This interest group focuses on all music of all the Americas.

The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Music Librarians Interest Group provides a forum for music librarians at member institutions to discuss cooperative resources and services offered by the overarching Big Ten Academic Alliance consortium.

The Black Music Collections Interest Group offers members a forum where they can exchange ideas and learn from like-minded colleagues and invited guests. Whether you work in an institution or collection with an emphasis on Black Music or you have a scholarly or personal interest in related topics, you are welcome at our meetings.

This Interest Group offers librarians and staff from conservatory libraries a forum to exchange ideas and learn from colleagues in similar positions. Libraries participate in an optional fiscal year survey including questions on usage, budget, and purchasing.

Interest group about all aspects of contemporary music in libraries, including acquisition, processing, cataloging, live performance, etc.

This interest group will provide an environment in which we can discuss issues facing the digital humanities and libraries, including those of sustainability and scalability, as well as questions about project management or metadata creation related to digital humanities research. It will enable librarians who share similar experiences or concerns to meet, share ideas, and discuss the role of music librarians or professionals working with music materials in digital humanities.

This interest group offers a place to discuss film music in libraries and current film music research.

This interest group generates presentations on jazz and popular music topics and discusses resources related to the subject. Some members come from institutions with an emphasis on jazz or pop music; others have a scholarly or personal interest.

The Music Industry and Arts Management Interest Group is a forum for any music librarian interested in any aspect of music business, arts management, publishing, music student career preparation, and other related areas.
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The Music Librarianship Educators Interest Group is open to anyone interested in the training and education of future music librarians. The Group meets at the annual meeting to discuss developments in the field. Also, the Group often submits proposals for presentations at national and chapter meetings on topics related to the education of music librarians.

The Music Library Student and Emerging Professionals Interest Group (MLStEP) seeks to connect students, prospective students, and librarians in the first five years of their careers with interest in music librarianship.

The Musical Theatre Interest Group provides a forum for the sharing of information and discussion of all matters related to musical theatre in its various manifestations around the world. These include not only American and Western European musical theatre traditions but also Chinese opera, Noh, musical theatre in India, and other musical theatre formats.

The Organ Music Interest Group is comprised of those who are interested in organs and organ music. Our primary activity occurs at each annual MLA meeting, where we share lists of new organ music and enjoy hearing presentations by community or interest group members. Members of the group often participate in the Organ Crawl, which is held prior to MLA annual meetings.

This group is open to any members of the MLA who are interested in topics affecting library support staff (or whatever term you prefer). This includes information about job listings, training opportunities, travel or other types of grants, and strategies for fully engaging parapros in participation within and beyond the association.

This interest group provides a forum for MLA members who themselves make music outside or within their institutions. All kinds of musical activity are included, covering all musical genres, performance frequencies, and settings (e.g., social group, house of worship, concert/recital hall, festival, club). Possible discussion topics include live performance in library public spaces, time management, relationship of library professional/musical skills, and live music performance at MLA meetings.

The Retirement Interest Group provides a forum for retirees and those contemplating retirement.

Our interest group provides a space for discussion and sharing news related to sheet music, including projects, selection, cataloging, publication and illustration, historical research, and other concerns.

The Alma Music Users Group is a forum for sharing information related to music retrieval and editing within Alma. Ex Libris Alma is a unified library services platform managing print, electronic and digital materials in a single cloud-based interface.

The Innovative Interfaces Interest Group welcomes all librarians who use any III product at their institution. Any and all III product users are welcome!

The SIRSIDynix Users Group welcomes anyone whose library uses SirsiDynix products, including Symphony, Unicorn, and Horizon. Please join us!

This group provides a forum for discussions, presentations and training opportunities for technical services concerns relating to music collections:
• Collection development
• Collection management
• Acquisitions
• Cataloging and metadata
• Discovery and access

The Video Game Music Interest Group promotes discussion on collecting, promoting, and cataloging video game music in all types of libraries. With the rise of interest in video games and their music, providing access to recordings, scores, and research will be useful for scholarship, performance, and personal enjoyment.

The World Music Interest Group engages in the discussion and performance of music outside of the Western tradition, and also that of ethnomusicology as a field of study, particularly in the context of library collections and research services. Ethnomusicology, to quote from the Society for Ethnomusicology home page, "... is the study of music in its cultural context. Ethnomusicologists approach music as a social process in order to understand not only *what* music is but *why* it is."