A place to share ideas about advocating for music library resources, spaces, users, and staff. Administered by the Music Library Advocacy Committee of the Music Library Association (MLA).
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Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum
Music Library Advocacy on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoDear All,
I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.
Best wishes,
Vivien Jiaqian Zhu
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Kathleen DeLaurenti deposited Copyrights Management Template in the group
Music Library Advocacy on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months agoThis copyrights management plan allows researchers to track licenses, copyright exceptions, and copyright ownership for research-creation projects. Developed to assist musician-scholars who are managing numerous copyrights in their research-creation, this inventory can be adapted to any research project that requires documenting decision making…[Read more]
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Kathleen DeLaurenti deposited Copyright Inventory in the group
Music Library Advocacy on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months agoThis spreadsheet provides a template for managing copyrights for research-creation projects. Originally developed for musician-scholars who need to manage multiple copyrights for their projects, it can also be used for managing image or archival permissions for any humanities research project.
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Kathleen DeLaurenti deposited Search Strategy Planner in the group
Music Library Advocacy on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months agoThis search strategy template is designed to help researchers early in their process start to plan a search strategy. The template provides an easy way to label primary, secondary, and tertiary sources; name the kinds of information sources you’re looking for; and identify search tools. This is designed to streamline the search process so that…[Read more]
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Linda Fairtile wrote a new post Library Futures in the group
Music Library Advocacy: on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoOne of my responsibilities as Chair of the Music Library Advocacy Committee is to serve as MLA’s representative to the Library Futures Institute. This new non-profit, founded in January 2021, is a coalition of […]
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Nurhak Tuncer replied to the topic MLA Communication in the discussion
Music Library Advocacy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoI really like this new communication platform as I was looking forward to it as most of the people in MLA. Excited for it. Yay!
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Linda Fairtile edited the post COVID-19 Advocacy Resources in the group
Music Library Advocacy: on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoLook under “Advocacy Links” in the menu at the top of this screen to find links to resources specifically addressing challenges faced by libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Matthew Vest uploaded the file: UCLA Music Library comparative infographics to
Music Library Advocacy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoSome signs I made for a tour that include qualitative information and some comparative infographics to communicate some quantitative information. It is a few years old now.
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Steve Landstreet uploaded the file: Outreach Initiatives by Music Librarians in Public Libraries to
Music Library Advocacy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoA collection of brief descriptions of varied outreach initiatives by music librarians in public libraries across the country. You can contact the librarians directly for further information on what they’ve done.
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Randye Jones deposited Appendix 8 – Art Songs by African American Composers in Musical Anthologies in the group
Music Library Advocacy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoAvailability of vocal music scores compilations containing art songs by African American composers. Supplemental content accompanying the book, So You Want to Sing Spirituals.
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Brian Cockburn uploaded the file: Reference Books that Google Can't Replace to
Music Library Advocacy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoFor JMU “Drop-in Session” taught by student deskworkers to undergrad students. Made to fit on a single 8.5 x 11 sheet pamphlet fold
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Linda Fairtile replied to the topic MLA Communication in the discussion
Music Library Advocacy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoI can only speak to the issue of communicating about advocacy. The Music Library Advocacy Task Force’s 2017 survey indicated that a listserv was not the most desirable venue for discussions of advocacy-related topics. Perhaps it’s due to listserv fatigue, or just a preference for other methods of communication. Face-to-face discussion was th…[Read more]
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Stephen Thomson Moore started the topic MLA Communication in the discussion
Music Library Advocacy on Humanities Commons 6 years agoIt is my impression that the amount of communication/postings etc. taking place on MLA-L is considerably less than ten, twenty or twenty-five years ago. Is this because there are fewer music librarians? or is the chatter taking place in other fora?
-Tom Moore, FIU
