For the past few months, MLC staff and others have been working on putting together content for the Michigan Libraries Wiki – see http://mlcnet.org/wiki. We’re excited to announce that the wiki is finally “ready for prime time” and will launch formally next week. Our goal is to provide a useful library wiki for Michigan library …Read more »

The Grantsmanship Center is offering their Grantsmanship Training Program in Royal Oak, Michigan on October 15-19, 2007.  For details and registration, click here.

The following is a news release from Gale about enhancements to the PowerSearch platform and cross-searching interface. Dear Valued Customers: As communicated earlier this summer, there will be an exciting feature release late this evening which will affect the InfoTrac databases on the PowerSearch platform, as well as the cross-searching interface. This release will not …Read more »

The MLC Nominating & Leadership Development Committee seeks nominations from the membership for the following openings on the MLC Board of Directors: Public Library Representative (one open seat) At-large Representative (two open seats) For details, see MLC’s News & Announcements.

On September 21, MLC is offering a special program on Electronic Rights Management (ERM).  Please note that we’ll only offer this program once, so register now if you need to learn about ERM for your library!

The following is posted on behalf of Nancy Robertson, State Librarian, and Randy Dykhuis, MLC Executive Director. Update for Michigan libraries from Randy Dykhuis and Nancy Robertson about 1) MeLCat servers and 2) the status of NCIP: ———————————————————— 1. MeLCat servers MeLCat is run on several servers. There are two that the DCB libraries use …Read more »

Meredith Farkas is conducting a 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere. If you are a library-blogger, take the survey here. And please pass the word on to other library-bloggers.

Mark your calendars for April 15, 2008, for the MLC Technical Services Conference to be held in Lansing! Our keynote speakers will be Karen Calhoun of OCLC and Tim Spalding of Library Thing. Karen Calhoun is the author of the Library of Congress report, The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other …Read more »

MeL Databases will be getting some new databases this fall when the new contracts begin on October 1st. Gale has generously started access to their new databases early. To access the new Gale databases – Chiltons and Business & Company Resource Center – log into any Gale MeL Database through http://mel.org or via your library’s …Read more »

The Michigan Supreme Court issued a decision today (July 26, 2007) in Goldstone v. Bloomfield Township Public Library in favor of the Library. Click here for link to Supreme Court opinion (PDF – 51 pages). In a four-to-three split, the Supreme Court held that Article 8 section 9 of the Michigan Constitution does not require …Read more »