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Insights from Executive Director Scott Garrison – March 2025

This month, I’ll feature video of a recent conversation I had with Rima Zalghout, librarian at the Russell J. Abaid Library and Resource Center at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, MI. I encourage you to visit the Museum and its library and learn more about the Arab world and Arab Americans’ experiences. The …Read more »


Get up to 50% off through March with these special offers

      Is your library looking to add new resources this year, particularly in genealogy, newspapers (historical or recent, national or state collections), or considering a workforce development platform for your patrons? Now through March 31, you can take advantage of the following steep discounts:  Genealogy: 40-50% off. If you have an active subscription to …Read more »


Find out how the OverDrive for Michigan & Indiana Academics (OMIA) group will benefit your library on April 17

If you are part of the academic library community in Michigan or Indiana and you’d like to learn more about a consortial approach to providing fiction and nonfiction eBook and audiobook titles to your patrons via OverDrive, we encourage you to attend the Consortium Connect webinar hosted by OverDrive on April 17 at 1 p.m. …Read more »


Product updates spotlight: Bloomsbury Digital Resources offers one-time purchase

With budget planning and spending on the horizon, Bloomsbury arts and humanities resources are available for one-time purchase to maximize spending! With 690+ collections for perpetual access purchasing, including streaming video collections, and collections containing audio content, images, e-books, encyclopedias, major reference works, monographs and more. One-time purchases provide the opportunity to ensure uninterrupted access …Read more »


Connect with each other at our next Virtual Dialogue

Our popular Virtual Dialogue series continues in 2025! We’ll bring together specific groups of library staff from across our two-state region every other month to give space and time for those with similar challenges and opportunities to meet for dialogue on topics of interest to them. Our next Virtual Dialogue will be on Thursday, March …Read more »


We welcome four new members to the MCLS community

         MCLS is pleased to welcome the following new libraries and organizations to our member community: Liberty Fund, Inc., Indiana Oakland City-Columbia Township Public Library, Indiana Odon Winkelpleck Public Library, Indiana Princeton Public Library, Indiana Are you interested in becoming a member of MCLS? You can view our member benefits and access …Read more »


Use this discount registration code for the 2025 Computers in Libraries Conference

In partnership with our friends at Amigos Library Services, we are pleased to share the registration discount code below for the Computers in Libraries Conference in Arlington, VA on March 25-27, 2025.  Use priority code: 25AMI You can register for the conference here. If you have any questions, please contact Grace Boykin of Amigos Library …Read more »