The Michigan Library Consortium is pleased to announce that we have recently added three new MeL Database trainers: Elaine Erickson Director Ironwood Carnegie Library Ironwood (western UP) Kevin McDonough Reference and Electronic Services Librarian Northern Michigan University Marquette (central UP) Karen Becknell retired from Lamphere Schools residing in Farmington Hills (Detroit metro area) Each of …Read more »

MLC is offering a five-day Name Authority (NACO) training program on July 14-18, 2008. This program will include a review of the MARC21 Authority Format, as well as in-depth, hands-on exercises involving Chapters 22 – 26. To attend this training, your institution needs to become a participating member of NACO. For information on applying to …Read more »

The Liminal Librarian‘s recent post about consumerism and customer service includes the following about a local public library’s service to new businesses in the community: “The smart: I recently decided it was time to register LISjobs.com as a business, so filed a DBA with my local county. The other day, I received a letter from …Read more »

Our congratulations to Sandy Yee, Dean of Libraries at Wayne State University and MLC Board member, who has been elected to a six-year term on the OCLC Board of Trustees! “I look forward to helping to smooth the governance transition by working closely with colleagues on the 2008-2009 Members Council,” said Ms. Yee, who will …Read more »

MeL is pleased to announce that Gale has entered into an agreement to offer 41 journals from Nature Publishing Group, including their flagship publication, Nature, through Academic OneFile. These journals, which will carry a 12 month embargo and have an extensive backfile, will be made available in full-text with images over the next few weeks. …Read more »

All MeL accounts for NoveList now have a link from each record to MeLCat.  Users can look up a book in NoveList, then click on the MeLCat link to find out which MeLCat library owns it. In addition, any library that wants to display a link to its own online catalog can contact the MeL …Read more »

How does the public distinguish fact from fallacy? How can we help people deal with the age of information overload and misinformation. Why do we need to get students and faculty and the public using MeL? This is an article about information literacy in today’s world. It’s well worth reading and well worth sharing, so …Read more »

MLC staff enjoyed “Take Your Daughter to Work Day” today. Here are some photos of the volunteer daughters who showed up at MLC to help out!

Posted on behalf of The Henry Ford: The World of the Model T – International Conference July 17-19, 2008 Dearborn and Detroit, Michigan In 2008, the “Car of the Century” turns 100. Celebrate this landmark event by attending The World of the Model T – International Conference, July 17-19 in southeastern Michigan. Two full days …Read more »

Our big news at MLC this week is that we signed a contract with Equinox to provide consulting and data conversion/migration services for the Michigan Evergreen project. Click here for Equinox’s press release. This is an exciting step for us, because we’re now ready to start the real work of converting the pilot libraries’ data …Read more »