Announcing the Music Library Association Clearinghouse (MLAC)
 
GUIDELINES
 
Purpose:
 
The MLAC will distribute information related to music librarianship.
The principal means of distribution will be in electronic form via
the MLA-L filelist stored at Indiana University, Bloomington at the
LISTSERV server: listserv@listserv.indiana.edu. Print distribution
(charged at a cost to recover costs of printing and postage)
will also be available.
The MLAC is also accessible via the World Wide Web at:
http://www.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/mla/index.htm
 
Scope:
 
Any information of relevance to music librarianship will be considered
for distribution.  Such information may include, but is not limited to:
 
a. reports, studies, bibliographies, analyses, etc. by any MLA
committee, subcommittee, roundtable, task force, etc.
 
b. reports, studies, bibliographies, analyses, etc. of any problems
or topics related to music librarianship.
 
Disclaimer:
 
Unless OTHERWISE stated, NO material distributed by the MLAC is
 
a. endorsed by the Music Library Association
 
b. subject to MLA editorial scrutiny
 
c. subject to peer review
 
 
A disclaimer will be included in each document distributed,
except for those which have been previously published, in which
case the source of the document will be cited.
 
Procedures for submitting documents to MLAC:
 
a. Preferred procedure. Send the document in ASCII (DOS, TEXT)
format to the MLAC coordinator as as an e-mail message.
 
b. Secondary procedure. Send the document in ACSII (DOS, TEXT)
format to the MLAC coordinator on diskette.
 
c. Tertiary procedure. Send the document in printed form to the
MLAC coordinator.  Such documents will only be available for
redistribution in photocopy form, and not via electronic distribution.
 
Procedures for retrieving documents:
 
a. All electronically stored documents can be retrieved from the
MLA-L FILELIST utilising the regular LISTSERV commands.
Send the command INDEX MLA-L to listserv@listserv.indiana.edu in order
to obtain a copy of the current filelist.
 
b. Printed copies of documents can be obtained at costs covering at
least printing and mailing (requests, with checks made out to MLA, should
be submitted to the MLAC coordinator).  These costs will be noted
in announcements, and will be based on average printing and postage costs
for documents within certain page parameters.
 
Listing of documents:
 
Documents available via the MLAC will be recorded in the MLA-L
FILELIST.  This list will, of course, be available via regular
LISTSERV commands.  Versions of the list will also periodically
be published in the MLA Newsletter as needed.
 
Discussion:
 
MLAC is intended to serve, minimally, as means for distributing
information of relevance to music librarianship that is not
otherwise being distributed currently.  This can include
reports of MLA committee and roundtable activity as well as
informal studies conducted by music librarians that will not
otherwise be polished for publication--studies could also include
papers prepared by librarianship students.  Basically, anything
of relevance to music librarianship will be considered with the
disclaimer noted above.
 
Coordinator:  Ralph Papakhian, Indiana University Music Library,
Bloomington, IN 47405. 812-855-2970.  papakhi@indiana.edu