American Indian Library Association - Goals

Goals

According to Loriene Roy's "Retaining Cultural Identity in a Transformed Future: the American Indian Library Association Response to ALA Goal 2000," as excerpted onto the AILA's official website, the American Indian Library Association:

  1. "Promotes the establishment, maintenance, and upgrading of Indian libraries on or near reservations and in other rural and urban areas;
  2. Develops criteria and standards for Indian libraries, and works for their adoption by other associations and accrediting agencies;
  3. Provides technical assistance to Indian tribes on the establishment and maintenance of archival services;
  4. Builds support for the development of Indian information networks, facilitating the exchange of information among Indian tribes, and also among these groups and major institutions maintaining Indian archives;
  5. Educates legislators, public officials, and the general public about the library/information needs of Indians communities;
  6. Brings together those interested in Indian libraries and cultures at ALA conferences and other library and educational conferences;
  7. Helps members of individual Indian communities to gain access to and use existing libraries to their best advantage;
  8. Works to enhance the capability of libraries to assist tribes and individual Indian authors in writing tribal histories and other Indian-related works;
  9. Encourages and helps to coordinate and plan the development of courses, workshops, institutes, and internships on Indian library services;
  10. Develops grant proposals and conducts fund-raising activities to support these and other Indian library projects; and
  11. Helps develop awareness in the majority society that Indian people desire library information resources to help unlock their potential."

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