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If you have an avatar in Second Life, please join us tonight for a seminar at MLC’s Second Life building (7pm Michigan time). Please contact Evette Atkin (atkine@mlcnet.org) if you need help with coordinates.
Group Notice From: Evie Mikazuki
Join MLC tonight at 4pm SL for the presentation, “Breathing new life into your Digital Collections: The University of Detroit-Mercy Black Abolitionist Archive.” This talk will be given by Rosie Kidd, of the UDM site on Eduisland.
December 6th, 2007
The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA has announced the Outcomes of their October meeting on their web site. RDA – Resource Description and Access – is a new standard that will replace AACR2, scheduled for release in 2009.
We at MLC are excited to announce that RDA expert, Chris Oliver of McGill University, will be a presenter on RDA at MLC’s Technical Services Conference in Lansing on April 15, 2008. Chris is the author of “Changing to RDA.”
To see the complete conference agenda and to register online, see Technical Services Conference on MLC’s workshop registration page.
November 26th, 2007
Online registration is now open for MLC’s January-June 2008 workshops. Check out our line-up of 50 sessions at: https://members.mlcnet.org/workshops/ We have something for everyone, including workshops on Flickr, YouTube, RSS, cataloging, reference, copyright, licensing, Second Life, podcasting, and more. Plus — new this February 26! — “Tune In! Media and Technology for Youth Services.” Register now before the holiday rush!
In addition to our regular hands-on workshops, we are offering three special programs this semester:
February 19, 2008 – MeL Users Day (Lansing Center)
March 17, 2008 – Jessamyn West’s Teaching Technology in Libraries (LCC West)
April 15, 2008 – Technical Services Conference (LCC West)
To register online and for complete descriptions of MLC’s regular workshops and special programs, go to: https://members.mlcnet.org/workshops/ The print schedule will be mailed out this week and is also available online in PDF format.
If you have any questions about MLC’s workshops, special programs or registration system, please feel free to contact Heather Thomas at thomash@mlcnet.org or 800530-9019 x133.
November 20th, 2007
Are you attending the MLA Annual Conference in Lansing this week? MLC staff are involved with a number of presentations.
Evette Atkin is presenting a program on Second Life on Thursday at 10:45am (see News for details). Louise Bugg is presenting a MeLCat program on Wednesday at 4:00pm, and Suzanne Robinson is presenting on MeL Databases on Thursday at 8:45am (see MeL blog for details).
MLC staff will also be demo’ing the Evergreen open-source ILS at the MLC booth #23-24 (see Evergreen blog for details).
Hope to see you there!
November 6th, 2007
Time magazine Best Inventions of the Year
The Espresso Book Machine—meaning “fast,” not coffee—can churn out a 300-page paperback on demand, complete with color cover, in just 3 min. The $50,000 machine could transform libraries into minibookstores, making hard-to-find titles as accessible as cappuccinos. At $3 a book they might be cheaper too.
November 5th, 2007
Future Reading by Anthony Grafton
New Yorker magazine 11/05/07
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_grafton
October 29th, 2007
OCLC announces the release of its new report, Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World. It is available online in PDF and will be available for order in print later this month.
In light of MLC’s annual meeting earlier this month, “Libraries Build Communities,” this is a timely report. Chrystie Hill, who was the keynote speaker at our annual meeting, blogged about OCLC’s latest report, saying:
“…bottom line: the creation of the ’social web’ is well underway. in general, users (and librarians) do not see a place for the library there. to me this is sad news, but i remain hopeful …” Read her entire post here.
Earlier OCLC reports (Perceptions and Environmental Scan) sparked a lot of discussion, and change, among MLC member libraries. I’m looking forward to hearing what our MLC members have to say about OCLC’s newest report.
October 25th, 2007
CDP@BCR is considering development of a grant proposal for a workshop and internship on long term digital preservation for digitization collaboratives. They would like to assess the interest in such a program among the collaborative digitization community and to gather some background information. If your library is involved in collaborative digitization, please take the time to complete their brief survey.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=E3uY4d4ELARqjiUIzuWqeQ_3d_3d
October 23rd, 2007
Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web
New York Times report on research libraries and digital collections.
October 22nd, 2007
Article in today’s New York Times:
Library of Congress Advances 2 Digital Projects Abroad
October 18th, 2007
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