MeL:Project
From Mlc
MeL is the Michigan eLibrary, an anywhere, anytime library for Michigan residents. MeL contains magazine, newspaper and journal articles, books, ebooks, online courses and evaluated Web sites. MeL can be used by any citizen of the state at no charge 24 hours/day.
MeL has grown from the combination of several statewide projects. The original projects were the Michigan Electronic Library, a collection of Internet resources selected by librarians (1992), and AccessMichigan, a project to provide more than 60 licensed commercial databases to Michigan's libraries (1997) free of charge. MeLCat, a statewide resource sharing project, was begun in 2005, and AccessMichigan was renamed MeL Databases.
MeL is a project of the Library of Michigan, an agency of the state government. The Library of Michigan contracts with MLC and partners with a number of Michigan organizations and institutions to provide MeL services.
This service is funded in part by the State of Michigan through the Library of Michigan. Additional project support comes from the Federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) via the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
