As an extension of its digitization project begun in 2006 with the New York Times and the Washington Post, Google announced yesterday that a number of publishers will give Google access to their historical newspaper content. Notably, ProQuest will give Google access to content from among the 10,000+ newspaper titles in its vault. The microfilms …Read more »

Daniel Chudnov, Information Technology Specialist in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress, will be the keynote speaker at MLC’s 2008 Annual Meeting, “Open Source, Open Libraries,” on Friday, October 3, 2008, in Lansing.  To register online for the program, go to MLC’s Workshop Registration page. We’re excited about Mr. Chudnov keynoting …Read more »

Over the course of many months, the leadership of Michigan Library Consortium and INCOLSA have been discussing ways in which we can collaborate to improve service and reduce costs for our members. We are pleased to announce that starting in October INCOLSA members will have access to the sizable e-resources collection of MLC. The combined …Read more »

The Michigan Library Consortium (MLC) is thrilled to announce that Branch District Library is our first Michigan Evergreen library to migrate to the open-source Evergreen software. Their new catalog is part of Michigan Evergreen, Michigan’s open-source ILS project. Migrations for the remaining Michigan Evergreen pilot libraries are scheduled for this fall: Grand Rapids Public Library …Read more »

What is your library worth to you? How much would you pay out-of-pocket for your library services? Check out this Maine State Library site! http://www.maine.gov/msl/services/calculator.htm

The Michigan eLibrary and Gale are extremely pleased to announce that the partnership with Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. has been revised to continue to offer Consumer Reports titles in full-text – but now with no embargo. Through this newly revised license agreement, users will no longer have to wait 90 days to …Read more »

Smart Poodle Publishing has announced its writing contest for librarians, “What I Wish Everyone Knew About Librarians.”  The contest is open to librarians of public, private and school/university libraries in the United States and who are legal residents of the United States. First prize is $500.  See the press release for details. Wouldn’t it be …Read more »

The Center for Social Media, American University School of Communication, has published a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video. Click here to download full report in PDF. The Code was developed by a committee of copyright scholars under the chairmanship of Peter Jaszi and Patricia Aufderheide. The document developed by the …Read more »

It looks like RDA (Resource Description and Access) has been delayed again.  Check out Karen Coyle’s blog post. MLC member librarians heard an earlier update on RDA at our Technical Services Conference in April this year.  We’ll post further update information as available.

The Michigan Library Consortium is pleased to announce that we have recently added three new MeL Database trainers: Elaine Erickson Director Ironwood Carnegie Library Ironwood (western UP) Kevin McDonough Reference and Electronic Services Librarian Northern Michigan University Marquette (central UP) Karen Becknell retired from Lamphere Schools residing in Farmington Hills (Detroit metro area) Each of …Read more »