This will affect CINAHL through MeL: In late December, EBSCO plans to release an exciting new design of the Visual Search option in the EBSCOhost and several other user interfaces EBSCO offers, such as the Student Research Center, the Business Searching Interface, the Literary Reference Center, the International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center, Kids Search, …Read more »

The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA has announced the Outcomes of their October meeting on their web site. RDA – Resource Description and Access – is a new standard that will replace AACR2, scheduled for release in 2009. We at MLC are excited to announce that RDA expert, Chris Oliver of McGill University, …Read more »

Online registration is now open for MLC’s January-June 2008 workshops. Check out our line-up of 50 sessions at: https://members.mlcnet.org/workshops/ We have something for everyone, including workshops on Flickr, YouTube, RSS, cataloging, reference, copyright, licensing, Second Life, podcasting, and more. Plus — new this February 26! — “Tune In! Media and Technology for Youth Services.” Register …Read more »

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 »