American Theological Library Association

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The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) is a professional organization of religious and theological libraries in the United States with more than 800 members. ATLA was founded in 1946 and is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization incorporated in the state of Illinois.

1 Mission Statement
2 Publications
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Mission Statement

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The mission of the American Theological Library Association is to foster the study of theology and religion by enhancing the development of theological and religious libraries and librarianship. In pursuit of this mission, the Association undertakes:

To foster the professional growth of its members, and to enhance their ability to serve their constituencies as administrators and librarians;
To advance the profession of theological librarianship, and to assist theological librarians in defining and interpreting the proper role and function of libraries in theological education;
To promote quality library and information services in support of teaching, learning, and research in theology, religion, and related disciplines and to create such tools and aids (including publications) as may be helpful in accomplishing this; (and)
To stimulate purposeful collaboration among librarians of theological libraries and religious studies collections; and to develop programmatic solutions to information-related problems common to those librarians and collections.^[1]

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[edit] Publications

ATLA Newsletter (quarterly)
Summary of Proceedings (annual)
Theology Cataloging Bulletin (quarterly)

ATLA also issues various bibliographic resources, indexes to periodicals, multi-author works, and book reviews in religion. These include the ATLA Religion Database, and ATLA Serials (ATLAS), a collection of major religion and theology journals, launched in 2001. ATLAS has fully digitized article text going back to 1949. [1]