Evette Atkin from MLC blogged live from ALA’s Annual Conference in DC until her laptop battery ran out. Click here to read her blog posts. Thanks for the great reporting, Evette!
Evette Atkin from MLC blogged live from ALA’s Annual Conference in DC until her laptop battery ran out. Click here to read her blog posts. Thanks for the great reporting, Evette!
The MeLCat Team is working hard to add 40 more libraries to MeLCat this summer! These 40 libraries attended day-long orientation sessions to kick off the three-month MeLCat implementation process for the summer group. Thanks to Wayne Public Library for hosting the session on June 8. Adrian Public Library Alma College Aquinas College Baker College …Read more »
Larry Neal of the Clinton-Macomb Public Library has written a wonderful explanation of the problems with the plaintiff’s case in Goldstone v. Bloomfield Hills Public Library. Click here to read his letter in the Macomb Daily. For links to the documents filed in the case, see MLA’s web site. Thanks, Larry, for your cogent argument …Read more »
State Librarian Nancy Robertson issued the following message on June 11, 2007: Dear colleagues, I am very pleased to announce that the moratorium on the FY07 payments of state aid to public libraries has been lifted. The first half payments that are still due will be released effective immediately. For the second half payment, although …Read more »
Today is the last day to vote for your favorite “I love my library” video in Gale’s Librareo $10,000 contest. Go to Librareo to view the videos and vote for your favorite. To view all of the videos submitted (including several from Michigan libraries), click here.
MLC is offering two Special Programs this fall, in addition to our regular workshop lineup. For further information and to register online, please click on the links below. Electronic Resources Management (ERM) is a half-day program scheduled for September 21. Presenter Deberah England of Wright State University will cover the basic concepts of ERM for …Read more »
MLC invites you to the grand opening of our virtual building in the 3-D virtual reality, Second Life (Cybrary City II 167,51,21)! The celebration is on Thursday, July 12, 2007 from 4:00-6:00pm SL time (7:00pm-9:00 EST). Please join us in Second Life for virtual music, dancing and refreshments! If you need help finding our building …Read more »
On April 23, the Canton Public Library launched a new blog at www.cantonpl.org/blog. To encourage a sense of community, the blog extends Canton’s “library as place” to provide an online space for library patrons to gather and explore and to share ideas and resources. The initial post invites the public to comment, saying, “We’ll feature …Read more »
Please see below for a call for papers for the Model T Conference to be held at the Henry Ford in Dearborn next year. Sounds like it might be a good opportunity for some Michigan libraries to publicize their automotive collections and digitization projects! The World of the Model T Conference July 17-19, 2008 Dearborn …Read more »
In honor of National Library Week 2007, Thomson Gale is launching librareo, an online community for libraries and the people who love them. To start off the project with a big splash, librareo is hosting an “I Love My Library” video contest. The top prize is $10,000 to be split equally between the videomakers and …Read more »
