The fall library conference season has begun!  MCLS staff attended the MHSLA Conference this week and had a wonderful time meeting with our members from Michigan’s health science libraries. Executive Director Randy Dykhuis gave a presentation on the progress of the MCLS merger. We congratulated Leslie Burke from EBSCO on her election as the new …Read more »

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The October issue of MCLS News is now available online.  See the October issue for updates on the annual membership meeting, the newly-elected MCLS Board, upcoming workshops, member services offerings, Michigan Evergreen, RIDES, and more. For back issues of MCLS News, see our MCLS News web page.

Beginning July 1, 2011, MCLS is implementing a new uniform dues structure that will cover member libraries in Indiana and Michigan. After the merger in February, 2010, Indiana libraries were assessed dues based on INCOLSA’s former dues structure and Michigan libraries were assessed on MLC’s former dues structure. These dues covered memberships running through June …Read more »

MCLS is pleased to announce the new name of Michigan’s statewide delivery service! MeL Delivery will now be known as RIDES – Regional Interlibrary DElivery Service.  This change provides a better identification of the services provided. Delivery service will continue to operate as before, and contacts will remain unchanged.  See the MCLS RIDES web page …Read more »

MCLS is pleased to announce that Debbi Schaubman has accepted the job as Manager of Shared Library Systems.  This position will encompass the Michigan Evergreen shared open-source integrated library system (ILS), PALNI’s shared Aleph ILS, and related activities. She will begin her new duties on November 1, 2010. Debbi brings experience in library management and …Read more »

The MCLS Nominating & Leadership Development Committee seeks nominations from the membership for the following openings on the MCLS Board of Directors: Academic Library Representative Public Library Representative Research Library Representative School Library Representative Special Library Representative At-large Representative Each seat, except the At-Large seats, will have one representative from Indiana and one from Michigan. …Read more »

Carolyn Wheeler, Media Specialist at Conant Elementary School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, is a recipient of the national 2009 I Love My Librarian Award, sponsored by the New York Times and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.  Congratulations, Carolyn! Her nomination praised her stellar work with students, as follows: “This wonderful teacher and leader not …Read more »

Posted on behalf of Purdue University Libraries: Call For Papers: Special Issue of Collection Management Patron-Initiated Collection Development: Current Successes and Future Directions To be published in v. 35, no. 3/4 of Collection Management in 2010.  Seeking article proposals from colleagues at all kinds of libraries (all sizes of academic libraries, public libraries, and international …Read more »