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.

What’s going on with MeLCat? Where do we stand with NCIP? What’s new with MeL Databases? Where is MeL headed? MeL Users Day 2008 provides answers to these questions and much, much more! For a detailed agenda and to register online, see: https://members.mlcnet.org/workshops/viewcourse.html?id=185 MeL Users Day will be held at the Lansing Center on Tuesday, …Read more »

The class that gives your library staff an overview of all the changes to the MeL Databases will be ending March 31. The changes have been incorporated into all the other free classes. If you still want to schedule the three-hour What’s New 2007 overview, please contact Suzanne Robinson at MLC as soon as possible! …Read more »

Tight Budget? Need to offer your staff quality professional development? Is MeL being used to its fullest potential to serve your patrons? If you want your staff to be able to better utilize the tremendous resources found in the MeL Databases, we have FREE training available for you. You need eight library staff members. You …Read more »

We’ve been hearing from a lot of folks in Michigan libraryland who read about Louise Bugg’s retirement in the December News@MLC that was posted yesterday (and also the longer news item from MLC’s News & Announcements page). Louise has touched a lot of lives in Michigan libraries over the past four decades! 🙂 Tomorrow is …Read more »

This will affect CINAHL through MeL: In late December, EBSCO plans to release an exciting new design of the Visual Search option in the EBSCOhost and several other user interfaces EBSCO offers, such as the Student Research Center, the Business Searching Interface, the Literary Reference Center, the International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center, Kids Search, …Read more »

Are you attending the MLA Annual Conference in Lansing this week? MLC staff are involved with a number of presentations. Evette Atkin is presenting a program on Second Life on Thursday at 10:45am (see News for details). Louise Bugg is presenting a MeLCat program on Wednesday at 4:00pm, and Suzanne Robinson is presenting on MeL …Read more »

As part of the new enhancements released today by Gale, the name of InfoTrac OneFile was changed to General OneFile to describe the type of content in that database. It contains the more general-interest periodicals, news sources, etc., while Academic OneFile contains content specifically aimed at college and graduate level researchers. Note: Most of the …Read more »