson, AZ.{{cite web | title=Arizona Library Association | website=Arizona Library Association | date=2018-08-29 | url=https://www.azla.org/ | access-date=2020-02-14}} It was founded on November 12, 1926, in Phoenix, by Estelle Lutrell and State Librarian Con Cronin.{{cite web | title=Miss Estelle Lutrell: an exhibit about UA Library History | website=University of Arizona Libraries | url=http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/lutrell/early_years.html | access-date=2020-02-14}}{{cite web | title=Estelle Lutrell papers, 1915–1947 | website=azarchivesonline.org | url=http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/uoa/UAAZ055.xml | access-date=2020-02-14}} Cronin was elected as the organization's first president.{{cite news |title=State Librarian is Elected President |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/162603698/ |accessdate=14 February 2020 |work=Arizona Daily Star |volume=85|issue=317 |date=November 13, 1926 |location=Tucson, AZ |page=1}} Lutrell was a secretary of AzLA from 1926–1930 and elected president in 1931.{{cite book | last=Hildenbrand | first=S. | last2=Clifford | first2=G.J. | title=Reclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women in | publisher=Ablex Pub. | series=Contemporary Studies in Information Management, Policies, and Services Series | year=1996 | isbn=978-1-56750-233-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IfRuE1XatIQC&pg=PA72 | access-date=2020-02-14 | page=72}}

AzLA has developed statewide materials purchasing contracts, provides continuing education credits for school librarians, and creates regional forums for obtaining statewide input to the association. AzLA is a sponsor the Horner Fellowship (est. 1989) and the Snowbird Leadership Institute, for younger librarians.{{cite web | title=The Horner Fellowship and Horner Fellowship Committee | website=Arizona Library Association | date=2018-08-29 | url=https://www.azla.org/page/hornerfellowship | access-date=2020-02-14}} AzLA publishes the AzLA Newsletter (ISSN 0515-0272).{{cite web | last=Kortemeier | first=Sarah | title=AzLA Newsletter | website=AzLA Newsletter | date=2013-01-22 | url=http://newsletter.azla.org/ | access-date=2020-02-14}}