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 The third edition of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing is now available. Revised for the first time in ten years, the MLA Style Manual is the standard guide for graduate students, scholars, and professional writers. Click here to learn about the differences between the MLA Style Manual and the MLA Handbook.
 The fifth edition of James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide is now available. The volume contains over one thousand updated and new entries describing print and electronic reference tools for the study of American and British literatures, other literatures in English, and related topics.
2008 MLA President Gerald Graff welcomes your comments on his latest column, titled "Bringing Writing In from the Cold."
MLA Bibliography Adds Abstracts
Effective with its April 2008 online update, the MLA International Bibliography will include publisher-provided abstracts in its bibliographic citations. The first group of over 9,000 abstracts, reprinted with permission of the publishers, come from PMLA, Project Muse, JSTOR, and German Quarterly. More abstracts will become available for search and display with each update. This enhancement is meant to provide our users with quality information to be used in their online research. Previous enhancements have included scholarly Web site indexing; full-text links to Project Muse, JSTOR, and ProQuest's Digital Dissertations and Theses; and digitization of retrospective 1926–62 print volumes.
The MLA International Bibliography is available to subscribing libraries through CSA, Cengage-Gale, Ebsco, OCLC, and ProQuest (Chadwyck-Healey) platforms. For more information, please contact bibliography@mla.org.
 The MLA's 2006 survey of enrollments in languages other than English reports that enrollments expanded by 12.9% since 2002, when the last MLA survey was conducted. The study of the most popular languages—Spanish, French, and German—continues to grow and represents more than 70% of language enrollments. There is growing interest in languages such as Arabic (up 126.5%), Chinese (up 51.0%), and Korean (up 37.1%). Enrollments in American Sign Language increased nearly 30% from 2002.
The MLA Language Map and its Data Center provide information about more than 47,000,000 people in the United States who speak languages other than English at home.
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