Photos from the September 21 program led by Deberah England have been posted to MLC’s Flickr account. See the new set here.

Last Friday, 85 folks from MLC member libraries and staff gathered at Lansing Community College’s West Campus to hear about community-building activities in libraries. Chrystie Hill got the day off with an enthusiastic talk about the work libraries are doing to build a greater sense of community. Her thesis is that libraries are not just …Read more »

MHSLA, the Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association is having their annual conference in Bay City at the Doubletree Hotel, from September 26-28. I had the pleasure of working at the MLC table on Thursday. And enjoyed meeting with many of our MLC members. Well, while enjoying my wonderful taco bar lunch we were treated to …Read more »

Yesterday, the Michigan in Pictures blog featured a Flint photo from The Making of Modern Michigan collection. It is wonderful to see that folks are using the MMM collection. Yay! The featured photo is from Kettering University Library’s Scharchburg Archive. If you haven’t visited the Michigan in Pictures blog yet, you are in for a …Read more »

The Michigan Supreme Court has denied Bloomfield Hills attorney George Goldstone’s request for a rehearing of his case against the Bloomfield Township Public Library. See the Michigan Supreme Court News page.

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.