We are happy and proud to announce that Ruth has been selected to be an ALA Copyright Scholar. The ALA Office for Information Technology Policy has chosen the Copyright Scholars for this year, and Ruth is one of eight new scholars. For the next two years, Ruth will devote a portion of her time to …Read more »

Today we announced the formal launch of the Michigan Libraries Wiki (click here for the press release). MLC staff and others have been working on the Michigan Libraries Wiki since December 2006, and the wiki is finally ready to go public. Yay! We had some great presenters last year at MLC’s Library Rebooted program on …Read more »

For the past few months, MLC staff and others have been working on putting together content for the Michigan Libraries Wiki – see http://mlcnet.org/wiki. We’re excited to announce that the wiki is finally “ready for prime time” and will launch formally next week. Our goal is to provide a useful library wiki for Michigan library …Read more »

The Grantsmanship Center is offering their Grantsmanship Training Program in Royal Oak, Michigan on October 15-19, 2007.  For details and registration, click here.

Karen Schneider has written a pretty good overview of open source software and the reasons why it’s gaining in popularity among librarians. She follows up her TechSource column with another on her own blog.

The New York Times has an interesting article today about eBooks and the new “Kindle” reader coming from Amazon. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/technology/06amazon.html

College students always start at Google when they have an assignment to do, right? They ignore all those journals and databases colleges and universities spend so much money for, right? That seems to be the conventional wisdom these days anyway. But First Monday has a paper in its current edition that disputes that bit of …Read more »

For several years, INCOLSA, the Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority, has run a shared integrated library system for about 30 libraries. This week they announced that they are migrating from SirsiDynix to Koha ZOOM, an open-source ILS. I’ve started a conversation with INCOLSA’s executive director about their decision and the benefits they expect to see …Read more »

On and off over the past several years, I have fielded questions about whether MLC was interested in running a shared integrated library system. Up to now, we have declined to offer such a service. Lately the questions have become more numerous and with the added twist of whether we would consider running Evergreen, the …Read more »

A Most Bookish Borough Queens Library http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/opinion/17fri4.html?em&ex=1187582400&en=380a4faecf3c3b14&ei=5070