Creating an Online 'MA' Service

摘要

Ever notice how readers' advisory (RA) gets all the love? Training classes abound, resources like EBSCO's NoveL-ist and NextReads offer a wealth of information to library users, and increasingly more librarians are running their own in-house RA services, with nifty innovations like reading maps.rnI recently found myself wondering why libraries don't similarly offer "music advisory" (MA) services to their patrons, and, further, whether such services would even be viable. Sure, established websites already exist offering "listening advice," like Allmusic and Pandora. But librarians shouldn't have to leave MA up to commercial services based on search algorithms.