Library and information (LI) profession is a dynamic profession. Library associations provide a common platform to LI professionals to share their experiences, expertise and concerns. Library and information professionals relate to and learn from stakeholders' problems and solutions. This basically leads to the best practice of identifying common concerns at local, state, regional, national and international level resulting in professional unity. Many efforts have been made towards regional cooperation by proposing a federation of library associations of different national library associations of Asia. In 1951, at the invitation of the Indian Library Association sent by its President Dr. S.R. Ranganathan, AFLA was formed. Soon it reached its dead end. Then the Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians (CONSAL) was established during 1970. In 1972 the Commonwealth Library Association (COMLA) included a number of library associations of Asia as its members. The networking has also led the LIS professionals of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries including Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to the conception of REFSALA at Kathmandu meeting during 2005 fully funded by IFLA ALP. Leaders of all the national library associations of SAARC countries then committed to the formation of REFSALA, but still it is a pending draft. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]