Children's Librarians Association of Suffolk County
CLASC Inc., is a professional organization devoted to providing leadership in public library service to children and to promoting the profession of children's librarianship. It works to foster professional relationships among its members and with administrators, library boards of trustees and local communities. CLASC provides a forum for open communication among children's librarians in Suffolk County.



Library of Congress
The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.



Long Island Library Resources Council
The Long Island Library Resources Council (LILRC), one of nine New York State Reference and Research Library Resources System (3Rs), is a multi-type library membership organization that fosters and enhances resource sharing and other cooperative activities among diverse libraries in Nassau and Suffolk counties. An organization chartered and funded by the State, LILRC is also committed to working with library systems and associations in the region and throughout New York, and with the Division of Library Development of the New York State Education Department, to further its goals.
The Council informs members about technological, legislative, political, social, cultural and other developments as they affect libraries. It provides continuing education opportunities and enables member libraries to take advantage of cost-effective means of accessing information resources to better serve their constituencies.

Active committees, composed of library and Council staff members, assure wide participation in LILRC activities and development of programs pertinent to the needs of the membership. LILRC assumes an advocacy role in representing to the Legislature, the business community, and the public at large the value and services of all types of libraries.

LILRC in cooperation with the local library associations and systems has established a calendar of regional library events.



Nassau County Library Association
The Nassau County Library Association is one of the largest active Library groups in the United States and your link to nearly 1,000 colleagues with whom you can share your ideas and work with to improve the status of libraries and library related professions at the local level. Since 1934, the NCLA has been working to promote librarianship and expand awareness of libraries.



New York Library Association
NYLA is affiliated with the American Library Association as the New York Chapter of that national body. Members of the State Association include librarians of public, system, school, college and university and many special libraries, library trustees, and friends of libraries. From a membership of 43 in 1890, the Association has grown to a vital organization of several thousand members, representing not only the libraries of New York State but also including many members, State and institutional, from all over the United States.



Special Libraries Association
The Special Libraries Association's mission is to advance the leadership role of their members in putting knowledge to work for the benefit of decision-makers in corporations, government, the professions, and society; as well as to shape the destiny of our information and knowledge-based society.
The Association emphasizes three priorities based on membership input, research, and Board and staff discussions. These priorities are interrelated - each one influencing and enabling the success of the others. Implicit in each priority are the following fundamental concepts: virtualization and globalization of the association, SLA represents professionals not buildings, members assuming leadership roles in our workplaces, embracing change drives what we do, and making information professionals indispensable.



Suffolk Cooperative Library System
The Suffolk Cooperative Library System is an association created by agreement of the Boards of Trustees of its member libraries, each of which remains autonomous under individual charters from the New York State Board of Regents. Founded in 1961, SCLS is one of 23 public library systems providing services to 740 public libraries throughout New York State. In line with its motto, "Helping Your Local Library Serve Your Community Better," SCLS offers a variety of support services to its 54 member libraries. The service program of the Suffolk Cooperative Library System is the result of a dynamic and responsive process that constantly strives to help our members provide quality service to their patrons.
Driving directions to SCLS are located here.