Sponsors

Membership of the Association exists in the following categories:

A. INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP

Personal membership is open to all individuals engaged or interested in library and information service and /or library and information science who subscribe to the Constitution of the Association.
Honorary membership is granted to a person nominated by the Representative Council if in the opinion of the Representative Council he/she deserves recognition for worthy and significant contributions that such an individual has made in furthering the aims of the Association.
Student Membership is accorded to students in tertiary institutions who are not gainfully employed and who are pursuing any academic or professional programme that may eventually qualify such a student as librarian or information worker.
Continuing Membership is automatically granted to all those persons who have had more than twenty years of consecutive membership in the Association who are members at the time of retirement from library and information services or library and information science and who have applied for such membership.

B. INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Institutional membership is open to organisations and bodies which maintain or are interested in libraries and information services, provided that voluntary associations, organisations or bodies comprised of LIS workers and which have similar aims and objectives shall not be included as institutional members.

C. AFFILIATE MEMBERSHIP

Affiliate membership, as provided for in Article VI paragraph 6.5 of the Constitution, is open to associations concerned with fields related to librarianship and information service such as the book trade, reading and literacy, provided that the membership of such an association does not primarily consist of library and information workers and that its affiliation is approved by the AGM on the recommendation of the Representative Council.