Archive for September, 2006
The Michigan Library Consortium is pleased to announce that Jackie Licalzi will be joining the staff on October 2 as a MeLCat trainer. Welcome Jackie!
Jackie brings a wealth of experience to her new position. In her previous job as Coordinator of Support Services at West Bloomfield Public Library, she was deeply involved with the library’s implementation of InMich, MeL, and MiLE. She developed training materials, conducted classes, and provided ongoing support. Prior jobs include Catalog Librarian at Clermont County Public Library in Batavia, OH and Library Technical Clerk at Southfield Public Library.
You can contact Jackie at licalzij@mlcnet.org or phone: 800-530-9019 x146.
September 29th, 2006
Th Copyright Modernization Act of 2006, H.R. 6052 (click here for 99-page PDF), was introduced in the House on September 12. This Act amends Title 17 of the U.S. Code to “provide for licensing of digital delivery of musical works and to provide for limitation of remedies in cases in which the copyright owners cannot be located, and for other purposes.”
Title 1 addresses music licensing, Title 2 addresses orphan works, and Title 3 addresses copyright protection resources.
I have to confess that I haven’t read through this bill yet. There is some discussion about the bill on Patry’s copyright blog.
September 19th, 2006
Last night, I had the pleasure attending a free lecture by Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. sponsored by GVSU. Gates was wonderful despite having his lower leg in a cast with pins and having taken a lot of vicodin.
He told an engaging story about his journey to bring W.E.B. Dubois dream of
an encyclopedia about African and African American people to reality.  Encyclopedia Africana was first published in 1999 and later released on cd-rom by Microsoft as Encarta Africana.
Dr. Gates was also psyched about the Google Five project and commented that Google is going to make everything available and he thinks that’s just great! He also shared with us news that Google is also working with scholars in Timbuktu, Africa to digitize African texts that are over a 1,000 years old. Exciting stuff!
Later, as I was leaving the lecture and walking to my car, I met a GVSU alum. She and I decided to brave the dark together on our way to the parking lot.
I asked her thoughts about Dr. Gates talk and one of the first things she mentioned was Dr. Gates’ comments about reading on-line. Gates mentioned during his talk that he’s a book man, he has to hold a text in his hand and even prints long essays and articles. My new friend told me,“I read long things on-line all the time, and don’t even think of printing them out.â€Â Gates is 56 and this alum is 24. Generational divide? I don’t know but I had a great time listening to Dr. Gates.
September 15th, 2006
The ALA TechSource blog has a great posting by Teresa Koltzenburg about the
“user-outreach Mecca that is the Ann Arbor District Library (AADL)” and the winner of the Talis-sponsored “Mashing Up the Library” competition – AADL’s John Blyberg (also of blyberg.net). John’s entry was the Go-Go-Google Gadget.
September 12th, 2006
MLC’s latest blog, The Library Rebooted: Unwrapped, is getting press from other bloggers.
Our blog is now on the blogroll at WCC Librarians blog. And Michael Habib posted about us on his LIS blog.
If you haven’t yet visited The Library Rebooted: Unwrapped, please check it out. And if you would like to post about what your library is doing, please contact Evette Atkin for a guest blogger login and password!
September 6th, 2006
MLC is pleased to announce that the Center for Digital Government awarded a 2006 Achievement Award to the Michigan eLibrary, MeL, this week. MeL won in the “Government-to-citizen State government†category.
At MLC, we were especially proud to learn of this honor, because MLC’s MeL staff who work diligently “behind the scenes†are a driving force in making MeL successful. For details, please see MLC’s News & Announcements.
September 1st, 2006
New from Google – Google Book Search – a site where you may search the full text of eBooks to find ones that interest you and learn where to buy or borrow them. Many books have Library Links. Look for the “Find this book in a library” link to find a local library that has a copy.
For more information go to the Google site.
September 1st, 2006
