Kevin Driedger of the Library of Michigan will speak on “Socially Networked Preservation” at MLC’s Preservation Conference on June 4-5, 2009, at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing, Michigan. Kevin will examine how the library preservation community is currently making use of social networking, or web 2.0, technologies such as blogs and wikis. He will …Read more »
We are so pleased to announce that Ruth is MLA’s 2009 Librarian of the year! The letter from the MLA awards committee cited Ruth’s outstanding achievements over her years of providing service to Michigan libraries. In her award letter, Kristen Valyi-Hax, Awards Committee chair, wrote, “We appreciate your hard work and dedication on behalf of …Read more »
MLC was delighted to host staff members’ daughters.
Diane McKee from Howell Carnegie Library kindly gave permission for me to post these photos of Richard Douglass speaking at the Beginning Workshop in 1987.
This past week on the michlib-l listserv, it seems fitting – and a little ironic – that the posts were about either Richard Douglass or AV lending. In the 1980’s, Richard Douglass was the driving force behind Michigan libraries buying videos to lend to their patrons. Hard to believe today but when videos first became …Read more »
I was pretty happy to hear President Barack Obama mention a public library in his speech this week. He said, “I think about Ty’Sheoma Bethea, the young girl from that school I visited in Dillon, South Carolina — a place where the ceilings leak, the paint peels off the walls, and they have to stop …Read more »
Planning for the Preservation Conference is almost complete! For a summary of where we are so far with the speakers line-up, see Kevin Driedger’s Library Preservation blog. Kevin will also be one of our speakers, talking about 2.0 and preservation. The conference will be held at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing on June 4-5, …Read more »
Yesterday I received a message from one of our members that started out: “I just found out today that OCLC will be terminating the agreement with MLC on June 30, 2009. There seems to be some “buzz” going around about this.” I wasn’t too surprised to hear about the “buzz” as there has been quite …Read more »
Click below for a GREAT story! Hero pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger of Danville is now every librarian’s hero, too.
An outside evaluation of MeL Delivery service was conducted from July – December 2008. The intent was to gather empirical data about how the system is functioning and where improvement can be made. Highlights of the study: * ProMed’s performance is substantially above industry standards of 95% for non-critical shipments. * The most significant improvement …Read more »
