Representatives & Liaisons

Representatives to Other Organizations

American Library Association
Representative: Stephanie Bonjack (appointed 2009)
Purpose: Because the Music Library Association is an American Library Association affiliate, the MLA President receives and transmits to this representative gratis registration privileges. The MLA representative to ALA attends the ALA annual summer and mid-winter meetings as an observer, and reports actions of significance to the MLA to the President in a timely fashion as appropriate. The representative may be reimbursed for the mid-winter registration fee if not otherwise funded.

Grove Music Online
Representative: Daniel Zager (appointed 2009)

Historical Recording Coalition for Access and Preservation [HRCAP]
Representative:
Gordon Theil (appointed 2009)

National Information Standards Organization (Z39)
Representative: Mark McKnight (appointed 2003)
Alternate: David Sommerfield (appointed 2003)
Purpose: As a voting member of this committee, the MLA representative presents an informed statement of our views on various standards. He/she consults with or refers decisions to other committees within the Association when necessary.

External Liaisons

Music OCLC Users Group
Representative: Alan Ringwood (MOUG Secretary/Newsletter Editor and MLA contact)

Organizational Liaisons

Purpose:
To foster informal affiliations with professional musical, scholarly, and library organizations whose interests and activities correlate with those of MLA; to coordinate and train members of MLA who are active in other organizations to effectively bring information about MLA to other groups and to communicate news of those groups’ activities to the membership of MLA; and to develop and maintain structures for communication and reporting between liaison organizations and MLA. The committee also works with the Board and the President to coordinate communication between MLA’s official representatives to ALA and NISO and the MLA membership.

Coordinator:
Renée McBride, MLA Publicity and Outreach Officer

Liaisons:

American Library Association: Dance Librarians Discussion Group Kathleen Haefliger
American Musicological Society John Shepard
Art Libraries Society of North America Alyssa Resnick
Association for Recorded Sound Collections Jim Farrington
Association of Music Personnel on Public Radio Thomas Pease
Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres Lisa Philpott
Chamber Music America George Boziwick
International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres David Gilbert
ISMIR: The International Society for Music Information Retrieval Elizabeth Davis
Online Audiovisual Catalogers Mary Huismann
Percussive Arts Society Timothy Sestrick
Public Library Association John Brower
Society for American Music Jonathan Hiam
Society for Ethnomusicology Alec McLane
Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Darwin Scott