See the photos from MeL Users Day, or check out MLC’s other Flickr sets.

Online registration is now available for the Fifth Annual MeL Users Day 2009. To liven things up this year, we are introducing a new segment of Pecha Kucha presentations. Pecha Kucha — also known as “w00tSlam” or “Lightning Round” — is a presentation format based on the triad:  “Be brief! Be brilliant! Be gone!” In …Read more »

LearningExpress has added sections on career planning and preparation, job search skills, and resume writing and interviewing skills.  These should be valuable to your patrons in this economic climate. LearningExpress will also release a new interface sometime in January.  Watch the meldatabases listserv for announcements. Remember, training on all MeL databases is free to any …Read more »

The Michigan eLibrary and Gale are extremely pleased to announce that the partnership with Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. has been revised to continue to offer Consumer Reports titles in full-text – but now with no embargo. Through this newly revised license agreement, users will no longer have to wait 90 days to …Read more »

The Michigan Library Consortium is pleased to announce that we have recently added three new MeL Database trainers: Elaine Erickson Director Ironwood Carnegie Library Ironwood (western UP) Kevin McDonough Reference and Electronic Services Librarian Northern Michigan University Marquette (central UP) Karen Becknell retired from Lamphere Schools residing in Farmington Hills (Detroit metro area) Each of …Read more »

MeL is pleased to announce that Gale has entered into an agreement to offer 41 journals from Nature Publishing Group, including their flagship publication, Nature, through Academic OneFile. These journals, which will carry a 12 month embargo and have an extensive backfile, will be made available in full-text with images over the next few weeks. …Read more »

All MeL accounts for NoveList now have a link from each record to MeLCat.  Users can look up a book in NoveList, then click on the MeLCat link to find out which MeLCat library owns it. In addition, any library that wants to display a link to its own online catalog can contact the MeL …Read more »

How does the public distinguish fact from fallacy? How can we help people deal with the age of information overload and misinformation. Why do we need to get students and faculty and the public using MeL? This is an article about information literacy in today’s world. It’s well worth reading and well worth sharing, so …Read more »

These are just a few comments from recent classes taught by the MeL Databases trainers: It was great! Great chance to be exposed to these resources, opens up a lot of possibilities. Lots of tips regarding how to do specific things! WOW – so useful! Great presentation, easy to follow, allows for self-education. Great overview …Read more »

Photos of the 2008 MeL Users Day at the Lansing Center have been posted to MLC’s Flickr account. Click here to view the new set.