Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web New York Times report on research libraries and digital collections.

A new video – Information R/evolution from Michael Wesch, who did The Machine Is Us/ing Us

Article in today’s New York Times: Library of Congress Advances 2 Digital Projects Abroad

There’s a new set of photos from today’s workshop–Licensing Electronic Resources: An Introduction–led by our Associate Director Ruth Dukelow. Click here to view the photos.

The following is from a press release from The Center for Michigan. See especially #3 below for contest details to share with your staff and library patrons. October 11, 2007 (Lansing, Mich.) – More than 1,000 of community leaders and citizens are meeting in more than 80 locations this fall to move Michigan past bitter, …Read more »

Photos from MLC’s Annual Meeting have been posted to our account on Flickr. Click here to view them.

The Michigan Health Sciences Library Association (MHSLA) has a blog at: http://mhsla.wordpress.com/ Posts include recent information on Biomed Search, changes to health care, and other information for medical libraries.

Photos from the September 21 program led by Deberah England have been posted to MLC’s Flickr account. See the new set here.

Last Friday, 85 folks from MLC member libraries and staff gathered at Lansing Community College’s West Campus to hear about community-building activities in libraries. Chrystie Hill got the day off with an enthusiastic talk about the work libraries are doing to build a greater sense of community. Her thesis is that libraries are not just …Read more »

MHSLA, the Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association is having their annual conference in Bay City at the Doubletree Hotel, from September 26-28. I had the pleasure of working at the MLC table on Thursday. And enjoyed meeting with many of our MLC members. Well, while enjoying my wonderful taco bar lunch we were treated to …Read more »