MLC invites you to the grand opening of our new virtual building in the 3-D virtual reality, Second Life (Cybrary City II 167,51,21)! The celebration is on Thursday, July 12, 2007 from 4:00-6:00pm SL time (NOTE! That’s 7:00pm-9:00pm EDT). Please join us in Second Life for virtual music, dancing and refreshments! Here’s a panoramic view …Read more »

Computers in Libraries (CIL) has issued the Call for Speakers for CIL 2008. The 2008 conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, VA, on April 7-9, 2008. The deadline for submitting a proposal is August 24, 2007. Michigan has been well-represented at CIL in the past. I hope Michigan librarians …Read more »

Missouri Library Network Corporation (MLNC) has worked out an arrangement with Information Today, Inc. once again to offer greatly reduced rates to the Internet Librarian 2007 Conference, October 29-­31 in Monterey, CA. MLNC has extended this offer to Michigan Library Consortium members as well. Details about this offer and a registration form are available in …Read more »

MLC invites you to the grand opening of our virtual building in the 3-D virtual reality, Second Life (Cybrary City II 167,51,21)! The celebration is on Thursday, July 12, 2007 from 4:00-6:00pm SL time (7:00pm-9:00 EST). Please join us in Second Life for virtual music, dancing and refreshments! If you need help finding our building …Read more »

I’m trying to find out if any Michigan librarians are posting videos to YouTube. I’ve heard from a lot of you who are viewing videos on YouTube, but so far no one has admitted to posting videos! At Computers in Libraries last month, the first InfoTubey Awards were handed out to libraries who used YouTube …Read more »

Kevin Driedger of the Library of Michigan has started a new blog for Michigan librarians: Library Preservation. To add this blog to your RSS reader, right-click here and copy to paste into your RSS reader. [For more information on RSS, see MLC’s RSS web page.] This new blog promises not to be boring! In his …Read more »

Judy Hauser, information media consultant for Oakland Schools in Waterford, Michigan, has an article published in the February 2007 issue of Computers in Libraries. Click here to connect to the MeL Databases link to Judy’s cover story article, “Media specialists can learn Web 2.0 tools to make school more cool; using Web 2.0 tools can …Read more »

There is a great blog post on Creating Passionate Users titled “Face-to-face trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Videos.” Kathy Sierra asks – why are we still going to conferences when we now have social networking technology to allow us to meet online? She writes, “The point is, face-to-face still matters. And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking …Read more »

Today’s cover story in the Lansing State Journal features various Michigan ventures in Second Life, including MLC’s presence in Second Life. The main focus of the story, Bev and David Lang of LTS Video, are old friends of Michigan libraries.  They produced the video, “Establishing a District Library,” for the Library of Michigan in 1990 …Read more »

Last week, Michael Stephens posted Ten Tech Trends for Librarians 2007 on his blog, Tame the Web.  His advice: Learn to Learn Adapt to Change Scan the Horizon His post states, “As we carry out our essential mission of service, stewardship and access, I really want folks in libraries to be able to watch the …Read more »