Public Libraries

This group will foster a learning community between and among public library directors. 

A community designed for librarians of South Texas to share resources and create collaborative projects.

All librarians are welcome to join in on this ALA Connect Community.

This group provides a discussion forum for branch managers in public libraries.

Provides a forum for exchanging information and discussing issues related to public library technical services functions. Open to all librarians interested in technical services activities, including acquisitions, cataloging and classification, processing, preservation and bindery activities, and technical services management.

A professional networking and collaboration community for METRO member librarians aimed at catalyzing connections and building relationships between, around, and within a diverse community of institutions.

To make all librarians, library employees, library patrons savvy consumers of Social Media in today's information zeitgeist.

Provides a forum for the informal exchange of information and the discussion of issues of mutual interest relating to reference services in public libraries of all sizes.

Provides a forum for the discussion of current and emerging technologies: their development, implementation, management, staffing, value in the contexts of customer experience, and education in public libraries.

Provides a forum for the discussion of cooperative or collaborative projects that link schools and local public libraries.

Provides a discussion forum for librarians and others whose interests include selection, collection development, and collection management in public libraries of all sizes.