MLA Field Bibliographers
The MLA International Bibliography is compiled by MLA staff
members with the assistance of volunteer specialists called field
bibliographers. Field bibliographers add new citations to the bibliography by
recording publishing information and defining their subject, content, and form.
Benefits
1. Service to the profession—students, scholars, teachers,
and researchers.
Indexing for the MLA International Bibliography allows one
to contribute to literary scholarship by ensuring that important texts are
accessible to present and future scholars.
2. Deepened knowledge of a specialty.
Field bibliographers have the opportunity to read
publications in their fields regularly, allowing them to keep aware of current
interests, trends, and scholarship.
3. Exposure to new areas of inquiry.
Indexing allows bibliographers to broaden the scope of their
knowledge. It educates them on new topics, which later become part of their
teaching and their curriculum decisions.
4. Sharpening of research skills through notation and
classification.
Field bibliographers gain invaluable insights into using
libraries, the MLA International Bibliography, and other scholarly resources,
insights that would be difficult to achieve any other way.
5. Institutional recognition.
Field bibliographers are credited on the MLA Web site. Upon
request, the MLA can also provide a letter to a bibliographer’s dean,
department head, or supervisor that emphasizes the value of the work being
performed and the scholarly skills required by the service.
Please note that field bibliographer work is unpaid.
Bibliographers may, however, apply for an MLA Bibliography fellowship.
Responsibilities
Field bibliographers may cover journals, books series, or
stand-alone essay collections and monographs. Bibliographers are responsible
for at least five periodicals (or enough for at least a hundred citations) per
year and should have regular access to the material they cover.
Indexing of the MLA International Bibliography requires the
bibliographer to assign descriptive terms in a consistent structure and to
adhere to a standard citation format. Bibliographers submit their work online
through the MLAIB production platform. All submitted material is edited and
entered into the bibliography’s database.
Becoming a Field Bibliographer
Faculty members, independent scholars, librarians, and
graduate students are welcome to contribute to the MLA International Bibliography.
Through their contributions to the bibliography, they provide an important
service both to individual scholars and to the international scholarly
community. If you are interested in becoming a bibliographer, please send a
letter indicating the area in which you would like to work along with your
résumé to the address below.
Chriselle Tidrick
MLA International Bibliography
85 Broad Street, suite 500
New York, NY 10004-2434
ctidrick@mla.org
Field bibliographers are appointed by the executive director
of the MLA.
Training
Field bibliographer training begins with the viewing of a
series of recorded webinars on the use of the MLAIB production platform. Once
this process has been completed, field bibliographers are trained individually
by the MLA staff. These individual sessions take place through teleconferencing
sessions during which each bibliographer becomes familiar with MLA indexing
practices.
Field bibliographers are also encouraged to meet with a
member of the MLA staff at the MLA Annual Convention; at one of the American
Library Association semiannual conventions; or, if the bibliographer is located
in the tristate area, at the MLA headquarters office in New York City. If
bibliographers are not able to meet an MLA staff member in person, they can
correspond with the field bibliographer training manager by e-mail.
Contributors to the Bibliography for 2019
DISTINGUISHED BIBLIOGRAPHERS
Distinguished bibliographers are those who have contributed
continuously for more than twenty years.
Neal Baker
Russell Burrows
Steven J. Daniell
Ann Willardson Engar
Joe K. Fugate
Mark Groundland
Lila M. Harper
John M. Jeep
Thomas W. Juntune
James R. Kelly
Michael Markiw
Moira Marsh (coordinator, Indiana University, MLA Folklore
Bibliography Project)
Diana T. Mériz
Jana Papcunová
Rosa E. Penna
Avis Kuwahara Payne
Paul Videsott
SENIOR BIBLIOGRAPHERS
Senior bibliographers are those who have contributed
continuously for more than ten years.
Rebecca Day Babcock
Laura Fuderer
Zoé Jiménez-Corretjer
January Y. Lim
Craig A. Meyer
Sheila A. Monnet
Susan Oliver
Anka Sollner Perdih
Pearlie Mae Peters
Brian W. Vetruba
Maria C. Willstedt
FIELD BIBLIOGRAPHERS
Rasoul Aliakbari
Allison E. Bernard
Linde M. Brocato
Antonio Cardentey Levin
Elizabeth L. Carron
Kerstin Damiana Carson
Aedín N. Clements
Lauren G. Coker
Camille Cooper
Ignacio Corona
Natalia Dankova
Brian C. Flota
David E. Garcia
Matthew W. Goddard
Liorah A. Golomb
Chanita R. Goodblatt
Matthew T. Harrick
Ariane Hartsell-Gundy
Leonie Hintze
William Daniel Holcombe
Bassey E. Irele
Melissa E. Johnson
S. C. Kaplan
W. Scott Lancaster
Léandre Larouche
Tracy J. Lassiter
Leslie Madden
Carmela Victoria Mattza
Esther K. Mbithi
Jennifer Z. McClure
Jason T. McEntee
Britt McGowan
Jerimiah R. Mercurio
R. Antonio Munoz Gomez
Kristiina Näyhö
Michelle J. Oh
Paula N. Patch
Anne Ray
John C. Rendeiro
Victoria I. Rizo Lenshyn
Téa Rokolj
Jessica D. Ryan
Bruce T. Sajdak
Christoph Schmitz
Michelle M. Sharp
Sarah E. Sherren
Pamela G. Slate-Liggett
Sarah J. Sprouse
Jen S. Stevens
Brian J. Stone
Amanda L. Watson
Michael F. Winter
Margaret E. Wright-Cleveland
Demetrio S. Yocum
Afrin Zeenat
ASSISTANT BIBLIOGRAPHERS
Iris Fry
Roz Rini Larson
Patawee Promsen
Caroline Tatem
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