The new year means a brand new training calendar at MCLS. The January-June term offers over eighty workshop choices, many of which are available online to attend in the comfort of your home and office. Check out the following workshops scheduled for January 2011: Assigning Library of Congress Subject Headings, Jan. 21, Lansing Office OCLC …Read more »

The MCLS-Indianapolis office has some older electronic equipment, furniture, book processing supplies, and training manuals that are available AT NO COST to Indiana MCLS members on a first-come, first-served basis.   Please read the “Fine Print” below for important details. PDF list of equipment offered. THE FINE PRINT: 1)  All items should be operational but this …Read more »

ALA’s second Pass It On, Preservation Week @ Your Library, will take place April 24-30, 2011. In 2010, four Indiana and Michigan libraries participated.  Take this opportunity to connect your communities’ collectors and collections to great library information resources to preserve them. See Preservation week resources for libraries and their users.

In just a few short days, your library patrons will be opening gifts of new Kindles, Nooks, iPads, and other eReaders.  After reading their pre-loaded books, these patrons will descend on your libraries in droves, asking for help to download eBooks and audiobooks from your catalog.  Are you ready for the onslaught? On April 28, …Read more »

MCLS offices will be closed all day on Friday, December 24; Monday, December 27; and Friday December 31, 2010.  MCLS offices will be open 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. EST on December 28, 29, and 30.

James Childress, who has worked in MCLS’s member services department for two years, will be leaving MCLS at the end of this week.  James and his family are returning to Rugby, North Dakota, where James will work with his father at Childress Insurance, Inc. James has been a tremendous asset to MCLS, and we are …Read more »

MCLS is pleased to announce Jackie Licalzi’s promotion from MeLCat Librarian to MeLCat System Administrator. Jackie will begin her new duties on January 3, 2011. Jackie came to MCLS (then MLC) in October 2006 as a MeLCat trainer. Since that time, she has had a hand in all things MeLCat — conducting orientations, training library …Read more »

The December 2010 issue of MCLS News is now available online.  See this issue for the latest news on the MCLS board, MCLS training, group discounts on databases, Michigan Evergreen, RIDES, and more. Visit our MCLS News web page to read back issues of MCLS News. Click here to subscribe or unsubscribe to receive MCLS …Read more »

Congratulations to two Michigan libraries, Peter White Public Library (Marquette) and West Bloomfield Township Library, and to Indiana museum, Conner Prairie Interactive History Park, on their IMLS awards of the 2010 National Medal for Museum and Library Service! Read more here.

Michigan’s MeL Databases program has been adding resources since its very beginning in 1997 and now includes over 40 databases and numerous important features. MCLS provides training and support for MeL Databases. In order to devote sufficient time to each database and feature, we are announcing a new class lineup.  In addition to moving the …Read more »