The Cat in the Hat is turning 50 in 2007, and you can send the Cat an online birthday card.  For every birthday card sent, Random House will donate a book to First Book. The fifty states, Canada, and Washington, D.C. are ranked by the number of cards sent.  Currently, Michigan is in 50th place.  …Read more »

The AccessMeL Periodical List-Full Text (AMPL-FT), brought to you by the Oakland Schools Information Center, has been updated to reflect the changes to the Michigan eLibrary databases. The AccessMeL Periodical List-Full Text (AMPL-FT) was created in order to provide a single alphabetical listing of periodicals and newspapers that contain full text articles from Michigan eLibrary …Read more »

Michigan librarian Anne Marie Casey, associate dean of libraries at Central Michigan University, has been named the 2007 recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries Distance Learning Section Haworth Press Distance Learning Librarian Conference Sponsorship Award. This annual award honors an ACRL member working in the field of, or contributing to the success …Read more »

You’re Invited to a Virtual Party in Second Life! When: Tuesday, February 20, 12 noon – 1:00 p.m. EST Where: The Michigan Library Consortium (MLC) virtual building, Cybrary City, Second Life (212,198,24) Why: On February 20, the Library of Michigan will launch a new and improved Michigan eLibrary gateway, “MeL ReMix.” To celebrate MeL’s new …Read more »

Electronic Information For Libraries, eIFL-IP Advocacy for Access to Information, has released a new Handbook on Copyright and Related Issues for Libraries on their web site in html and downloadable PDF. The Handbook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license. Sponsored by UNESCO, the handbook is a practical guide to topical legal questions …Read more »

The History Channel is offering grants to libraries and other organizations for Save Our History projects.  The grant program application states: “The key to a Save Our History grant project is a partnership between a history organization, museum, historical society, preservation organization, archive, library, or a government agency and a school district, a coalition of …Read more »

Yesterday I posted to this blog about Will Sherman’s 33 reasons that librarians are still important. Today, I found a good follow-up blog post by Helene Blowers in her LibraryBytes blog, suggesting five more reasons that she gleaned from listening to her stakeholders: A literate society is import for our community to prosper. Libraries provide …Read more »

Will Sherman’s answer to this question is “no” in his post yesterday listing 33 Reasons Librarians Are Still Extremely Important. Read the list, pick your favorite, and hope that he’s right…

Here’s a photo of MLC staff taken today in Second Life. From left to right: Diana, Aaron, Ruth, Evette, Mark, Randy, Brian, and Suzanne. If you’re in Second Life, please stop by and visit our MLC building in Cybrary City (see especially our rooftop hot tub with complimentary bathing suits). One of our neighbors in …Read more »

The Computers in Libraries 2007 conference will be held April 16-18, 2007 in Arlington, VA.  MLC, in conjunction with the Missouri Library Network Corporation (MLNC) is pleased to be able to offer discounted rates to our members. Registration Information is available at http://www.mlnc.org/. Registrations must be received at MLNC no later than Friday, March 9, …Read more »