The Michigan Library Association (MLA) Intellectual Freedom Committee and the MLA Marketing and PR Roundtable are offering a Spring workshop, “Porn, Policies and Public Relations,” in two locations: Friday, April 11, 2008, Farmington Community Library Friday, April 18, 2008, University Center, Gaylord Click on the links above for descriptions. To register, see MLA’s Registration web …Read more »

There are three Michigan librarians on the 2008 Library Journal Movers & Shakers list! Evette Atkin from Michigan Library Consortium “Multitalented” Steven Bowers from DALNET “Expanding OPACs” Marcia Mardis from Wayne State University “Push Technology” Congratulations all!

See today’s Detroit Free Press (March 4, 2008) for the article, “Michiganders make a living, meet and study in ‘Second Life’,” featuring MLC’s Evette Atkin and MLC’s Second Life building. [Photo by Dave Trumpie of Trumpie Photography, Lansing.]

Please see the following Awards announcement, posted on behalf of the Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Awards Committee: The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative was started to advocate for a complete rethink of the way libraries conduct resource sharing in the context of the global internet revolution. In order to showcase resource sharing innovation, the Rethinking Resource …Read more »

The University of Michigan announced the digitization of the millionth book this weekend. Most of the million volumes are products of the Michigan Digitization Project, a partnership with Google to digitize the entire U-M collection. Congrats U of M Library! One million down and 6.5 million to go!

Congratulations to Joan Elmouchi and her staff! Library Journal has named Chelsea District Library (McKune Memorial) the “Best Small Library in America.” It’s great to see a Michigan library win this honor! The press release notes: “CDL, which serves over 14,000 residents of the Chelsea District, made up of the city of Chelsea, and the …Read more »

At the MLC Board meeting on January 18, MLC Board Chair Pamela Grudzien presented a Certificate of Appreciation plaque to out-going Chair, Victor Liu, in recognition of his leadership work on the MLC Board.

MLC has posted a job opening for an ILS Training & Support Librarian to work on the Michigan Evergreen project. For links to the complete job description and application form, go to: http://mlcnet.org/cms/sitem.cfm/news__announcements/job_posting/

We’ve been hearing from a lot of folks in Michigan libraryland who read about Louise Bugg’s retirement in the December News@MLC that was posted yesterday (and also the longer news item from MLC’s News & Announcements page). Louise has touched a lot of lives in Michigan libraries over the past four decades! 🙂 Tomorrow is …Read more »

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 …Read more »