Individual members of the Association now numbering about 5,000 drawn from various types of libraries, would usually belong, in the first instance, to one of the 37 States/FCT chapters or/and one or more of the thirteen special interest groups. The thirteen special interest groups currently in existence are:
- Academic and Research Libraries (ARL)
- Association of Government Libraries (AGOL)
- Association of News Media Librarians of Nigeria (ANLON)
- Association of Women Librarians in Nigeria (AWLIN)
- Cataloguing, Classification and Indexing (CAT & CLASS)
- Nigerian Association of Law Libraries (NALL)
- National Association of
- Library & Information Science Educators (NALISE)
- Public Libraries Section(PLS)
- Information Technology Section (ITS)
- Nigerian School Library Association (NSLA)
- Association of Libraries for Visually Handicapped (ALVH)
- Preservation and
- Conservation Section (PCS)
- Medical Libraries Section (MDLS)