Public Services: Reference and Access Services Subcommittee Annual Report 2019

submitted by Sara Manus

Current Roster

  • Kate Lambaria, chair (2023)
  • Joe Clark (2023)
  • Taylor J. Greene (2022)
  • Donna Maher (2023)
  • Krstina L. Shanton (2022)
  • Peter Shirts (2020)
  • Matthew Vest (2021)

List of Previous Goals and Progress Made

  1. Continue to offer responses to queries from the “Ask MLA” feature on the MLA website.
    • Ongoing
  2. Use information gathered from the “Public Services Town Hall” at MLA 2018 to determine new directions and projects for the subcommittee.
    • Completed
  3. Use information gathered from the RASS-sponsored session “Out of Reach: ADA in the Music Library” at MLA 2019 to discuss potential directions and projects for the subcommittee.
    • Completed

List of Future Goals

  1. Continue to offer responses to queries from the “Ask MLA” feature on the MLA website. Goal Area: Organizational Excellence; Objective 2, “Improve access to information by and about the Association to meet the needs of members and other interested parties.”
    • Goal Area: Organizational Excellence; Objective 2, “Improve access to information by and about the Association to meet the needs of members and other interested parties.”
  2. Complete work on the music reference services survey and disseminate findings at the MLA 2020 meeting and through other venues.
    • Goal Area: Value of the Profession; Objective 3: “Use new technologies to build greater public awareness, understanding and support for the Association, music libraries and music librarianship.”
  3. Participate in the interactive session “Toward Mutual Enlightenment: An Information-Sharing Forum for Catalogers and Public Services Librarians” at the MLA 2020 meeting to identify new directions and projects for the subcommittee. This session is co-sponsored by the Cataloging & Metadata Committee, Instruction Subcommittee, and Reference & Access Services Subcommittee.
    • Goal Area: Organizational Excellence, Objective 2: “Improve access to information by and about the Association to meet the needs of members and other interested parties.”