• History of the South Central Chapter

    Edited by Christine WillisIn celebration of MLA’s 125th anniversary, we will be sharing caucus and chapter histories throughout the year. Previously published histories are available…

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  • MLA ’24 Travel Grants

    MLA is pleased to announce the recipients of 2024 Annual Conference Travel Grants. Ysabel Bertolucci MLA Annual Conference Grant  Ysabel Bertolucci MLA Annual Conference Grant provides…

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  • Women Who Inspire Us

    “Celebrating Women Who Tell Stories” is the 2023 theme for National Women’s History Month. Women have played a prominent role throughout MLA’s history, furthering our…

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  • EFTS Unbilled Transactions Announcement

    This is an update regarding the processing of unbilled transactions for EFTS lending libraries. Unbilled transactions are transactions imported from DOCLINE that a lending library…

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  • EFTS Custom Pricing Groups Now Launched

    This is an announcement regarding the launch of EFTS Custom Pricing Groups for lending libraries. A primary objective of the EFTS Powered by MLA platform…

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  • EFTS Successes and Growing Pains

    One short year ago, MLA agreed to develop a new Electronic Fund Transfer System (EFTS) platform to ensure continuity of service for the many libraries…

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  • Significant Changes to EFTS and DOCLINE after June 30, 2020

    The University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) is transferring the operations of the Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS) to MLA in a timeline agreed to…

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  • EFTS Update: February 27, 2020

    Your MLA Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS) team has been hard at work to implement the new EFTS. Latest news 610 libraries have completed their EFTS…

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  • EFTS User Agreements Now Available

    On Friday January 17, 812 libraries received the MLA Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS) user agreement for their review. Here are some fun facts: 300…

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  • 750+ Libraries Support the New EFTS

    Great news, and thank you! 750+ libraries have expressed their interest to join the new EFTS by requesting a user agreement from MLA. MLA will…

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  • EFTS Is Here to Stay

    Poem posted to MEDLIB-L on November 22, 2019, by Fred King, AHIP Subject: Re: We need 75% of current EFTS users to keep the system…

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  • Kickstart the New EFTS Platform: Update

    As you may have learned (and apologies if you have already received a similar message), MLA has developed the specifications of a new Electronic Funds…

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  • Kickstart the New EFTS Platform

    MLA has developed the specifications of a new Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS) platform. MLA will proceed with actual development and implementation if a minimum…

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  • Update on EFTS Continuation

    Submitted by Kevin Baliozian, MLA Executive Director, and Janice Swiatek, Director, Lyman Maynard Stowe Library, University of Connecticut (UConn) Health Center–Farmington On July 18, 2019,…

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  • Update on EFTS Continuation

    On May 22, 2019, Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS) users received a communication from Janice Swiatek, director of the Lyman Maynard Stowe Library at the…

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