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 »

OCLC has a new look and a new tag line. Click here for the full press release from OCLC.

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 …Read more »

The following is from a press release from The Center for Michigan. See especially #3 below for contest details to share with your staff and library patrons. October 11, 2007 (Lansing, Mich.) – More than 1,000 of community leaders and citizens are meeting in more than 80 locations this fall to move Michigan past bitter, …Read more »

The Michigan Health Sciences Library Association (MHSLA) has a blog at: http://mhsla.wordpress.com/ Posts include recent information on Biomed Search, changes to health care, and other information for medical libraries.

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 »

Yesterday, the Michigan in Pictures blog featured a Flint photo from The Making of Modern Michigan collection. It is wonderful to see that folks are using the MMM collection. Yay! The featured photo is from Kettering University Library’s Scharchburg Archive. If you haven’t visited the Michigan in Pictures blog yet, you are in for a …Read more »

The Michigan Supreme Court has denied Bloomfield Hills attorney George Goldstone’s request for a rehearing of his case against the Bloomfield Township Public Library. See the Michigan Supreme Court News page.

We are happy and proud to announce that Ruth has been selected to be an ALA Copyright Scholar. The ALA Office for Information Technology Policy has chosen the Copyright Scholars for this year, and Ruth is one of eight new scholars. For the next two years, Ruth will devote a portion of her time to …Read more »

Today we announced the formal launch of the Michigan Libraries Wiki (click here for the press release). MLC staff and others have been working on the Michigan Libraries Wiki since December 2006, and the wiki is finally ready to go public. Yay! We had some great presenters last year at MLC’s Library Rebooted program on …Read more »