Announcement from INCOLSA, December 17, 2009: INCOLSA board members approved the resolution to combine with the Michigan Library Consortium at a special meeting today in Indianapolis. MLC members approved the same resolution at a meeting yesterday. INCOLSA’s board also authorized the Executive Committee to finalize the Memorandum of Understanding with MLC and to ensure that …Read more »

At a special meeting held on Wednesday, December 16, 2009, the MLC membership approved a resolution to accept a transfer of INCOLSA assets and liabilities, combining MLC with INCOLSA. The next step in the process will be INCOLSA’s membership vote on Thursday, December 17, 2009.  If INCOLSA’s membership approves the resolution, details regarding the transfer …Read more »

Carolyn Wheeler, Media Specialist at Conant Elementary School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, is a recipient of the national 2009 I Love My Librarian Award, sponsored by the New York Times and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.  Congratulations, Carolyn! Her nomination praised her stellar work with students, as follows: “This wonderful teacher and leader not …Read more »

Kirtland Community College Library will migrate to Evergreen in January 2010, making them the first academic library in Michigan to adopt Evergreen.  MLC is pleased to welcome Kirtland to the Evergreen family! Kirtland is working with Equinox Software, Inc., to install and implement Evergreen on the library’s local servers.  Michigan Evergreen staff Evette Atkin and …Read more »

For your convenience, we have created a page our website about the merger with INCOLSA. We have posted some frequently asked questions, a timeline, and links to previous articles.

As merger discussions continue between MLC and INCOLSA, we expect to convene a membership meeting to approve the merger before the end of the year. The merger design team has been meeting regularly since July and expects to complete its work by November 12, when a Memoradum of Understanding (MOU) will be crafted. The MOU …Read more »

MLC staff Evette Atkin, Megan Dudek, and Ruth Dukelow will demonstrate Michigan Evergreen functionality at the MLA Conference in Lansing on November 4-5.  Please stop by MLC’s booth #201-203 to see Michigan Evergreen in action! Wednesday, November 4, 2009 12:30-12:45pm Michigan Evergreen OPAC 1:30-1:45pm Michigan Evergreen Circulation 2:30-2:45pm Michigan Evergreen Cataloging 3:30-3:45pm Michigan Evergreen Admin …Read more »

Curious about Evergreen? Michigan Evergreen staff will be demonstrating the Evergreen open-source ILS software at the Michigan Library Association conference in Lansing on November 4-5 in the MLC booth (#201-203).  If you’re attending the MLA conference, please stop by and check it out! It was at the 2007 MLA Conference that MLC launched the Michigan …Read more »

Posted on behalf of Purdue University Libraries: Call For Papers: Special Issue of Collection Management Patron-Initiated Collection Development: Current Successes and Future Directions To be published in v. 35, no. 3/4 of Collection Management in 2010.  Seeking article proposals from colleagues at all kinds of libraries (all sizes of academic libraries, public libraries, and international …Read more »

The new set has been posted to MLC’s Flickr photostream. Keynote speaker was R. David Lankes. Lankes discussed how library service should match how people build knowledge, as well as the obligation and power of libraries participating in their communities and society as a whole. Colleen Hyslop (Michigan State Univ), Larry Neal (Clinton-Macomb PL), and …Read more »