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The MCLS Board of Directors has accepted the Nominating Committee’s proposed slate of candidates for the four seats whose terms expire at the end of December 2016.
The four seats that will be open are: Academic Library Representative (Michigan), At-Large Library Representative (Indiana), Public Library Representative (Indiana), and Special Library Representative (Michigan).
Electronic voting to approve the slate of candidates begins on September 19. All Member Representatives should receive an email on September 19 with voting instructions. Votes will be accepted via an online ballot. The voting deadline is 5pm Eastern on October 7.
Read more about the slate of nominees>>
The theme of this year’s meeting will be Innovation in Libraries. We will have morning and afternoon keynote speakers, “state of libraries” presentations from the State Librarians from the Michigan and Indiana State Libraries, and a business meeting during lunch, as well as roundtable discussions with current MCLS board members. This year, the meeting will be held (and simulcast) in three locations in hopes that members from throughout our region will be able to attend.
On September 30, a collaborative of Michigan library service agencies are sponsoring Reading Redefined: Deep reading, learning, and the impact of digitization, a one-day symposium in Lansing to discuss the ways that reading is changing as our environment and interactions become ever more digital. We are excited to have Maryanne Wolf and Natalie Phillips as plenary speakers. They are both pre-em
inent researchers in the field. In addition to their own published research, they have been featured in numerous articles and interviews.
Deadline to register is September 23; register today!
Is patron bashing a problem? Are there any therapeutic benefits to letting off steam? Join Samantha Minnis for our Third Thursday Twitter Chat on September 15 at 2pm Eastern to discuss this phenomenon and why avoiding patron bashing not only leads to better service for library users, but a happier work life for library professionals. Use the hashtag #MCLSchat.
MCLS is committed to supporting the community engagement efforts of libraries in Indiana and Michigan. We have upcoming community engagement roundtable discussions scheduled in both states. These discussions are free and open to anyone with an interest. Join us for the opportunity to support one another in your community engagement efforts.
September 8: Ohio Township Public Library, Newburgh, IN
September 20: Loutit District Library, Grand Haven, MI
December 1: Bristol Public Library, Bristol, IN
Note: Bristol is conveniently located near the state line, and Michigan library staff are welcome.
For more information or for more workshops through December, visit our upcoming workshops and events page. If you have any questions, please contact training@mcls.org.
Readers' Advisory, based on Nancy Pearl's Four Doorways and Beanstack’s Summer Reading platform, a reading programs and readers' advisory solution customized to your library, are introducing a premium feature that provides teen and adult readers with personalized recommendations. Readers select their preferences for the books they most enjoy: Plot-Driven, Prose-Focused, Place-Focused, or People-Focused. Recommendations are sent by email or text including an additional tag for emotional mood, such as happy, nostalgic, or weird.
MCLS members receive a 20% discount on an annual license for Beanstack's summer reading platform and readers' advisory service for children. This new teen and adult readers' advisory feature will be included at no additional cost through October 31st.
For 50 years, The Chronicle of Higher Education has been the essential resource keeping administrators and faculty plugged into the latest news, trends, data, and discussions impacting academe. Site license access gives everyone at your institution the important insight they need as higher education professionals.
A site license to The Chronicle of Higher Education provides:
MCLS and Infobase Learning are partnering to offer you the chance to win 40% off one Infobase Learning database subscription. Request a quote from MCLS for any Infobase Learning product before October 15, 2016 and you will be entered into a raffle to win 40% off one of your quoted databases. Look for our announcement of the winner in our November newsletter.
Plus, everyone can be a winner by taking advantage of a 40% discount on Infobase Learning’s SCIENCE Online Resources, Science Online and Today’s Science.
SpringerNature has curated three new journal collections for small and medium hospitals available to new subscribers: General Medicine (30 journals), Pediatrics (34 journals), and Cancer (50 journals). These collections are specifically designed for small and medium hospitals. Titles were selected by medical librarians using usage data from the top 100 medical libraries in the U.S. Access is from 2007 forward with no ownership.
Springer 2017 Specialty Collections title lists
*Offer available to Michigan academic libraries only
APA Style CENTRAL from the American Psychological Association provides tools for how to think and write like scholars, as it prepares the next and future generations of academic writers. It focuses on the application and proper use of APA Style, the leading writing style for the behavioral sciences and many other disciplines.
APA Style CENTRAL serves students who are new to academic writing and APA Style, as well as those who are more advanced in their academic careers, but need to reinforce their understanding of APA Style rules. It provides pedagogical tools for instructors and assistance for researchers who are actively publishing. APA Style CENTRAL is a flexible and versatile resource for all facets of the scholarly writing and research processes.
*Offer available to public libraries only
A recent AARP survey reports nine in 10 people say brain health is important, but few know how to maintain it. Subscribing to BrainHQ is an easy way to make brain health a priority for your patrons. Our brains are at their peak performance at age 27, but through continual learning and new challenges, we can help remodel our brains to function at their highest potential, so we can lead the life we want.
BrainHQ is an online suite of 27 exercises with 840+ levels of training organized around the six core cognitive areas of Attention, Brain Speed, Memory, People Skills, Intelligence, and Navigation. Exercises are delivered in short, two minute or less segments, adapting speed and delivery to your performance. A private, personal dashboard visualizes your performance and provides feedback and suggestions on areas of focus.
Through training, you too can gain improvement to memory, experience increased visual and auditory processing, and improve reaction time.
For more information, please contact Chrystal Babbitt at 800-530-9019 ext 401 or services@mcls.org.
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall," wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby. MeLCat welcomes back all of the schools that suspended MeLCat participation for the summer. Many libraries had temporary closures due to construction and renovation projects, or a move to a new location. If you are in doubt, check the MeLCat Participating Libraries list for current status.
MeLCat staff have been busy all summer with many projects. A new group of libraries is being organized for implementation, and many more are now using NCIP to facilitate processing. Testing continues for Pick Up Elsewhere, a new option that will be available to libraries, and investigations into Linked Data may soon bring MeLCat to a new level of discovery.
Let us know at melcathelp@mcls.org if you have any questions!
Due to changes in available options, many of the RIDES routes had to be redesigned. After a few weeks of adjusting days of service, things have settled into a routine. If you are having any kind of issue or problem with your 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!
