Reference and User Services Association

****Mission**** The Reference and User Services Association is a network to educate, empower, and inspire its members to advance the evolution of the profession and better serve users in a continuously changing information society. ****About**** The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) is a division of the American Library Association. RUSA serves all types of libraries in reference, user services, adult readers advisory and collection development as well as resource sharing, genealogy and archives, business reference and reference technology. RUSA has six specialty sections that are free to RUSA members: [BRASS](http://www.ala.org/rusa/sections/brass) (Business Reference and Services Section), [CODES](http://www.ala.org/rusa/sections/codes) (Collection Development and Evaluation Section) [HS](http://www.ala.org/rusa/sections/history) (History Section), [ETS](http://www.ala.org/rusa/sections/ets) (Emerging Technologies Section), [RSS](http://www.ala.org/rusa/sections/rss) (Reference Services Section) and [STARS](http://www.ala.org/rusa/sections/stars) (Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section).