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 »

MLC is thrilled to announce that one of our board members, Gigi Lincoln, has been honored with the New York Times’ prestigious “I Love My Librarian 2008” Award.  Gigi is the Library Media Specialist at Lakeview High School in Battle Creek, Michigan, and is also a MeL Trainer.  Congratulations Gigi! Gigi was cited for her …Read more »

MLC Evergreen staff will demonstrate the Michigan Evergreen open-source ILS at the MLA Conference this week, Booth #7 in the MLA Exhibits. Booth demos are scheduled for: Wednesday, 2pm-5pm Thursday, 7:30am-12noon Also, MLC and GRPL Evergreen staff will present a program at MLA on Thursday, 1:30pm-2:45pm, in Room Prairies V. If you’re interested in learning …Read more »

Photos from the 2008 Annual Meeting have been posted to MLC’s Flickr account. To see the new set, click here.

At MLC’s annual meeting on October 3, I talked about the changes that our OCLC members will experience with the new service model that OCLC announced a couple weeks ago. If you work in a library that uses any OCLC service, the new service model will have an impact on you, and it will affect …Read more »

Congratulations to Director Nancy Studebaker and her staff at the Niles District Library (NDL)!  MLC is pleased to announce that NDL went live on Michigan Evergreen yesterday, joining other pilot libraries, Branch District Library and Grand Rapids Public Library. The final four Michigan Evergreen pilot libraries will go live in November: Traverse Area District Library …Read more »

The Grand Rapids Public Library went live on MIchigan Evergreen yesterday – see MLC’s News page and the Michigan Evergreen blog for details.  There were the usual first-day hiccups, but today all seems to be running smoothly.  Niles District Library is scheduled to go live on Michigan Evergreen next week. This is a pretty exciting …Read more »

In preparation for MLC’s special program “Open Source, Open Libraries,” we polled the lists a couple months ago asking for information on open source software currently in use in Michigan libraries.  The list of the responses is now compiled on the Open Source page on the Michigan Libraries Wiki at: http://mlcnet.org/wiki/index.php/Open_Source Please feel free to …Read more »

As an extension of its digitization project begun in 2006 with the New York Times and the Washington Post, Google announced yesterday that a number of publishers will give Google access to their historical newspaper content. Notably, ProQuest will give Google access to content from among the 10,000+ newspaper titles in its vault. The microfilms …Read more »

Daniel Chudnov, Information Technology Specialist in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress, will be the keynote speaker at MLC’s 2008 Annual Meeting, “Open Source, Open Libraries,” on Friday, October 3, 2008, in Lansing.  To register online for the program, go to MLC’s Workshop Registration page. We’re excited about Mr. Chudnov keynoting …Read more »