Welcome message - please read! https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1002959 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:54:35 GMT Thu, 4 Sep 2014 00:45:27 GMT Copyright © 2014 Music Library Association Welcome message - please read! https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1002959 https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/forums/posts.aspx?topic=1002959 Dear colleagues – In accord with Objective Two in the Advocacy area of our strategic plan, the Board of MLA plans to commission a white paper that will advocate the importance of music library collections and services. We hope that the paper will be useful to librarians involved in debates about the value of such collections and services, and help to preserve them in the face of budgetary and other threats.

In order to gather ideas from the MLA membership, we have created this forum where members can contribute ideas and comment on others’ suggestions. We ask that any MLA member interested in discussion of these issues, please post to the forum, and comment on others' suggestions.

Please understand that we are currently in the information-gathering stage. The forum is one vehicle for that. We have also asked committee chairs to submit ideas along with their Board reports. Ideas from the forum will be taken into consideration by the authors of the white paper, yet to be identified. We would like to conclude discussion on the forum by Monday, September 15. 

Documentation on using the forum is available at http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.musiclibraryassoc.org/resource/collection/D39D6C3F-4625-4490-AC08-7F6BC548F9AB/Forum_documentation.pdf.

Thank you, and we look forward to your contributions.

The MLA Board

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