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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Greetings to all of you who teach….</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">It would be very scary to lose access to the MLA International Bibliography database.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Vara<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 12:29:26 -0400<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">From: Janine Utell <<a href="mailto:jutell@MLA.ORG" title="mailto:jutell@MLA.ORG">jutell@MLA.ORG</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Subject: Use It or Lose It<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">If you want your students (and you) to continue to have access to the MLA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">International Bibliography for research, it's a good idea to construct<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">assignments using it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Librarians make decisions about whether or not to renew the MLA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">International Bibliography based on the number of uses it gets on campus in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">a given year. That means that your chances of being able to continue to use<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">this vital research tool will be greatly strengthened if you and your<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">faculty members use the bibliography in your teaching. That is really easy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">to do if you embed this online module<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https*3A*2F*2Fwww.mla.org*2FPublications*2FMLA-International-Bibliography*2FFree-Online-Course&data=05*7C01*7Cneverowv1*40southernct.edu*7C7e838ccc6d464489bd3408da7adbd6a1*7C58736863d60e40ce95c60723c7eaaf67*7C0*7C0*7C637957381864469243*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0*3D*7C3000*7C*7C*7C&sdata=chYNtjNRS3O*2B9SWqiW4KTSUJUHpgihtj*2F5pN579TcdA*3D&reserved=0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUl!!KGKeukY!2P4njzhP3XkY7Lq6ZxU2jB_toEMGHODu77FOXsq9v9gPOi8X_8XPyObFG7Pl6LEDnzIcXNzx0lPZf-Z9gjq-ZPXiIN7o$" title="Original URL:
https://www.mla.org/Publications/MLA-International-Bibliography/Free-Online-Course
Click to follow link.">https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mla.org%2FPublications%2FMLA-International-Bibliography%2FFree-Online-Course&data=05%7C01%7Csmytha2%40SOUTHERNCT.EDU%7Ca66b5782d04049402af608da7a84dcfa%7C58736863d60e40ce95c60723c7eaaf67%7C0%7C0%7C637957008436883652%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uwhzjiAwcv8krw0fvgEXpGJDFzM4%2Fngl%2FrvvuwryCic%3D&reserved=0</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">into<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">your syllabi and ask students to complete it. The self-paced course teaches<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">students how to do literature and language research using the bibliography.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Students get a digital badge when they complete the course, and you can<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">have them forward it to you as evidence of completion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I know this sounds like a commercial, but I have had MLA members writing to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">me in despair because their libraries have dropped the MLA International<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Bibliography. So I reiterate: use it or lose it!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">--Paula<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Paula M. Krebs | Executive Director | Modern Language Association | 85<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Broad Street, Suite 500 | New York, NY 10004 | 646-576-5100 |<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:pkrebs@mla.org" title="mailto:pkrebs@mla.org">pkrebs@mla.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">| @PaulaKrebs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Vara Neverow</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">(pronouns: she/her/hers)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Editor, <i>Virginia Woolf Miscellany</i><br>
Southern Connecticut State University<br>
New Haven, CT 06515<br>
203-392-6717<br>
<a href="mailto:neverowv1@southernct.edu" title="mailto:neverowv1@southernct.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">neverowv1@southernct.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">I acknowledge that Southern Connecticut </span></i><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">State University
was built on traditional territory of the indigenous peoples and nations of the Paugussett and Quinnipiac peoples. </span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Recent Publications:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Lead editor, <i>Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources </i>(Bloomsbury, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Kathryn Simpson, and Gill Lowe)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Editor, Volume One, 1975-1984, <i>Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources</i> (Bloomsbury, 2020)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Co-editor, <i>The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature</i> (Edinburgh, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino,
Paulina Paj</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#201F1E">ą</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">k, Catherine Hollis, and Celiese Lypka)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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