Guam Library Association

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{{short description|Professional association for librarians in Guam}}

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| formation = 1965, 1989

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| parent_organization = American Library Association

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The Guam Library Association (GLA) is a professional organization for Guam's librarians and library workers based in Hagatna.{{cite web | title=State and Regional Chapters | website=About ALA | date=August 3, 2006 | url=http://www.ala.org/aboutala/affiliates/chapters/state/stateregional | access-date=February 3, 2021}} It was founded in 1965 and became an affiliate of the American Library Association in 1967, an affiliation which it lost in 1975 and regained sometime in the late 1980s.{{cite news |title=Library Association Wins Affiliation |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/608789523/ |access-date=February 3, 2021 |work=Guam Daily News |date=October 13, 1967 |page=22}}{{cite news |title=ALA Midwinter in Chicago |url=https://archive.org/details/libraryjournal100jan/ |access-date=February 3, 2021 |work=Library Journal |date=March 1, 1975 |pages=427}}{{cite book |title=International handbook of contemporary developments in librarianship |date=1981 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, CT |isbn=0313213720 |page=372 |url=https://archive.org/details/internationalhan0000unse_m6s7/ |access-date=February 3, 2021}} GLA is also a member of the Pacific Islands Association of Libraries, Archives, and Museums.{{cite web | title=Guam hosts regional conference on libraries | website=The Guam Daily Post | date=November 25, 2019 | url=https://www.postguam.com/news/local/guam-hosts-regional-conference-on-libraries/article_7a682c10-0c43-11ea-b8ac-5f3caa61b309.html | access-date=February 3, 2021}} Membership in the association is open to librarians and library workers, but also to the general public who are interested in improving the civilian and military libraries of Guam.{{cite news |title=Art Topic for Library Association |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/608971049/ |access-date=February 3, 2021 |work=Guam Daily News |date=November 10, 1968 |page=2}}

There was an earlier group in Guam also called the Guam Library Association, but it was created in 1947 in order to support the formation of public libraries on Guam.{{cite news |last1=Battle |first1=Lisa |title='All Hands' Helped a Modest Beginning |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/608655009/ |access-date=February 3, 2021 |work=The Territorial Sun News and Views of the Marianas |date=June 23, 1957 |page=10}} GLA was dormant for a period of time in the 1970s and 1980s and officially "re-launched" in 1989.