AA Information Library
Use these organized guides to understand A.A., its program, literature, language, participation, and boundaries. Meeting search tools remain in AA Meetings, history remains in AA History, and service administration remains in AA Groups and Administration.
Enter and Orient
Getting Started with AA
Clear starting points for newcomers and anyone trying to understand how meetings, sponsorship, groups, and participation work.
Types of Meetings
Understand the published attendance, access, format, audience, accessibility, environment, language, service, administration, and status distinctions used for AA meetings.
Understand the Program
Encounter the Texts
AA Readings, Prayers and Statements
Common material heard in meetings, with careful distinctions between official A.A. sources, group custom, and material used in A.A. but created elsewhere.
AA Books and Literature
A guide to the Big Book, its chapters, major A.A. books, and the meaning of Conference-approved literature.
Understand Language and Relationships
Understand Boundaries
