MLC and INCOLSA have engaged a merger consultant, FIO Partners, to work with the boards and staffs to determine whether it is in the best interests of each organization to merge operations. Our first meeting with Jane Arsenault, the lead consultant for FIO Partners, is scheduled for July 29. We expect to have more information …Read more »

As OCLC and the Michigan Library Consortium (MLC) continue to work in partnership on behalf of OCLC member libraries, we would like to inform you about some important changes with regard to how your library will now access support for OCLC products and services. Please be sure to share this news with staff members in …Read more »

Missouri Library Network Corporation (MLNC) in cooperation with Information Today, Inc. is happy to offer reduced rates to the Internet Librarian 2009 Conference.  If you register for CIL 2009 through MLNC, you’ll receive the special rate of $279 for the full 3-day conference.  Discounts are also available for the Internet@Schools conference and a combination of …Read more »

Michigan Evergreen Training and Support Librarian The Michigan Library Consortium (MLC) is looking for a tech-savvy, problem-solving, adventurous librarian to join our Michigan Evergreen team. Michigan Evergreen is an open-source shared ILS project, with ten libraries in the shared system and more to be added in 2009-2010. This position is responsible for training and support …Read more »

Check out the new website for the Friends of Michigan Libraries.  They’ve got a great new design!

MLC’s Preservation Conference on June 4-5, 2009, will feature a number of vendors who have experience working with libraries on physical preservation projects. National Archives Publishing Company Preservation Technologies The HF Group Gaylord BMSCat Belfor Property Restoration There is still time to register for this two-day conference.  See MLC’s Preservation Conference Registration page for details …Read more »

Have you registered yet? The theme of MLC’s Preservation Conference, “Who Are You Going to Call? Library-Vendor Partnerships in Preservation Projects,” is libraries working with preservation/conservation vendors on physical preservation projects. On June 5, the second day of MLC’s two-day Preservation Conference, Jennie Thomas, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, will discuss her library’s vendor collaboration …Read more »

The theme of MLC’s Preservation Conference, “Who Are You Going to Call? Library-Vendor Partnerships in Preservation Projects,” is libraries working with preservation/conservation vendors on physical preservation projects. Shannon Zachary, University of Michigan Library, will address “Mass Deacidification from Inside Out” at MLC’s Preservation Conference on June 4-5 2009 at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing, …Read more »

This promotional library video was produced by St. Johns County (Fla.) Public Library for National Library Week. I like it because it makes the concept of “database” easily understandable to library patrons in an entertaining format – especially the whirlwind summary of the databases that this library has to offer. At four minutes, it might …Read more »

Kevin Driedger of the Library of Michigan will speak on “Socially Networked Preservation” at MLC’s Preservation Conference on June 4-5, 2009, at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing, Michigan. Kevin will examine how the library preservation community is currently making use of social networking, or web 2.0, technologies such as blogs and wikis. He will …Read more »