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MLA Bibliography Now Available from BCR

By Ellen Fox
All BCR member libraries are invited to participate in a free trial of the MLA Bibliography through CSA. The trial runs through March 31. BCR will then be providing discounted access to MLA through CSA. The discount will depend on how many libraries BCR aggregates. To sign up for the trial, please see www.bcr.org/trials/mlatrial.html.

The MLA International Bibliography provides a classified listing and subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literature, folklore and linguistics compiled by the staff of the MLA Office of Bibliographic Information Services with the cooperation of more than 100 contributing bibliographers in the United States and abroad. The MLA International Bibliography annually indexes more than 66,000 books and articles.

Coverage includes literature from all over the world — Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North and South America. Folklore is represented by folk literature, music, art, rituals and belief systems. Linguistics and language materials range from history and theory of linguistics, comparative linguistics, semantics, stylistics and syntax to translation. Other topics include literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater) and history of printing and publishing.

Each year in 2002 and 2003, more than 66,000 citations were added to the database, which now contains more than 1.6 million records. The file covers indexing back to 1963, and the printed index began in 1921. In April 2003, citations of JSTOR's language and literature collection were added. The bibliography covers material in journals dating as far back as the 1880s.

For the ceiling price for BCR members, please see www.bcr.org/reference/csa/mlaorder.html.

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