Photos from the 2008 Annual Meeting have been posted to MLC’s Flickr account. To see the new set, click here.

In preparation for MLC’s special program “Open Source, Open Libraries,” we polled the lists a couple months ago asking for information on open source software currently in use in Michigan libraries.  The list of the responses is now compiled on the Open Source page on the Michigan Libraries Wiki at: http://mlcnet.org/wiki/index.php/Open_Source Please feel free to …Read more »

Daniel Chudnov, Information Technology Specialist in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress, will be the keynote speaker at MLC’s 2008 Annual Meeting, “Open Source, Open Libraries,” on Friday, October 3, 2008, in Lansing.  To register online for the program, go to MLC’s Workshop Registration page. We’re excited about Mr. Chudnov keynoting …Read more »

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 …Read more »

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 »