As part of its LJ Industry Leaders’ Library Advocacy web page, ProQuest has put together a Library Marketing Kit. The tools in the kit are designed to help libraries promote their online resources to their patrons. The kit includes a how-to guide on marketing online resources, a digital ad that can be downloaded to a …Read more »

About 120 new full-text journals from Springer, which includes more than 16,000 records, have been added to the Wilson Select Plus database on the OCLC FirstSearch service. Wilson Select Plus is one of the full-text databases that Michigan residents receive free-of-charge through MeL Databases. The full-text is available in PDF format. Coverage is from 2004 …Read more »

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 »

Recently, we have heard questions about the ability of new libraries to join MeLCat, and we wanted to clear up any confusion. MeLCat funding and staff have not changed. We will add libraries three times a year in 2007 and 2008, as usual. Our goal is to add 120 new libraries in 2007 and so …Read more »

Judy Hauser, information media consultant for Oakland Schools in Waterford, Michigan, has an article published in the February 2007 issue of Computers in Libraries. Click here to connect to the MeL Databases link to Judy’s cover story article, “Media specialists can learn Web 2.0 tools to make school more cool; using Web 2.0 tools can …Read more »

State Librarian Nancy Robertson posted “MeL ReMix – It’s Here!” on her blog today. Nancy wrote, “Hi everyone. Tuesday was a big day for us here at the Library of Michigan, as we celebrated the debut of MeL ReMix. The Michigan eLibrary (http://www.mel.org/) is Michigan’s 24-hour anytime, anywhere library — with its newly integrated content …Read more »

Here are some photos from MLC’s MeL Remix “afterglow” party in Second Life. MLC dance floor designed by Evette. Dance moves were “supplied,” so everyone danced like a star! View of MLC’s flag. Our fearless leader wasn’t able to attend, but he was there in spirit! Food, hot tub, and dance floor on the rooftop. …Read more »

The comments from the MeL Remix Chat Live have been posted.  Click here to read the comments. Thank you all who came to our “afterglow” party in Second Life to celebrate the launch of MeL’s new look.  It was great to see so many people there! We’ll post photos later on our blog.

Some of you have been online this morning chatting live with State Librarian, Nancy Robertson, about the launch of the new MeL.  Several people have asked to be able to see the comments.  The Library of Michigan will post the comments tomorrow, and we’ll link to the comments from this blog.

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 »