دور الجمعية المصرية للمکتبات والمعلومات والجمعية الأمريکية للمکتبات في تطوير المهنة محليا : دراسة مقارنة

An association is considered one of the institutional components in any society, there are many types of associations but the most famous of these types are: Professional associations: namely those associations that arc interested in one of the professionals and therefore are included in the membership of each specialist belongs to this profession, it means working on the reunion of belonging to the profession and the exchange of views and ideas among them, and be their primary role is to speak on behalf of the profession and defend in all circles Non-professional associations : namely those associations that are interested in the general non-professional activities, and are therefore not looking for the benefit of a career in itself, but it is looking for community benefit, including. for example, political and religious associations This study will take care of the first type of these associations, which are considered the existence of professional associations, one of the main pillars in the formation of the infrastructure for any profession, working professional associations to raise the level of performance in services and raise the level of members of the profession technically, scientifically and financially, and the intervention of professional associations under the umbrella of scientific associations, where it aims to introduce the science in the field of the profession and the dissemination of scientific culture of the profession through conferences, lectures and seminars… And so forth, and that these associations are also working to promote scientific research and research topics and applied science policy and scientific organization of the profession by the Department of specialization This study would focus on explain the role of the Egyptian library association - the oldest Arab associations in the field - in the development of the profession within her community (Egypt), compared to the work done by the American library association - as one of the associations prestigious in the field - in the development of the profession within her community also (America)