The IASLIC, acronym for the Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres, was established on 3 September 1955 as a non-profit making national, professional body to:

● Promote the quality of Library and Information Services
● coordinate the activities, and
● foster mutual cooperation and assistance among the special libraries, scientific, technological and research institutions, learned societies, commercial organizations, industrial research establishments as well as centres of studies in social sciences and humanities
● Improve the technical efficiency of the professionals
● Act as a centre of research and studies in special librarianship and documentation techniques
● Act as a centre of information in scientific, technical and other related fields of LIS    in pursuance of the aforesaid objects...