Indiana and Michigan library staff are invited to attend one of 11 Community Conversations to be held in August and September. There will be six held in central and northern Indiana, and five held in northern and western Michigan. The purpose of these conversations is to gather information about the needs of the library community and …Read more »
MCLS is pleased to announce our newest team member, Jan Davidson. Jan comes to us with a strong background in nonprofit program management. Since 2012 she served as the Director of Programming and Outreach for the Center for FaithJustice in Lawrenceville, NJ, and recently moved back to her hometown of Lansing. She says, “I’ve worked …Read more »
The MCLS Nominating Committee seeks nominations from the membership for the following openings on the MCLS Board of Directors: Special Library Representative (Michigan) Academic Library Representative (Michigan) Public Library Representative (Indiana) At-Large Library Representative (Indiana) Each seat has a three-year term, beginning January 1, 2017 and expiring December 31, 2019. The Board meets 4 times …Read more »
“Is Google making us stupid?” Nicholas Carr asked, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story. Carr delves further into the question in his book The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains, the selected title for “Libraries Read: 1 Book.” MCLS invited library staff across Indiana and Michigan to place votes on one …Read more »
MCLS is offering up to 15 scholarships to MCLS member libraries in Indiana to send staff to the Harwood/ALA Public Innovators Lab, October 19-21 2016 in Atlanta, GA. These funds are being made available through a grant program established by the MCLS Board of Trustees from the proceeds of the sale of the former INCOLSA …Read more »
MCLS is pleased to announce that 10 individuals from nine Indiana libraries were selected to receive a scholarship from MCLS to participate in the Harwood Virtual Public Innovators Lab, June 23 to August 11, 2016. The funds were made available to MCLS member libraries through a grant program established by the MCLS Board of Trustees …Read more »
Suzanne Robinson, Continuing Education Librarian, will retire from MCLS on June 10. We wish her much happiness in her pursuit of leisure time and personal interests! We interviewed her about her time at MCLS and her plans for the future. How long have you worked at MCLS? I started in August of 2001, just a …Read more »
The MCLS Nominating Committee seeks nominations from the membership for the following openings on the MCLS Board of Directors: Special Library Representative (Michigan) Academic Library Representative (Michigan) Public Library Representative (Indiana) At-Large Library Representative (Indiana) Each seat has a three-year term, beginning January 1, 2017 and expiring December 31, 2019. The Board meets 4 times …Read more »
We invite you to participate in “Media boot camp: interviewing skills” on July 27 at the Wheatfield branch of the Jasper County Public Library (IN). We will review some of the basic tips for being interviewed by the media, and then attendees will participate in multiple interview scenarios. Interviews will be played back and constructively …Read more »
The Library of Michigan and MCLS are pleased to announce a second round to our several-month long community engagement training program for Michigan library staff. The training will be led by coaches from the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation . It will be robust, extensive, and is being offered at no charge to selected Michigan …Read more »
