The Michigan Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee is offering a workshop on Friday, April 27, Street Legal for Patron Record Privacy. To register, use MLA’s online workshop form. Lawyers at the workshop will cover library privacy laws and court cases and will discuss the policies, procedures, and staff training needed to comply with those laws, …Read more »

Judy Hauser, information media consultant for Oakland Schools in Waterford, Michigan, has an article published in the February 2007 issue of Computers in Libraries. Click here to connect to the MeL Databases link to Judy’s cover story article, “Media specialists can learn Web 2.0 tools to make school more cool; using Web 2.0 tools can …Read more »

There is a great blog post on Creating Passionate Users titled “Face-to-face trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Videos.” Kathy Sierra asks – why are we still going to conferences when we now have social networking technology to allow us to meet online? She writes, “The point is, face-to-face still matters. And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking …Read more »

Today’s cover story in the Lansing State Journal features various Michigan ventures in Second Life, including MLC’s presence in Second Life. The main focus of the story, Bev and David Lang of LTS Video, are old friends of Michigan libraries.  They produced the video, “Establishing a District Library,” for the Library of Michigan in 1990 …Read more »

Anne K. Beaubien, Director and Cooperative Access Services and Grants Officer, University Library, University of Michigan, is the 2007 Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Librarian Award recipient.  The award recognizes and honors a librarian for outstanding professional achievement, leadership and contributions to ILL and document delivery. For the complete story, see ALA Press Release. …Read more »

Last week, Michael Stephens posted Ten Tech Trends for Librarians 2007 on his blog, Tame the Web.  His advice: Learn to Learn Adapt to Change Scan the Horizon His post states, “As we carry out our essential mission of service, stewardship and access, I really want folks in libraries to be able to watch the …Read more »

Tomorrow, March 1st, is World Book Day. To celebrate World Book Day, the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, is launching an online display revealing the origins of Kenneth Grahame’s masterpiece of children’s literature, The Wind in the Willows.  The online display is an expanded version of an exhibition mounted for one day only on March …Read more »

The American Library Association announced in a press release this week that they now have space in Linden Labs’ 3D Virtual Reality, Second Life. ALA will have one half of ALA/Arts Island, which will be utilized as a new method for disseminating ALA news and information. It will also be used for reaching out to …Read more »

Photos from the February 15 program have been posted to MLC’s Flickr account.

The MLC Digital Libraries User Group met today here at MLC. Representatives from the 16 participating libraries meet twice a year to discuss collection development, training, promotions, tech issues, and the latest and greatest products available. Today much of the discussion centered on the addition of downloadable videos to the collecton. To paraphrase Kelli Perkins …Read more »