Louisiana Library Association

This corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively to encourage, advance, support, and otherwise promote the interests of libraries in the state of louisiana (academic, public, school, and special), including, without limitation: to encourage, advance, and support high quality library collections, facilities, and services that are fully adequate to support instruction, research, self-education, and pleasure-reading in order that the residents of louisiana may be well-informed and able to achieve full self-development; through conferences, lectures, newsletters, workshops and the like, to encourage and support librarians and other members of the profession in their efforts to maintain and advance their knowledge of and skills in the field of library and information science, as that field continues to develop; to encourage and support scholarship in the field of library and information science; to recruit individuals to the library profession;