Are you attending the MLA Annual Conference in Lansing this week? MLC staff are involved with a number of presentations. Evette Atkin is presenting a program on Second Life on Thursday at 10:45am (see News for details). Louise Bugg is presenting a MeLCat program on Wednesday at 4:00pm, and Suzanne Robinson is presenting on MeL …Read more »

Time magazine Best Inventions of the Year The Espresso Book Machine—meaning “fast,” not coffee—can churn out a 300-page paperback on demand, complete with color cover, in just 3 min. The $50,000 machine could transform libraries into minibookstores, making hard-to-find titles as accessible as cappuccinos. At $3 a book they might be cheaper too.

Future Reading by Anthony Grafton New Yorker magazine 11/05/07 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_grafton

Calling all Michigan librarians! ALA’s Copyright Advisory Network (CAN) is a free service for librarians who want to learn about copyright or get help with their copyright questions. Please post your copyright questions on the CAN website! To post a copyright question: 1. Register at: http://www.librarycopyright.net/wordpress/punbb/register.php 2. Log in. 3. Click on “Copyright Questions” and …Read more »

OCLC announces the release of its new report, Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World. It is available online in PDF and will be available for order in print later this month. In light of MLC’s annual meeting earlier this month, “Libraries Build Communities,” this is a timely report. Chrystie Hill, who was the …Read more »

OCLC has a new look and a new tag line. Click here for the full press release from OCLC.

CDP@BCR is considering development of a grant proposal for a workshop and internship on long term digital preservation for digitization collaboratives. They would like to assess the interest in such a program among the collaborative digitization community and to gather some background information. If your library is involved in collaborative digitization, please take the time …Read more »

Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web New York Times report on research libraries and digital collections.

A new video – Information R/evolution from Michael Wesch, who did The Machine Is Us/ing Us

Article in today’s New York Times: Library of Congress Advances 2 Digital Projects Abroad