Professional & Student Associations
Campus Based Student Organizations
GLISSA is the SLIS organization that represents all our students. Every SLIS student is a member, whether they are taking classes in Baton Rouge or at a distance education site. Officers are elected by the students to plan events and work with the SLIS faculty. GLISSA members are appointed to serve on SLIS Faculty Committees and officers are invited to attend SLIS Faculty Meetings.
Student Chapters of Professional Organizations
- American Library Association (ALA)
- Society of American Archivists Student Chapter (SAA)
- SLA/ASIS&T Student Organizations
- The Medical Library Association -"Virtual Student Group"
Student chapters of national library and information science organizations are supported by the SLIS. Currently there are student chapters of the American Library Association, the American Society for Information Science, the Society of American Archivists and the Special Libraries Association. SLIS students are eligible to join the Association for Computing Machinery and the Data Processing Management Association sponsored by the Department of Computer Science.
National Professional Organizations
Students should take advantage of great student membership rates for National Professional Organizations:
- American Association of Law Libraries
- American Library Association
- American Society for Information Science and Technology
- Medical Library Association
- Society of American Archivists
- Special Libraries Association
Local Professional Organizations
- Louisiana Archives and Manuscripts Association
- Louisiana Library Association
- LaSoMi - the Louisiana/Southern Mississippi Chapter of the Special Library Association
- South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association
- National Network of Libraries of Medicine/South Central Region
- Health Sciences Library Association of Louisiana
