Contribute to MLAConnect
MLAConnect welcomes submissions from all MLA members, committees, sections, and chapters. If it’s important to MLA members, we want to know about it!
- Submissions for all MLAConnect material, including events, should be sent to the editor, unless it concerns the subject areas of the column editors listed on the Full Editorial Team.
- Use the MLA Style Manual as you draft your article to answer questions about spelling, style, and references.
- Submit your article via email. Please include “MLAConnect copy” in the subject line.
- All articles submitted should contain timely information. Unit meeting recaps, survey results, awards, and so on, should be submitted as soon as possible after they have occurred.
- All articles are subject to editing and abridgment.
- Photographs and illustrations are encouraged. Images copied from the web often have copyright questions; please submit original images.
- Letters to the editor are encouraged and will be published as space permits. Though letters may take issue with anything published in MLAConnect, all letters must be respectful in tone and avoid confrontational or inflammatory language.
- Products, services, and events published in the MLAConnect do not constitute MLA’s endorsement or approval, and authors must not communicate an endorsement or approval.
- Submission deadlines are 6 weeks prior to publication.
- Submission does not guarantee publication.
The MLA News transitioned to an all-digital format in January 2017. MLAConnect is electronic only and has been expanded to include a wider range of content, with an improved online reader interface.
This change will integrate all MLA-produced articles and information into a single online space where the reader is at the center of the experience and where it is easy to find content that is of interest to the individual. The expanded MLAConnect will integrate current MLAConnect content with content from MLA headquarter blogs and from caucuses; for example, caucus newsletters or posts. It will also integrate links to the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) articles that will be published on the JMLA online platform. The current MLAConnect editorial structure will remain (editor-in-chief plus column editors), with an expanded list of key contributors that could include individuals from caucuses and staff.
The MLA News newsletter was in print since November 1961. The last print edition was the November/December 2016 issue. The all-digital edition remains a free benefit of membership in MLA.