Photos of the 2008 MeL Users Day at the Lansing Center have been posted to MLC’s Flickr account. Click here to view the new set.

Please see the following Awards announcement, posted on behalf of the Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Awards Committee: The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative was started to advocate for a complete rethink of the way libraries conduct resource sharing in the context of the global internet revolution. In order to showcase resource sharing innovation, the Rethinking Resource …Read more »

The Michigan Library Consortium (MLC) is hosting a seminar in Second Life on Tuesday, February 12, 4pm SL time (that’s 7pm EST – Michigan time). The seminar will focus on Evergreen ILS open-source software. Our speakers will be Don McMorris from Equinox and Tim Daniels from one of the Georgia libraries using Evergreen. The seminar …Read more »

What’s going on with MeLCat? Where do we stand with NCIP? What’s new with MeL Databases? Where is MeL headed? MeL Users Day 2008 provides answers to these questions and much, much more! For a detailed agenda and to register online, see: https://members.mlcnet.org/workshops/viewcourse.html?id=185 MeL Users Day will be held at the Lansing Center on Tuesday, …Read more »

The University of Michigan announced the digitization of the millionth book this weekend. Most of the million volumes are products of the Michigan Digitization Project, a partnership with Google to digitize the entire U-M collection. Congrats U of M Library! One million down and 6.5 million to go!

Congratulations to Joan Elmouchi and her staff! Library Journal has named Chelsea District Library (McKune Memorial) the “Best Small Library in America.” It’s great to see a Michigan library win this honor! The press release notes: “CDL, which serves over 14,000 residents of the Chelsea District, made up of the city of Chelsea, and the …Read more »

The class that gives your library staff an overview of all the changes to the MeL Databases will be ending March 31. The changes have been incorporated into all the other free classes. If you still want to schedule the three-hour What’s New 2007 overview, please contact Suzanne Robinson at MLC as soon as possible! …Read more »

At the MLC Board meeting on January 18, MLC Board Chair Pamela Grudzien presented a Certificate of Appreciation plaque to out-going Chair, Victor Liu, in recognition of his leadership work on the MLC Board.

MLC has posted a job opening for an ILS Training & Support Librarian to work on the Michigan Evergreen project. For links to the complete job description and application form, go to: http://mlcnet.org/cms/sitem.cfm/news__announcements/job_posting/

Check out the Library of Congress blog: Great story about  the launch of a brand-new pilot project with Flickr, the enormously popular photo-sharing site. More than 3,000 photos from two of the most popular collections are being made available on a new Flickr page, to include only images for which no copyright restrictions are known …Read more »