Tomorrow, March 1st, is World Book Day. To celebrate World Book Day, the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, is launching an online display revealing the origins of Kenneth Grahame’s masterpiece of children’s literature, The Wind in the Willows.  The online display is an expanded version of an exhibition mounted for one day only on March …Read more »

The American Library Association announced in a press release this week that they now have space in Linden Labs’ 3D Virtual Reality, Second Life. ALA will have one half of ALA/Arts Island, which will be utilized as a new method for disseminating ALA news and information. It will also be used for reaching out to …Read more »

Photos from the February 15 program have been posted to MLC’s Flickr account.

The MLC Digital Libraries User Group met today here at MLC. Representatives from the 16 participating libraries meet twice a year to discuss collection development, training, promotions, tech issues, and the latest and greatest products available. Today much of the discussion centered on the addition of downloadable videos to the collecton. To paraphrase Kelli Perkins …Read more »

State Librarian Nancy Robertson posted “MeL ReMix – It’s Here!” on her blog today. Nancy wrote, “Hi everyone. Tuesday was a big day for us here at the Library of Michigan, as we celebrated the debut of MeL ReMix. The Michigan eLibrary (http://www.mel.org/) is Michigan’s 24-hour anytime, anywhere library — with its newly integrated content …Read more »

Here are some photos from MLC’s MeL Remix “afterglow” party in Second Life. MLC dance floor designed by Evette. Dance moves were “supplied,” so everyone danced like a star! View of MLC’s flag. Our fearless leader wasn’t able to attend, but he was there in spirit! Food, hot tub, and dance floor on the rooftop. …Read more »

The Cat in the Hat is turning 50 in 2007, and you can send the Cat an online birthday card.  For every birthday card sent, Random House will donate a book to First Book. The fifty states, Canada, and Washington, D.C. are ranked by the number of cards sent.  Currently, Michigan is in 50th place.  …Read more »

The comments from the MeL Remix Chat Live have been posted.  Click here to read the comments. Thank you all who came to our “afterglow” party in Second Life to celebrate the launch of MeL’s new look.  It was great to see so many people there! We’ll post photos later on our blog.

Some of you have been online this morning chatting live with State Librarian, Nancy Robertson, about the launch of the new MeL.  Several people have asked to be able to see the comments.  The Library of Michigan will post the comments tomorrow, and we’ll link to the comments from this blog.

The AccessMeL Periodical List-Full Text (AMPL-FT), brought to you by the Oakland Schools Information Center, has been updated to reflect the changes to the Michigan eLibrary databases. The AccessMeL Periodical List-Full Text (AMPL-FT) was created in order to provide a single alphabetical listing of periodicals and newspapers that contain full text articles from Michigan eLibrary …Read more »