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Planning is underway for the 3rd Annual IMDPLA Fest on Friday, September 21st at the Indianapolis Public Library Central Branch.
The Fest Planning Committee is pleased to announce that John Bracken, Executive Director of DPLA, will deliver the keynote address about his vision for the future of the Digital Public Library of America. Full program and registration information are available on their website now.
The Fest Planning Committee is also forming a lightning talk round (several 5 minute presentations) to describe/demonstrate your favorite tools for display, metadata editing, scanning, preservation, workflow, etc., and they invite your participation! Email imdpla@gmail.com to submit your proposal for a lightning talk.
Register today for the Community Engagement Summit!MCLS, in partnership with the Library of Michigan, is pleased to be hosting a Community Engagement Summit in September. Richard C. Harwood, President and Founder of The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, will be the keynote presenter. The day will include other national leaders in community engagement, as well as a panel of directors from Michigan libraries who are making great strides in engaging their own communities.
Registration is currently open to all! The event is limited to 200 participants and is already half full, so register today!
The Michigan Collaborating Partners (Michigan Cooperative Directors Association, Library of Michigan, Midwest Collaborative for Library Services, Michigan Library Association, and Michigan Academic Libraries Association) invite you to a day-long workshop on accessibility in libraries on Friday, November 9, 2018.
Equality in access for every member of your community is a core library value and it can be challenging to satisfy all of the needs of your patrons. This workshop will cover important aspects of library accessibility and provide you with new tools to help serve all patrons equally.
Please join us for Libraries Read: 1 Book 2018Thank you to all who voted for this year's Libraries Read: 1 Book title. We hope you are joining us in reading this year's winner, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha bandele.
We invite you to join us for an in-person discussion about the book in August, or host your own discussion. Email engagement@mcls.org for a copy of the suggested discussion questions.
Find out details and register for a book discussion>>
Join us for a Twitter Chat about culinary literacyThis month's Third Thursday Twitter Chat is titled Culinary Literacy in the Library. We'll be joined by Liz Fitzgerald, Administrator of the Culinary Literacy Center of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Liz will chat with us about culinary literacy programming in the library, including what tools are needed, program examples, and finding partners.
We hope you can join us on Twitter on Thursday, August 16 at 2pm Eastern (1pm Central). Use the hashtag #MCLSchat.
New to Twitter? Here are instructions.
Are you planning to attend the Internet Librarian conference in October? If so, MCLS and Amigos Library Services can help you save money on early bird conference registration. Register for the conference using this embedded link, and your discount should automatically populate. If you need the discount code for any reason, it is AMI18. Please contact Nicole at Amigos at walsh@amigos.org with any questions.
Notes from the Executive DirectorIn August 2011, libraries on the Atlantic coast of the United States were thrashed by Hurricane Irene. Barely a year later, Hurricane Sandy struck. Both storms caused damage to library buildings, equipment, and collections. One New Jersey library was damaged by Irene and Sandy, and after being forced to rebuild for a second time, closed permanently. Librarians at the Health Science Library at New York University took what they thought were sensible precautions prior to Sandy making landfall. In retrospect, says Jeff Williams, director of the library, such precautions seemed almost comically inadequate. Responding to criticism, university officials said that the building was constructed to code that was designed to survive a flood twenty percent worse than any in the previous 100 years. It wasn’t enough. What is going to happen to libraries and other cultural heritage institutions as we experience more effects of climate change, including higher temperatures and humidity, rising sea levels, and stronger storm surges?
This month, meet MCLS trainer Andrea Morrison, who is Head, Monographic Text Cataloging at Indiana University, Bloomington. Andrea is also an adjunct professor at Indiana University, Department of Information and Library Science, School of Informatics and Computing, and an adjunct lecturer for University of Washington, Information School. She regularly leads cataloging workshops for Indiana Library Federation and the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians, and we are thrilled to have her as an instructor for MCLS. She has served for many years on ALA and ALA Government Documents Round Table cataloging committees, currently serving on Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA). Some fun facts about Andrea in her own words:
I’m passionate about teaching and sharing good monographic cataloging - with colleagues, in person, virtually, or at conferences, and with catalogers and students where I work at Indiana University Bloomington.
I am an international folk dance teacher and leader with I.U. International Folkdancing. I enjoy dancing tremendously, especially all types of folk dancing!
I love to play tennis, garden, and travel.
I love to read – I have a B.A. in English Literature and still love to read classic novels. I’m a fan of fantasy and science fiction since I first read The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R.Tolkien, and I love to read nonfiction, especially biography.
Andrea has been teaching for MCLS since 2017. She has four upcoming webinars this semester: FRBR: An Introduction and Cataloging Local Documents in October, Cataloging with Variant Titles in November, and Cataloging Related Works and Expressions in December. Registration is currently open for these courses in the MCLS Store.
For more information, visit our upcoming workshops and events page. If you have any questions, please contact training@mcls.org.
MarketLine Advantage provides a unique & exclusive mix of company, industry, country, city, and financial data covering every major industry and marketplace. With such comprehensive and broad coverage, MarketLine Advantage is a cross-curricular business resource that meets the needs of students and educators from multiple disciplines and departments.
MarketLine is a trusted source, relied upon by blue chip companies globally. By subscribing to MarketLine Advantage, library users will benefit from the same first-class business information resource. MarketLine Advantage’s simple, intuitive interface, easy to understand language, and wide range of extraction capabilities make the service easy to use. It also offers free online tutorials, training sessions, and regular usage reports to increase user satisfaction and help budget holders justify investment.
If you would like more information or a quote for MarketLine Advantage, contact Megan Drapalik at services@mcls.org or (800) 530-9019 ext 401.
This is the year to join your colleagues in MCLS who already have access to SAGE Premier! With SAGE Premier, your library will have access to high-quality, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal content, all in one perfect package. SAGE has designed SAGE Premier with and for librarians. Your students, faculty, and researchers will find content they depend on with the tools they need to simplify their research process.
If you would like more information or a quote for SAGE Premier, contact Chrystal Pickell at services@mcls.org or (800) 530-9019 ext 401.
Thank you to the more than 250 MeLCat staff from around the state that came out to see us at this year's MeLCat Users Days! We had a wonderful time meeting you all, and we learned a lot from you.
To let us know if you need assistance with anything, email us at melcathelp@mcls.org.
The MeL project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Additional funding is provided by the State of Michigan and the Library of Michigan Foundation.
