The MLC Nominating & Leadership Development Committee seeks nominations from the membership for the following openings on the MLC Board of Directors: Public Library Representative (one open seat) At-large Representative (two open seats) For details, see MLC’s News & Announcements.
On September 21, MLC is offering a special program on Electronic Rights Management (ERM). Please note that we’ll only offer this program once, so register now if you need to learn about ERM for your library!
The following is posted on behalf of Nancy Robertson, State Librarian, and Randy Dykhuis, MLC Executive Director. Update for Michigan libraries from Randy Dykhuis and Nancy Robertson about 1) MeLCat servers and 2) the status of NCIP: ———————————————————— 1. MeLCat servers MeLCat is run on several servers. There are two that the DCB libraries use …Read more »
Meredith Farkas is conducting a 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere. If you are a library-blogger, take the survey here. And please pass the word on to other library-bloggers.
Ball State University is hosting an oral history conference this fall, “Can you hear me now? Digitizing the voices of the past.” Featured speakers include Eric Lassiter and Elizabeth Campbell. The Conference will be held in Muncie, Indiana, on September 20. For registration details, see Ball State University’s conference page.
Mark your calendars for April 15, 2008, for the MLC Technical Services Conference to be held in Lansing! Our keynote speakers will be Karen Calhoun of OCLC and Tim Spalding of Library Thing. Karen Calhoun is the author of the Library of Congress report, The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other …Read more »
MeL Databases will be getting some new databases this fall when the new contracts begin on October 1st. Gale has generously started access to their new databases early. To access the new Gale databases – Chiltons and Business & Company Resource Center – log into any Gale MeL Database through http://mel.org or via your library’s …Read more »
The Michigan Supreme Court issued a decision today (July 26, 2007) in Goldstone v. Bloomfield Township Public Library in favor of the Library. Click here for link to Supreme Court opinion (PDF – 51 pages). In a four-to-three split, the Supreme Court held that Article 8 section 9 of the Michigan Constitution does not require …Read more »
Nader Qaimari, InfoTrac Product Manager at Gale, has announced PowerSearch enhancements coming soon: During the week of August 13th, Gale will release a set of new features to Gale’s InfoTrac databases and the PowerSearch platform. These new features will automatically be turned on and be made available to all PowerSearch users. We are extremely excited …Read more »
Evette Atkin from MLC is attending the Gaming, Learning and Libraries Symposium in Chicago this week. She’s blogging the symposium live at The unLibrarian blog.
