Welcome
Welcome to the ALA Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA) site. ALA-APA is a nonprofit professional organization established “to promote the mutual professional interests of librarians and other library workers.” To that end, the ALA-APA is focused on two broad areas:
Certification of individuals in specializations beyond the initial professional degree.
Direct support of comparable worth and pay equity initiatives, and other activities designed to improve the salaries and status of librarians and other library workers.
What is ALA-APA? (Podcast, 6.23 minutes)
The ALA-APA is a companion organization to the American Library Association (ALA), an educational association established in 1876 to “promote library service and librarianship.”
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2010 Librarian Salary Survey now available at ALA Store and in the Library Salary Database. Mean librarian salary $60,734, median $55,883 in 2010. More
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Does your employer offer workplace wellness initiatives? Do you wish they would? Tell us in the 2009-2010 Library Workplace Wellness online survey! Also, the Workplace Wellness site invites you share your journey.
- Listen to a Certified Public Library Administrator Program graduate – a podcast with Susan Strunk in her own words
- Get REAL Salary Data now in a downloadable formats just for public and just for academic libraries!
- Get a Job! website launched by ALA
