The Ukrainian Library Association -- a nongovernmental professional association with individual membership -- was founded in 1995 and registered at the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. It is a national association, which represents about 50,000 library workers across the country and more than 40,000 libraries. ULA members work in public, college, university, school and special libraries. Now it has 14 regional chapters and 8 sections according to branches of library and information science and librarianship.

The Association - supporting the process of democratization in Ukraine - strives to be the chief advocate for the people of Ukraine to achieve and maintain high-quality library and information services (by protecting the right to read, educating librarians, improving library services, and making information available to everyone). It contributes towards guaranteeing free access to information and intellectual freedom, and promotes public awareness of this field. The Ukrainian Library Association works on strengthening and developing the library profession, and library and information science education.

The Ukrainian Library Association has been collaborating on different projects with a number of national and international organizations, including the Renaissance Foundation (Kyiv), the Open Society Institute (in Budapest), the British Council in Kyiv, the Goethe Institute in Kyiv, German Library Institute in Berlin, American Library Association, U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, and IREX (International Research & Exchanges Board). The Association has positive experience of collaboration with the European Commission as well.

To contact:

Oksana Brui, President

Yaroslava Soshynska, Executive Director

tel.: +380 44 383-14-32

e-mail: info@ula.org.ua

www.ula.org.ua