The following message is distributed on behalf of the Michigan Genealogical Council. Please feel free to share. Fellow Michigan genealogists and library supporters – Now is the time for Michiganians to come to the aid of our state’s history and learning. Your Michigan Genealogical Council is planning a public assembly in Lansing to show our …Read more »

As OCLC and the Michigan Library Consortium (MLC) continue to work in partnership on behalf of OCLC member libraries, we would like to inform you about some important changes with regard to how your library will now access support for OCLC products and services. Please be sure to share this news with staff members in …Read more »

Michigan Evergreen Training and Support Librarian The Michigan Library Consortium (MLC) is looking for a tech-savvy, problem-solving, adventurous librarian to join our Michigan Evergreen team. Michigan Evergreen is an open-source shared ILS project, with ten libraries in the shared system and more to be added in 2009-2010. This position is responsible for training and support …Read more »

Check out the new website for the Friends of Michigan Libraries.  They’ve got a great new design!

Have you registered yet? The theme of MLC’s Preservation Conference, “Who Are You Going to Call? Library-Vendor Partnerships in Preservation Projects,” is libraries working with preservation/conservation vendors on physical preservation projects. On June 5, the second day of MLC’s two-day Preservation Conference, Jennie Thomas, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, will discuss her library’s vendor collaboration …Read more »

The theme of MLC’s Preservation Conference, “Who Are You Going to Call? Library-Vendor Partnerships in Preservation Projects,” is libraries working with preservation/conservation vendors on physical preservation projects. Shannon Zachary, University of Michigan Library, will address “Mass Deacidification from Inside Out” at MLC’s Preservation Conference on June 4-5 2009 at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing, …Read more »

James Craven of the University of Michigan, our featured dinner speaker at the MLC Preservation conference on June 4, will entertain conference attendees with stories of three unique projects: the restoration of the Book of Martyrs, 1563, the conservation of a 1664 map of Brazil, and the unfolding and conservation of a 1447 parchment belonging …Read more »

Please use this FAX number to reach MLC:   517-492-3808    Due to circumstances out of our control our main fax number is out of order.  Service should be restored to our regular number by May 8th.  Additionally, the new number will remain in service permanently. Sorry for the inconvenience. 

Our luncheon speaker at MLC’s Preservation Conference on June 5 will be Nancy Kraft of the University of Iowa.  Nancy’s talk, “Disaster Response and Recovery: A Tale of Two Rivers,” will be the closing presentation at our two-day conference. The Cedar River runs through Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In early June 2008, the river came up …Read more »

Click below for a GREAT story! Hero pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger of Danville is now every librarian’s hero, too.