Planning for the Preservation Conference is almost complete!  For a summary of where we are so far with the speakers line-up, see Kevin Driedger’s Library Preservation blog. Kevin will also be one of our speakers, talking about 2.0 and preservation. The conference will be held at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing on June 4-5, …Read more »

Online registration is now available for the Fifth Annual MeL Users Day 2009. To liven things up this year, we are introducing a new segment of Pecha Kucha presentations. Pecha Kucha — also known as “w00tSlam” or “Lightning Round” — is a presentation format based on the triad:  “Be brief! Be brilliant! Be gone!” In …Read more »

Yesterday I received a message from one of our members that started out: “I just found out today that OCLC will be terminating the agreement with MLC on June 30, 2009. There seems to be some “buzz” going around about this.” I wasn’t too surprised to hear about the “buzz” as there has been quite …Read more »

Press release posted on LIS Wire: Contact: Justine Shaffner, Plinkit Collaborative Coordinator jshaffner@bcr.org ; 800.397.1552 x140 February 12, 2009 – Plinkit, a multi-state collaborative that uses an uncomplicated template-based web site creation toolkit, is delighted to announce it has added a ninth organization as a member. The Library of Michigan has joined Colorado, Illinois, Oregon …Read more »

Click below for a GREAT story! Hero pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger of Danville is now every librarian’s hero, too.

The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) has issued a new document, Statement on the Global Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Consortial Licenses. MLC has been active with ICOLC for many years and is one of the signatories to the statement. Libraries all around the world are feeling the pinch of the global financial …Read more »

An outside evaluation of MeL Delivery service was conducted from July – December 2008. The intent was to gather empirical data about how the system is functioning and where improvement can be made. Highlights of the study: * ProMed’s performance is substantially above industry standards of 95% for non-critical shipments. * The most significant improvement …Read more »

The MeL Delivery label making procedures have changed in an effort to make the process simple, efficient, and accurate. Click here for more details about the changes to: * Log In codes * Searching the label maker site. * Format of the printed labels.

LearningExpress has added sections on career planning and preparation, job search skills, and resume writing and interviewing skills.  These should be valuable to your patrons in this economic climate. LearningExpress will also release a new interface sometime in January.  Watch the meldatabases listserv for announcements. Remember, training on all MeL databases is free to any …Read more »

MLC’s delegates to OCLC’s Members Council have prepared an analysis of OCLC’s recently announced new policy on transfer and use of WorldCat records. Greetings! As your elected delegates to OCLC Members Council, we wanted to draw your immediate attention to the major changes that OCLC has made to its Policy for Use and Transfer of …Read more »