Take Your Daughter to Work Day April 24
MLC staff enjoyed “Take Your Daughter to Work Day” today. Here are some photos of the volunteer daughters who showed up at MLC to help out!
1 comment April 24th, 2008
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Porn, Policies and Public Relations
The Michigan Library Association (MLA) Intellectual Freedom Committee and the MLA Marketing and PR Roundtable are offering a Spring workshop, “Porn, Policies and Public Relations,” in two locations:
Friday, April 11, 2008, Farmington Community Library
Friday, April 18, 2008, University Center, Gaylord
Click on the links above for descriptions. To register, see MLA’s Registration web page.
The agenda includes:
8:00 - 8:50 a.m. Registration
8:50 - 9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks & Introduction of Speakers
9:00 -11:30 a.m. “Patron Behavior, Library Policies and Internet Pornography: What You Need to Knowâ€
-What are patrons’ constitutional rights?
-What policies and procedures do libraries need to have in place?
Anne M. Seurynck, Attorney, Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, P.C.
11:30 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch accompanied by presentation from Jack Lessenberry, Professor of Journalism, Wayne State University
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. “Managing Your Message: Working with the Media to Turn a Potential Crisis into an Opportunity to Tell Your Storyâ€
-Learn media relations and crisis communications techniques
-Practice talking to the media
Dave Waymire, Martin Waymire Advocacy Communications (Gaylord)
Mike Nowlin Martin Waymire Advocacy Communications (Farmington)
3:00 - 3:15 Afternoon Break
3:15 - 4:00 Panel presentation of Library Professionals to Answer Questions
Lothar Spang, Wayne State University
Susan Gilmore, Michigan Association for Media In Education
Metta Lansdale, Royal Oak Public Library
4:00 - 4:30 Questions, Answers, and Wrap-up
1 comment April 3rd, 2008
Elaine Ross joins MLC Evergreen Staff
The Michigan Library Consortium is pleased to announce that Elaine Ross joined the MLC staff on March 17 as our new ILS Training & Support Librarian. Welcome Elaine!
Elaine brings a wealth of experience to her new position at MLC. Before joining us at MLC, she worked for Gale/Cengage (previously IAC) for 13 years as a Customer Systems Support Engineer, Manager of RFP/Bids Administration, and Senior MARC Record Specialist. Prior to that she designed and built CAVALIR Online, a statewide union catalog for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Elaine’s experience also includes training and support for VTLS, Inc., onsite in the U.S. and Europe and remotely for countries in the Middle East and the Pacific Rim, faculty teaching positions at universities in North Carolina and Virginia, and seven years at Richmond Public Library in Virginia.
In her new position as ILS Training & Support Librarian, Elaine will join Evette Atkin on the Michigan Evergreen Team. Elaine and Evette will work with Grand Rapids Public Library to migrate the pilot libraries to Evergreen, an open-source integrated library system. After the initial pilot project is completed, Michigan Evergreen will be opened up to other libraries who wish to join the shared catalog.
For information on the Michigan Evergreen project, please feel free to contact Evette Atkin, Elaine Ross, or Ruth Dukelow at MLC. See also the Michigan Evergreen blog.
1 comment March 19th, 2008
LJ Honors Three Michigan Librarians
There are three Michigan librarians on the 2008 Library Journal Movers & Shakers list!
Evette Atkin from Michigan Library Consortium
“Multitalented”
Steven Bowers from DALNET
“Expanding OPACs”
Marcia Mardis from Wayne State University
“Push Technology”
Congratulations all!
1 comment March 18th, 2008
Free Press features MLC in Second Life article
See today’s Detroit Free Press (March 4, 2008) for the article, “Michiganders make a living, meet and study in ‘Second Life’,†featuring MLC’s Evette Atkin and MLC’s Second Life building. [Photo by Dave Trumpie of Trumpie Photography, Lansing.]
1 comment March 4th, 2008
Resource Sharing Innovation Awards
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 Sharing Initiative has created an award to encourage libraries and librarians to make changes in how they do resource sharing and improve service to users.
Up to three winning submissions will be awarded a cash prize of $1,000 each. Recipients will be announced at the ALA RUSA STARS Rethinking Resource Sharing ALA Preconference on June 27, 2008 in Anaheim, CA, and also will be invited to present at the IFLA satellite preconference, Rethinking Access to Information: Evolving Perspectives on Information Content Delivery in Bostonin August 2008. Funding for the 2008 Innovation Awards was provided by the Alliance of Library Service Networks .
To be considered for the award, please submit a description of the user-centric service change you have made that has improved resource sharing in your library, consortium or state. Full details for submission can be found at www.rethinkingresourcesharing.org.
The deadline for applications/nominations is May 15, 2008 (post-mark or date of e-mail).
Submissions are sent to the chair of the Rethinking Resource Sharing Innovation Awards Committee:
Anne K Beaubien
Director, Cooperative Access Services Grants Officer
Universityof MichiganLibrary
920 North University
106 Hatcher Graduate Library
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205
(734) 936-2322 fax (734) 647-2050
beaubien@umich.edu
1 comment February 14th, 2008
UofM Announces 1 Millionth Digitized Book
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!
1 comment February 4th, 2008
Chelsea District Library Named Best Small Library in America
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 Dexter, Lima, Lyndon, and Sylvan townships, was chosen this year for its team-oriented approach that brings in a high number of volunteers and fosters ongoing innovation. Judges also noted the impressive use of its renovated historic facility; creative outreach programs that include book and movie discussions and monthly themed luncheons for seniors; kids and teen oriented programs; and aggressive adoption of technology to both improve the patron experience and increase public access to computers and the Internet.”
Click here to read the complete article in Library Journal.
1 comment January 28th, 2008
Board Presents Liu Certificate of Appreciation
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.
1 comment January 22nd, 2008
Job posting
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/
1 comment January 22nd, 2008