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 »

MLC is offering a five-day Name Authority (NACO) training program on July 14-18, 2008. This program will include a review of the MARC21 Authority Format, as well as in-depth, hands-on exercises involving Chapters 22 – 26. To attend this training, your institution needs to become a participating member of NACO. For information on applying to …Read more »

The Liminal Librarian‘s recent post about consumerism and customer service includes the following about a local public library’s service to new businesses in the community: “The smart: I recently decided it was time to register LISjobs.com as a business, so filed a DBA with my local county. The other day, I received a letter from …Read more »

Our congratulations to Sandy Yee, Dean of Libraries at Wayne State University and MLC Board member, who has been elected to a six-year term on the OCLC Board of Trustees! “I look forward to helping to smooth the governance transition by working closely with colleagues on the 2008-2009 Members Council,” said Ms. Yee, who will …Read more »

MeL is pleased to announce that Gale has entered into an agreement to offer 41 journals from Nature Publishing Group, including their flagship publication, Nature, through Academic OneFile. These journals, which will carry a 12 month embargo and have an extensive backfile, will be made available in full-text with images over the next few weeks. …Read more »