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"The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains" by Nicholas Carr has been selected as the title for “Libraries Read: 1 Book.” MCLS encourages library staff to read the book throughout June and July, then join us in a live Twitter chat about the book on Thursday, July 21 at 2pm Eastern (1pm Central) at #MCLSchat. Regional discussions will also be announced and take place in early August.
MCLS is pleased to announce that 10 individuals from nine Indiana libraries were selected to receive a scholarship from MCLS to participate in the Harwood Virtual Public Innovators Lab, June 23 to August 11, 2016.
The following libraries were selected:
The Library of Michigan and MCLS are pleased to announce the capacity of the Michigan Harwood Cohort is slated to double. Starting in October 2016 a second group of Michigan library staff will undergo a several month long community engagement training program. The training will be led by coaches from the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, and is being offered at no charge to selected Michigan libraries, with generous stipends provided through Library of Michigan LSTA funding.
MCLS is offering up to 15 scholarships to MCLS member libraries in Indiana to send staff to the Harwood/ALA Public Innovators Lab, October 19-21, 2016 in Atlanta, GA. The deadline for application is June 30.
These funds are being made available through a grant program established by the MCLS Board of Trustees from the proceeds of the sale of the former INCOLSA building.
The MCLS Nominating Committee seeks nominations from the membership for the following openings on the MCLS Board of Directors:
Each seat has a three-year term, beginning January 1, 2017 and expiring December 31, 2019. The Board meets 4 times a year, in February, May, August, and November, and Board meetings alternate between Michigan and Indiana. The November meeting includes a two-day strategy retreat to review activity of the previous year, assess trends, and determine strategic changes to MCLS’s services. Newly elected Board members are asked to attend the annual retreat. MCLS reimburses Board members for all direct meeting expenses.
We appreciate you taking the time to send us requests and we want to assist you as quickly and thoroughly as possible. Therefore, MCLS Member Services has migrated to Request Tracker (RT), a customer service management system. We look forward to utilizing RT to supply you with prompt answers to your questions about eResources and products as well as the best possible customer service. To help us in our transition, please email your future requests to services@mcls.org. Our entire team will see your message and the appropriate team member will respond. Please let us know if you have any questions about this process. We are happy to help.
Suzanne Robinson, Continuing Education Librarian, will retire from MCLS on June 10. We wish her much happiness in her pursuit of leisure time and her many personal interests! We interviewed her about her time at MCLS and her plans for the future.
Indiana and Michigan library staff are invited to attend one of 11 Community Conversations to be held in August and September. There will be six held in central and northern Indiana, and five held in northern and western Michigan. The purpose of these conversations is to gather information about the needs of the library community and to explore your hopes, concerns, and aspirations. This spring we held rounds of conversations in both states and already have talked to over 150 library staff. We look forward to continuing this conversation and sharing what we learned from you.
Join us every third Thursday in 2016, at 2pm Eastern (1pm Central), for a series of Twitter chats on topics of significance to libraries and library staff. Our next chat will feature current library school students, Mahassin Ahmin, who is pursuing her MLS degree at IUPUI and Samantha Minnis, who graduated this spring from Kent State with her MLIS. They will bring us up to date on what the current curriculum looks like for library and information science students.
As a follow-up to our Media Coaching workshops, we invite you to participate in "Media boot camp: interviewing skills." We will review some of the basic tips for being interviewed by the media, and then attendees will participate in multiple interview scenarios. Interviews will be played back and constructively critiqued by your peers. Never say "no comment" again! It's fun, it's safe, and it's friendly to practice with your colleagues. Join us at the Wheatfield branch of the Jasper County Public Library, in Wheatfield, IN on July 27.
Registration is now open for MCLS online workshops scheduled from August to December. Build and expand your skills with us. View the upcoming semester schedule.
For any questions, please email training@mcls.org
For more information, visit our upcoming workshops and events page. If you have any questions, please contact training@mcls.org.
Save on Ovid Technologies’ Nursing eBooks with a custom collection built for you. By purchasing the collection, you gain unlimited, perpetual access to 20 titles with a guaranteed upgrade to the latest edition of a title if it is released within three months of purchase. Select titles in the package include:
For more information and a complete title list, please see Ovid Technologies’ MCLS vendor page, or contact Member Services at 800-530-9019 ext 401 or services@mcls.org.
Save over 20% on one print order and one R2 Digital Library order and save over 20% on all R2 Patron Driven Acquisition titles ordered throughout the Rites of Spring promotion.
To order, please contact Connie Aschinger at connie.aschinger@rittenhouse.com or 800-345-6425 ext 338 and use promotion code ROS16.
For more information, please see Rittenhouse Book Distributor’s MCLS vendor page, or contact Member Services at 800-530-9019 ext 401 or services@mcls.org.
Save 10% on BrowZine, the ideal service for leveraging and visually presenting the library’s eJournals. Whether accessing BrowZine’s streamlined user interface from a web browser or the mobile app, users can immediately browse journals by subject, review tables of contents, browse back issues, and get to full-text articles in one-click. BrowZine also offers automation and integration options for libraries that enhance existing library systems to transform the end user experience and help alleviate the daily workflow issues faced by librarians when managing e-journal subscriptions.
For more information, please see Third Iron’s MCLS vendor page, or contact Member Services at 800-530-9019 ext 401 or services@mcls.org.
ProQuest Central combines the complete content of over 30 of the most heavily used ProQuest databases across all major subject areas, with deep coverage in business, health and medical, news, social sciences, arts and humanities, and science and technology. It provides the largest single academic research content set available, with access to scholarly journals, high value market research, country, economic, and industry reports, essential pre-print working papers, full text dissertations, and a vast number of newspapers, professional journals, and general interest periodicals.
Contact Member Services at 800-530-9019 ext 401 or services@mcls.org for trial access or a quote, or visit ProQuest’s MCLS vendor page for more information.
Welcome to the newest MeLCat libraries! The most recent group to go live on MeLCat includes Alden District Library, Bellaire Public Library, Evart Public Library, Richland Township Library, White Lake Community Library, and White Pine District Library. We are also pleased to welcome the Library of Michigan back to full MeLCat participation.
MeLCat questions should be sent to the MeLCat Help Desk: melcathelp@mcls.org.
The MeL project is funded by the Federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) via the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through the Library of Michigan, part of the Michigan Department of Education. Additional funding is provided by the State of Michigan.
The RIDES Advisory Committee has been visiting the courier warehouses. Members have toured the warehouses, talked to the managers, and gotten an eye-opening look at the sorting and delivery process. Did you know that the main warehouse sorts between 10,000 and 15,000 items every night? Contact one of the committee members if you are curious about what they learned!
If you are having any kind of issue or problem with RIDES service, please let us know as soon as possible by submitting a message to the RIDES Assistance form. We can't fix a problem if we don't know about it!
