About Us
Our Mission
Provide for the exchange of ideas and experiences among members and to foster library services to all residents of Westchester County.
Our History
In the spring of 1937, a group of librarians met informally to consider some of the problems common to small libraries in Westchester County. Led by Ann J. Rymer of the Scarsdale Public Library, they discussed questions of practice and the possibility of broadening library services through the creation of a union catalog thus allowing for interlibrary loan. Since then, the WLA has flourished into an organization based on these core principals bringing librarians together from all fields (public, school, special, academic) to discuss issues, learn from one another and publicize library events.