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The Michigan Library Consortium is pleased to announce that we have recently added three new MeL Database trainers:
Elaine Erickson
Director
Ironwood Carnegie Library
Ironwood (western UP)
Kevin McDonough
Reference and Electronic Services Librarian
Northern Michigan University
Marquette (central UP)
Karen Becknell
retired from Lamphere Schools
residing in Farmington Hills (Detroit metro area)
Each of these new trainers is enthusiastic and skilled, and each will bring unique experiences to our training program and give us better geographic coverage.
Welcome aboard to all!
MLC provides free training for the MeL databases under contract to the Library of Michigan. For information on scheduling free MeL Database training for your library staff, contact MLC.
June 5th, 2008
MeL is pleased to announce that Gale has entered into an agreement to offer 41 journals from Nature Publishing Group, including their flagship publication, Nature, through Academic OneFile. These journals, which will carry a 12 month embargo and have an extensive backfile, will be made available in full-text with images over the next few weeks. Click here for more information about Nature Publishing Group.
Here are the titles that will be added to the Gale databases by the end
of May:
Bone Marrow Transplantation
Cancer Gene Therapy
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Gene Therapy
Genes and Immunity
International Journal of Impotence Research
International Journal of Obesity
Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology
Journal of Human Hypertension
Journal of Perinatology
Lab Animal
Leukemia
Molecular Psychiatry
Nature
Nature Biotechnology
Nature Cell Biology
Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine
Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology & Metabolism
Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology
Nature Clinical Practice Neurology
Nature Clinical Practice Oncology
Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology
Nature Clinical Practice Urology
Nature Genetics
Nature Immunology
Nature Medicine
Nature Methods
Nature Neuroscience
Nature Protocols
Nature Reviews Cancer
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
Nature Reviews Genetics
Nature Reviews Immunology
Nature Reviews Microbiology
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
Oncogene and Oncogene Reviews
Prostate Cancer
The Parmacogenomics Journal
May 8th, 2008
All MeL accounts for NoveList now have a link from each record to MeLCat. Users can look up a book in NoveList, then click on the MeLCat link to find out which MeLCat library owns it.
In addition, any library that wants to display a link to its own online catalog can contact the MeL databases support staff at:
meldatabaseshelp@mlcnet.org
May 6th, 2008
How does the public distinguish fact from fallacy? How can we help people deal with the age of information overload and misinformation. Why do we need to get students and faculty and the public using MeL?
This is an article about information literacy in today’s world. It’s well worth reading and well worth sharing, so please feel free to forward to as many folks as you’d like to!
May 1st, 2008
These are just a few comments from recent classes taught by the MeL Databases trainers:
It was great!
Great chance to be exposed to these resources, opens up a lot of possibilities.
Lots of tips regarding how to do specific things!
WOW - so useful! Great presentation, easy to follow, allows for self-education.
Great overview — this introduced me to many new features (and I consider myself a regular user).
So much available - I learned a lot.
Great exposure for our staff!
And the BEST kind of reaction — “I went right back to my library the next day and could use a database I learned about to help my patrons!”
For information on scheduling a free class for your staff, contact Suzanne Robinson at MLC.
February 27th, 2008
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.
February 20th, 2008
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, February 19, 2008. In addition to multiple break-out sessions on MeLCat, MeL Databases, and MeL Delivery, this year’s MeL Users Day line-up includes a special Resource Sharing Forum in the afternoon. This is an unstructured open forum for MeLCat users where the presenters will facilitate a discussion of a variety of issues raised by those in attendance. Topics that may be covered include loan periods, work flows, packaging, and anything else that strikes your fancy! There will be an opportunity to ask questions and get input from others who are experienced in MeLCat policies and procedures, including staff members from other MeLCat libraries and MeLCat training/implementation staff.
February 5th, 2008
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! For more information, please go to our MeL class description page.
January 24th, 2008
Tight Budget? Need to offer your staff quality professional development? Is MeL being used to its fullest potential to serve your patrons?
If you want your staff to be able to better utilize the tremendous resources found in the MeL Databases, we have FREE training available for you.
You need eight library staff members. You need a lab with a computer connected to the Internet for each participant. You need a projector for the trainer’s computer. That’s it.
For more detailed information and class descriptions, please read the information on this page:
http://www.mlcnet.org/cms/sitem.cfm/workshops__conferences/mel_workshops_/
Contact Suzanne Robinson (robinson@mlcnet.org) for more information.
January 14th, 2008
We’ve been hearing from a lot of folks in Michigan libraryland who read about Louise Bugg’s retirement in the December News@MLC that was posted yesterday (and also the longer news item from MLC’s News & Announcements page). Louise has touched a lot of lives in Michigan libraries over the past four decades! 
Tomorrow is Louise’s last day working in the office at MLC. I’m not sure how MeLCat, or MLC, will get along without her - we’re all going to miss her and we wish her well in her retirement. Thanks Louise!
November 29th, 2007
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