Great article from the New York Times Fashion & Style section about the “new breed” of librarians.
Great article from the New York Times Fashion & Style section about the “new breed” of librarians.
This week, Unshelved offers a great spoof of the “I’m a PC, I’m a MAC” campaign with comic strips on “Hi, I’m the Internet, and I’m the Library.” Starting with the June 25 comic strip, Unshelved’s Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum have hit the nail on the head yet again. 🙂
The following is a message from the State Librarian. Michigan public libraries are encouraged to complete the survey. The deadline is August 31. Thanks! Hi everyone, The state librarians’ association, COSLA, is organizing a survey of public libraries in each state to gather data on building and renovation construction. This is being undertaken in order …Read more »
Missouri Library Network Corporation (MLNC) has worked out an arrangement with Information Today, Inc. once again to offer greatly reduced rates to the Internet Librarian 2007 Conference, October 29-Â31 in Monterey, CA. MLNC has extended this offer to Michigan Library Consortium members as well. Details about this offer and a registration form are available in …Read more »
About 120 new full-text journals from Springer, which includes more than 16,000 records, have been added to the Wilson Select Plus database on the OCLC FirstSearch service. Wilson Select Plus is one of the full-text databases that Michigan residents receive free-of-charge through MeL Databases. The full-text is available in PDF format. Coverage is from 2004 …Read more »
Evette Atkin from MLC blogged live from ALA’s Annual Conference in DC until her laptop battery ran out. Click here to read her blog posts. Thanks for the great reporting, Evette!
The MeLCat Team is working hard to add 40 more libraries to MeLCat this summer! These 40 libraries attended day-long orientation sessions to kick off the three-month MeLCat implementation process for the summer group. Thanks to Wayne Public Library for hosting the session on June 8. Adrian Public Library Alma College Aquinas College Baker College …Read more »
Larry Neal of the Clinton-Macomb Public Library has written a wonderful explanation of the problems with the plaintiff’s case in Goldstone v. Bloomfield Hills Public Library. Click here to read his letter in the Macomb Daily. For links to the documents filed in the case, see MLA’s web site. Thanks, Larry, for your cogent argument …Read more »
State Librarian Nancy Robertson issued the following message on June 11, 2007: Dear colleagues, I am very pleased to announce that the moratorium on the FY07 payments of state aid to public libraries has been lifted. The first half payments that are still due will be released effective immediately. For the second half payment, although …Read more »
Today is the last day to vote for your favorite “I love my library” video in Gale’s Librareo $10,000 contest. Go to Librareo to view the videos and vote for your favorite. To view all of the videos submitted (including several from Michigan libraries), click here.
