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The ELA is the Canadian national association interested in historical and current issues about libraries, archives, publishing houses, and related institutions and people. Membership is open to all interested parties, but is primarily drawn from the ranks of retired persons.

• association constitution and bylaws;
• Executive board and committees, meeting dates;
• long range plans;
• history of the Association formed 1986;
• Membership information, profile, and benefits;
• membership application form.

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• ELA's Annual General Meeting. ELA members meet annually at an AGM. The 2015 annual meeting will be held on Monday, Nov. 2nd, 9:30 a.m. at the Northern District Branch of the Toronto Public Library. Details to follow.
• ELA boards and committees–members plan and promote activities to further ELA goals; other members may attend these board meetings; ELA cooperates with other organizations on matters of mutual interest, e.g., with CLA it sponsors the W. Kaye Lamb award for excellence in library services to seniors;
• ELA publishes ELAN our newsletter, regularly and other items on occasion;
• Sponsor sessions with other groups and participates in advocacy on a national issues;
• ELA engages in a variety of historical initiatives related to archives, libraries, publishing houses, and other cultural organizations;
• ELA maintains a website, a electronic mailing list for its members and a Facebook page;
• ELA lists opportunities to volunteer to help libraries or other related organizations.
• ELA publishes Occasional Papers by members.

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ELAN is ELA's newsletter of articles, reminiscences, pictures, and news;

• ELAN published list of issues available for persual;
• thanks to the work of Agatha Barc, a master index to ELAN's issues are available to help locate people and subjects. The master index covers the years 1987 to 2016.
• ELAN volunteers: opportunities to contribute book reviews, etc.to ELAN.

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• ELA is producing a database of Biographies of Librarians and Information Professionals in Canada, a significant part of whose lives was spent in libraries, archives, publishing and related information fields;
• historical articles on Canadian library and information studies education (ELAN special 2004 issue on library education);
• chronologies related to Canadian library and information studies education;
• a wide ranging collection of articles in ELAN related to historical topics ;
• The Morton Years;
• ELA archives.