Online registration is now available for the 2011 MeLCat Users Day, scheduled for Friday, November 4, at Causeway Bay in Lansing.  Participating MeLCat libraries are encouraged to send staff to keep abreast of the latest MeLCat developments; to share concerns, questions, and suggestions about MeLCat functionality, policies, and procedures; to network with other MeLCat staff; …Read more »

MeLCat is great … and about to become even better!  Last year, Michigan library patrons placed more than one million requests for book and AV loans through MeLCat. This year, Michigan residents will be happy to hear that MeLCat plans to add an article requesting service, ArticleReach, later this fall. ArticleReach will allow MeLCat library …Read more »

March and April were busy months for the MCLS RIDES Advisory Committee. Between March 30 and April 18, RIDES Coordinator Sue Alt, select Advisory Committee members, and other library staff visited six ProMed delivery warehouse hubs to learn more about ProMed’s role in Michigan’s statewide delivery process.  They met with the warehouse managers at each …Read more »

What if you could offer your patrons access to 7 million books with the click of a mouse? Imagine an easy patron-initiated resource-sharing service with visible shelf status. Other states have done it, and Indiana can too! MCLS Executive Director Randy Dykhuis and other MCLS staff are scheduled to present at four of the Indiana …Read more »

We are thrilled to announce that MeLCat, Michigan’s statewide resource-sharing system, received over one million requests in 2010, making MeLCat the first INN-Reach system to break a million requests in a single calendar year.  At the end of December 2010, MeLCat had received 1,049,653 requests and had filled 931,812 loans, achieving an impressive fill rate …Read more »

MCLS is pleased to announce that we are now offering Relais International’s suite of resource-sharing services to our membership. Relais International’s products and services provide systems and software solutions to automate and streamline libraries’ interlibrary loan and document delivery services.  The suite of services includes Relais ILL, Relais D2D, and Relais Express. For detailed information …Read more »

Posted on behalf of Purdue University Libraries: Call For Papers: Special Issue of Collection Management Patron-Initiated Collection Development: Current Successes and Future Directions To be published in v. 35, no. 3/4 of Collection Management in 2010.  Seeking article proposals from colleagues at all kinds of libraries (all sizes of academic libraries, public libraries, and international …Read more »