Two of us from Michigan – Evelyn Freeman of Oakland Schools and I – were interviewed for an article in current issue of T.H.E. Journal, “Do the (Copy)right thing.” As many of you know, Evelyn has been very active in bringing copyright information to school librarians, especially through her training sessions at annual MAME conferences. …Read more »

There are three Michigan librarians on the 2008 Library Journal Movers & Shakers list! Evette Atkin from Michigan Library Consortium “Multitalented” Steven Bowers from DALNET “Expanding OPACs” Marcia Mardis from Wayne State University “Push Technology” Congratulations all!

NoveList is a popular readers’ advisory database for children through adults. In mid-March, a new interface was launched to make it even easier for users to find information about favorite books, authors, award winners, and recommended “good reads.” The Home page has a monthly Spotlight in the center of the screen. The right column offers …Read more »

See today’s Detroit Free Press (March 4, 2008) for the article, “Michiganders make a living, meet and study in ‘Second Life’,” featuring MLC’s Evette Atkin and MLC’s Second Life building. [Photo by Dave Trumpie of Trumpie Photography, Lansing.]

These are just a few comments from recent classes taught by the MeL Databases trainers: It was great! Great chance to be exposed to these resources, opens up a lot of possibilities. Lots of tips regarding how to do specific things! WOW – so useful! Great presentation, easy to follow, allows for self-education. Great overview …Read more »

Photos of the 2008 MeL Users Day at the Lansing Center have been posted to MLC’s Flickr account. Click here to view the new set.

Please see the following Awards announcement, posted on behalf of the Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Awards Committee: The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative was started to advocate for a complete rethink of the way libraries conduct resource sharing in the context of the global internet revolution. In order to showcase resource sharing innovation, the Rethinking Resource …Read more »

The Michigan Library Consortium (MLC) is hosting a seminar in Second Life on Tuesday, February 12, 4pm SL time (that’s 7pm EST – Michigan time). The seminar will focus on Evergreen ILS open-source software. Our speakers will be Don McMorris from Equinox and Tim Daniels from one of the Georgia libraries using Evergreen. The seminar …Read more »

What’s going on with MeLCat? Where do we stand with NCIP? What’s new with MeL Databases? Where is MeL headed? MeL Users Day 2008 provides answers to these questions and much, much more! For a detailed agenda and to register online, see: https://members.mlcnet.org/workshops/viewcourse.html?id=185 MeL Users Day will be held at the Lansing Center on Tuesday, …Read more »

The University of Michigan announced the digitization of the millionth book this weekend. Most of the million volumes are products of the Michigan Digitization Project, a partnership with Google to digitize the entire U-M collection. Congrats U of M Library! One million down and 6.5 million to go!