This may be the most boring blog post you read all week. Just giving you fair warning. But it illustrates the tightrope we walk nearly every day when it comes to keeping our expenses down so we can offer our services to you at rates that are as low as possible. For us, the hardest …Read more »
MCLS is offering a hands-on RDA (Resource Description and Access) workshop in Indianapolis on October 29. There is still time to register. For details and to register online, go to the MCLS Workshop registration page. If you need assistance with online registration, please contact Heather Thomas at MCLS, 800-530-9019 x133.
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The fall library conference season has begun! MCLS staff attended the MHSLA Conference this week and had a wonderful time meeting with our members from Michigan’s health science libraries. Executive Director Randy Dykhuis gave a presentation on the progress of the MCLS merger. We congratulated Leslie Burke from EBSCO on her election as the new …Read more »
OCLC is offering free seminars in Michigan on October 26, 27, and 28 on CONTENTdm and WorldCat Local quick start. See message below from OCLC for details: To Michigan libraries participating in the Library of Michigan’s FirstSearch group subscription: The Library of Michigan subscribes to the FirstSearch® Base Package on behalf of all Michigan libraries. …Read more »
Oct 19 free training on Wilson Omnifile Fulltext SELECT: “Lunch & Learn” about the enhanced full text content and host of new features currently available to Michigan libraries in Wilson’s Omnifile Full Text SELECT through MeL and in the Wilson 14 database subscriptions. Experience hands-on training with Wilson’s Read Speaker text-to-speech, full-text language translations, My …Read more »
Mea culpa. Yes, I made a mistake during my update at last week’s annual membership meeting. During my recitation of the past year’s events and actions, I should have prominently featured the change in our membership structure and dues that will be effective July 2011. I’ve heard from some of you that you felt blindsided …Read more »
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The October issue of MCLS News is now available online. See the October issue for updates on the annual membership meeting, the newly-elected MCLS Board, upcoming workshops, member services offerings, Michigan Evergreen, RIDES, and more. For back issues of MCLS News, see our MCLS News web page.
Beginning July 1, 2011, MCLS is implementing a new uniform dues structure that will cover member libraries in Indiana and Michigan. After the merger in February, 2010, Indiana libraries were assessed dues based on INCOLSA’s former dues structure and Michigan libraries were assessed on MLC’s former dues structure. These dues covered memberships running through June …Read more »
