Libraryman, Michael Porter, launched the 365 Library Days Project on April 8. See his blog for details. Michael encourages libraries to sign up for the 365 Library Days Project. Participating libraries agree to upload 365 pictures from in, around or about their libraries and to tag: 365libs. He writes, “Just imagine what a valuable historic …Read more »

The Michigan Supreme Court will hear arguments tomorrow in the case, Goldstone v. Bloomfield Township Public Library.  See articles in Battle Creek Enquirer and Detroit Free Press. The case involves the question of borrowing public library materials by non-residents. For further information, see MLA’s PPC web page.

Stanford’s Copyright Renewal Database is now searchable online at: http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/search/simple The database covers the copyright renewal records received by the US Copyright Office between 1950 and 1993 for books published in the US between 1923 and 1963. Note that the database includes ONLY US Class A (book) renewals. The welcome page notes: “The period from …Read more »

Kevin Driedger of the Library of Michigan has started a new blog for Michigan librarians: Library Preservation. To add this blog to your RSS reader, right-click here and copy to paste into your RSS reader. [For more information on RSS, see MLC’s RSS web page.] This new blog promises not to be boring! In his …Read more »

The Michigan Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee is offering a workshop on Friday, April 27, Street Legal for Patron Record Privacy. To register, use MLA’s online workshop form. Lawyers at the workshop will cover library privacy laws and court cases and will discuss the policies, procedures, and staff training needed to comply with those laws, …Read more »

Judy Hauser, information media consultant for Oakland Schools in Waterford, Michigan, has an article published in the February 2007 issue of Computers in Libraries. Click here to connect to the MeL Databases link to Judy’s cover story article, “Media specialists can learn Web 2.0 tools to make school more cool; using Web 2.0 tools can …Read more »

There is a great blog post on Creating Passionate Users titled “Face-to-face trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Videos.” Kathy Sierra asks – why are we still going to conferences when we now have social networking technology to allow us to meet online? She writes, “The point is, face-to-face still matters. And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking …Read more »

Today’s cover story in the Lansing State Journal features various Michigan ventures in Second Life, including MLC’s presence in Second Life. The main focus of the story, Bev and David Lang of LTS Video, are old friends of Michigan libraries.  They produced the video, “Establishing a District Library,” for the Library of Michigan in 1990 …Read more »

Anne K. Beaubien, Director and Cooperative Access Services and Grants Officer, University Library, University of Michigan, is the 2007 Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Librarian Award recipient.  The award recognizes and honors a librarian for outstanding professional achievement, leadership and contributions to ILL and document delivery. For the complete story, see ALA Press Release. …Read more »

Last week, Michael Stephens posted Ten Tech Trends for Librarians 2007 on his blog, Tame the Web.  His advice: Learn to Learn Adapt to Change Scan the Horizon His post states, “As we carry out our essential mission of service, stewardship and access, I really want folks in libraries to be able to watch the …Read more »