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
- Continue to offer responses to queries from the “Ask MLA” feature on the MLA website.
- Ongoing
- Use information gathered from the “Public Services Town Hall” at MLA 2018 to determine new directions and projects for the subcommittee.
- Completed
- 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
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.”