Library, Archival, and Information Studies

• Archives Association of British Columbia - AABC

• ARMA Vancouver - Association of Records Managers and Administrators

• Association of Canadian Archivists - ACA

• British Columbia Library Association - BCLA

• Canadian Association for Information Science - CAIS

• Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians - CAPAL

• Canadian Association of Research Libraries - CARL

• Canadian Council of Archives - CCA

• Scholarly Societies in Library and Information Science

• American Library Association - ALA
• American Society for Information Science and Technology - ASIS&T

• Association of College & Research Libraries - ACRL

• Association of Records Managers and Administrators - ARMA

• Association of Research Libraries - ARL

• Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals - CILIP, UK

• Council on Library and Information Resources - CLIR

• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions - IFLA
  Ingrid Parent, UBC University Librarian, is past-president (2011-2013)

• International Council on Archives 

• Society of American Archivists 

• Society of Archivists - UK

• Special Libraries Association - SLA

Consortia are associations of independent libraries that work together under formal agreements for resource sharing. This can allow for collective purchasing, document delivery, cataloguing services, and many other similar activities.

Union catalogues list the holdings of all the libraries in a library system.  

BC and provincial

• Electronic Library Network - ELN - consortium of post-secondary libraries in British Columbia

• Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries - COPPUL - consortium of 20 university libraries in western Canada

• Outlook Online - union catalogue of the holdings of British Columbia's public, college, and institute libraries

Canada

• Voilà - Canadian union catalogue - Library and Archives Canada

Worldwide

• Center for Research Libraries - consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries

• OCLC - a nonprofit organization that provides computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing and preservation services. More than 72,000 libraries in 171 countries and territories around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials

• WorldCat (UBC Library subscription) and WorldCat.org (open) - union catalogue of over 10,000 libraries from around the world