This month I’m asking MCLS members for help: the MCLS Board of Directors will issue a brief 5-question survey focusing on the future to all of our member libraries on Wednesday, Sept. 3, and needs one response per member by Wednesday, Sept. 24. Please take this important survey to give our Board input they can …Read more »
Rebates of $500 are available from The Philosopher’s Information Center to first-time subscribers for a new one-year license to?The Philosopher’s Index. You may obtain a new license from any one of our three vendors:?EBSCO, Ovid, and ProQuest. Please note that EBSCO offers The Philosopher’s Index Full Text while Ovid and ProQuest offer Philosopher’s Index. Please …Read more »
ASTM International Today, 13,000 ASTM standards?are used around the world to improve product quality, enhance health and safety, strengthen market access and trade, and build consumer confidence. AENOR (UNE) on Compass® Prevent technical trade barriers and increase market access with Harmonized Standards. View MCLS member ASTM and 3rd Party Content Pricing and contact us at …Read more »
Several MCLS staff members will present at conferences this fall. If you’re at any of these conferences, we hope to connect with you! Also, plan to stop by our booth and say “Hi!” in the vendor area at UPRLC, MLA, and ILF. UPRLC Annual Conference September 17-18 at Bay College, Iron Mountain Executive Director Scott …Read more »
MCLS will hold its final Virtual Dialogue of 2025 on Thursday, Sept. 18 from 10:30 a.m.- noon Eastern (9:30-11 a.m. Central). All year, we’ve been bringing people in the library industry together to connect and engage around various topics related to the future of libraries. In September, we’ll be discussing the future of information access …Read more »
Do you have questions about ConsortiaManager (CM) or your MCLS eResource invoices? If so, please join us for ConsortiaManager + Accounting Coffee Hour on Wednesday, Sept. 10 at 2 p.m. Eastern (1 p.m. Central). These informal sessions are not recorded, and most of the hour is reserved for questions and discussion. Our September Coffee Hour …Read more »
Over the past year, Web of Science has introduced a range of enhancements designed to make it easier to discover, analyze, and share research. From improvements in search and navigation to new tools that support collaboration, transparency, and AI-powered insights, these updates are helping researchers and institutions work more efficiently and stay ahead in an …Read more »
Update: on July 31, 2025, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee’s spending bill, which included $291,800,000 in total funding for IMLS (see pp. 329-330 for a budget activity breakdown for programs such as Grants to States). With the U.S. Congress in recess until September, now …Read more »
LibraryPass curates high-interest, immersive digital content that helps schools and libraries expand and diversify their collections—without breaking their materials budgets—through its primary offering Comics Plus. Now through Sept. 30, Comics Plus subscriptions are discounted 20%. Contact us today at 517-939-1382 or services@mcls.org for your quote or demo with trial.
More than 84,000 titles from 114 publishers are currently included in the JSTOR Evidence-Based Acquisitions. The number of titles grows annually as more publishers join the program and a new copyright-years’ worth of content is added to the corpus. You get access to all titles with no usage restrictions over a set period, and at …Read more »
