Music Library Advocacy Committee Annual Report 2019
submitted by Linda Fairtile
Current Roster
- Stephanie Bonjack (2023)
- Linda Fairtile, chair (2023)
- Michelle Hahn, ex officio as Newsletter Editor
- Amy Hunsaker (2022)
- Steve Landstreet (2021)
- Casey Mullin (2022)
- Lisa Shiota, ex officio as Publicity & Outreach Officer
- Laura Thompson (2021)
List of Previous Goals and Progress Made
As a newly formed committee, we don’t have previous goals. However, at our first face-to-face meeting in
February 2019 we established three themes to guide our work for the next several
months:
1. Advocacy through discovery: Help new users discover what a music library can
offer them, and help returning users discover library resources
- Shared an infographic, created by a committee member, that promotes library resources, and which can be adapted to local situations.
2. Sharing of Advocacy Resources:
- Committee members created an
18-slide PowerPoint presentation, titled “Music Librarianship and MLA,” that local chapters
can adapt to introduce MLA and the music library profession to their state library associations. - Laid the groundwork for an advocacy website that facilitates discussion and enables creation and sharing of relevant resources. After consulting with Katie Buehner and Kathleen DeLaurenti we decided to create a Music Library Advocacy group on Humanities Commons.
3. Collaboration:
- Identified selected professional organizations to serve as models and potential partners in our advocacy efforts.
List of Future Goals
- Build and promote the Music Library Advocacy group site on Humanities Commons: this goal helps advance the Strategic Plan’s membership goal areas, increasing outreach to members from underrepresented groups and to organizations that are underrepresented.
- Collect, share, and promote the creation of advocacy resources, including those targeting issues of concern to underrepresented groups and organizations. Public libraries will be a special focus this year.
- Facilitate discussion of advocacy issues
- Identify additional venues to promote the Music Library Advocacy group site in order to reach underrepresented groups and organizations.
- Monitor the advocacy activities of selected professional organizations, identifying areas of potential collaboration: this goal helps to advance the Strategic Plan’s organizational excellence goal by seeking to pursue joint ventures with other organizations.
- assign individual committee members to report on the advocacy activities of one or more selected organizations, focusing on areas for potential collaboration.