[Vwoolf] Access to the MLA International Bibliography database may be endangered at your instituiton

[Neverow, Vara S.]

Greetings to all of you who teach….

If you have room in your syllabus for literature courses this fall (and in the spring as well!), it might prove helpful to embed the MLA research module into your classes.

As Paula Krebs mentions below (pasted into an email forwarded by Janine Utell), many of us are in serious risk of losing access to the online MLA International Bibliography through our university/college libraries if we are not diligent in generating activity. If students are required to peruse the database, then that activity validates the library’s investment.

It would be very scary to lose access to the MLA International Bibliography database.

Best,

Vara

Date:    Tue, 9 Aug 2022 12:29:26 -0400
From:    Janine Utell <jutell at MLA.ORG<mailto:jutell at MLA.ORG>>
Subject: Use It or Lose It

Dear colleagues,

If you want your students (and you) to continue to have access to the MLA
International Bibliography for research, it's a good idea to construct
assignments using it.

Librarians make decisions about whether or not to renew the MLA
International Bibliography based on the number of uses it gets on campus in
a given year. That means that your chances of being able to continue to use
this vital research tool will be greatly strengthened if you and your
faculty members use the bibliography in your teaching. That is really easy
to do if you embed this online module
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into
your syllabi and ask students to complete it. The self-paced course teaches
students how to do literature and language research using the bibliography.
Students get a digital badge when they complete the course, and you can
have them forward it to you as evidence of completion.

I know this sounds like a commercial, but I have had MLA members writing to
me in despair because their libraries have dropped the MLA International
Bibliography. So I reiterate: use it or lose it!

--Paula

Paula M. Krebs | Executive Director | Modern Language Association | 85
Broad Street, Suite 500 | New York, NY 10004 | 646-576-5100 | pkrebs at mla.org<mailto:pkrebs at mla.org>
| @PaulaKrebs



Vara Neverow
(pronouns: she/her/hers)
Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies
Editor, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu<mailto:neverowv1 at southernct.edu>

I acknowledge that Southern Connecticut State University was built on traditional territory of the indigenous peoples and nations of the Paugussett and Quinnipiac peoples.

Recent Publications:
Lead editor, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Kathryn Simpson, and Gill Lowe)
Editor, Volume One, 1975-1984, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Co-editor, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature (Edinburgh, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Paulina Pająk, Catherine Hollis, and Celiese Lypka)
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