Professional associations seek to further a particular profession through representing members' interests and protecting the public interest. They maintain standards in their field through activities like developing educational programs, certifying professionals, publishing research, and advising on legislation. Library professional associations specifically aim to promote the profession through conferences, training, publications, developing standards, and advising the government to advocate for libraries and their role in society.

1. UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE
DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
MANASAGANGOTHRI
MYSORE
SEMINAR
TOPIC:- PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS –
OBJECTIVES AND FUNCTIONS,
ROLE OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS IN LIBRARY
DEVELOPMENT

2. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
A professional associations (also called professional
body, professional organization, or professional
society) is usually a non profit organization seeking
the further a particular profession the interests of
individual engaged in that profession, and the public
interest.
Profession means an occupation, especially one
requiring extensive education in a branch of science
are the liberal arts. The oxford English dictionary
define a profession as “a vocation in which a
professed knowledge of some departments of
learning or science is used in its application to the
affairs of others or in the practice of an art founded
open it.”

3. The role of these professional associations have been variously
defined “A group of people in a learned occupation who are
entrusted with maintaining control or over sight of the leg mate
practice of the occupation” also a body acting “to safe guard the
public interest “ organization which “represent the interest of the
professional practitioners,” and so act to maintain their own
privileged and power full position as a control body.” This, in turn,
place the burdens of enforcing a profession upon these
associations as well.
Many professional bodies are involved in the development and
monitoring of professional educational programs and the updating
of skills and thus perform professional certification to indicate that
a person process qualification. In the subject area

4. Some times membership of a professional
bodies is synonymous with certification
though not always membership of a
professional body, as a legal requirement,
can him some profession from the primary
formal basis for gaining entry and setting up
practice within the profession.
Many professional bodies also out as learned
society for the academic disciplines
underlining their profession

5. OBJECTIVES OF LIBRARY PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
 To promote exchange of ideas on education in the library
science.
To promote researchi9n education in library science.
To promote the publication of books and periodicals on
education in library science.
To hold conference, seminar and colloquia for the
development and propagation of ideas on education in
library science.
To give consultation service on education in library
science.
Training and Research betterment of library personnel.
Cooperation at the national and international level.
Promote of studies, norms, serves and guidelines.

6.  Providing a forum for professional and publication of
material.
 To encourage and promote the utilization of
knowledge through the collection, organization and
dissemination of in find.
To develop the usefulness and efficiency of special
libraries or information centers.
To stimulate research in the field of information
services.
To promote the high professional standards.
To facilitate communication among its members.

7. FUNCTIONS
 Meetings and seminars & conferences.
 Education and training.
 Professional issue.
 Projects.
 Relations with other associations.
 Publications, publishing works.
 Document production and translation services.
 Library legislation.
 Standards in libraries.
 Management of library services.
 Future’s perspectives.
 Progress in library science

8.  Professional education.
 Library bill or right.
 Use of modern technology.
 Publication of professional literature.
 Library service act.

9. ROLE OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS IN
LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT
 The main of library associations is to herald library
movement in the country to spread knowledge and
information, hence to fulfill this aim they interact with
government from time to time using every
conceivable opportunity for sound development of a
library system in the country by advising representing
and helping in drafting legislation, policy statement,
guidelines etc.
 Library associations make the people
conscious towards utility of the libraries, so
that the people may demand their right for
assessing to public library service and may
mobilize social pressure for healthy
development .of library services

10.  These associations strive for an evolution for an
integrated library and information system at national level
based on the national policy.
 These also bring the attention of authorities to defects,
distortions in the existing library infrastructure.
 These also provide a common forms for library
professional for exchange of their information, ideas,
experience and expertise etc.
 These work for betterment of salaries, grades services,
conditions of library staff, and also for improving their
status in the society.
 These also works towards sharing of resources and quoi
ding dilation of efforts among the libraries.

11.  These also contribute towards the
development of man power for library and
information work. For which their arrange
education and training programs for library
professional.
 These hold the image of library profession
high in the society and promote cooperation
among libraries and among the professional
of the libraries.