The American Library Association is a professional association for library and information services, employees in the field, board members, friends and publishers.
Membership is open to any individual or institution interested in libraries.
The association is also charged with accrediting library professional graduate school programs. The use of a computer workstation that is linked to a telecommunications system network to route interlibrary loan requests and their responses rapidly in an electronic format. In Kansas, there are two basic automated interlibrary loan systems. OCLC is the online, international system used by the regional systems and resource libraries. This is a high-speed line or series of connections that forms a major pathway within a network.