MLC was delighted to host staff members’ daughters.

Please use this FAX number to reach MLC:   517-492-3808    Due to circumstances out of our control our main fax number is out of order.  Service should be restored to our regular number by May 8th.  Additionally, the new number will remain in service permanently. Sorry for the inconvenience. 

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Our luncheon speaker at MLC’s Preservation Conference on June 5 will be Nancy Kraft of the University of Iowa.  Nancy’s talk, “Disaster Response and Recovery: A Tale of Two Rivers,” will be the closing presentation at our two-day conference. The Cedar River runs through Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In early June 2008, the river came up …Read more »

Diane McKee from Howell Carnegie Library kindly gave permission for me to post these photos of Richard Douglass speaking at the Beginning Workshop in 1987.

This past week on the michlib-l listserv, it seems fitting – and a little ironic – that the posts were about either Richard Douglass or AV lending.  In the 1980’s, Richard Douglass was the driving force behind Michigan libraries buying videos to lend to their patrons. Hard to believe today but when videos first became …Read more »

I was pretty happy to hear President Barack Obama mention a public library in his speech this week.  He said, “I think about Ty’Sheoma Bethea, the young girl from that school I visited in Dillon, South Carolina — a place where the ceilings leak, the paint peels off the walls, and they have to stop …Read more »

Planning for the Preservation Conference is almost complete!  For a summary of where we are so far with the speakers line-up, see Kevin Driedger’s Library Preservation blog. Kevin will also be one of our speakers, talking about 2.0 and preservation. The conference will be held at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing on June 4-5, …Read more »

Online registration is now available for the Fifth Annual MeL Users Day 2009. To liven things up this year, we are introducing a new segment of Pecha Kucha presentations. Pecha Kucha — also known as “w00tSlam” or “Lightning Round” — is a presentation format based on the triad:  “Be brief! Be brilliant! Be gone!” In …Read more »

Yesterday I received a message from one of our members that started out: “I just found out today that OCLC will be terminating the agreement with MLC on June 30, 2009. There seems to be some “buzz” going around about this.” I wasn’t too surprised to hear about the “buzz” as there has been quite …Read more »