“Doing nothing is the worst thing you can do.” -Joseph Janes On June 5 Joseph Janes will present as keynote speaker on the future of libraries for MCLS’s series finale on eBooks & Libraries. Janes is MLIS Program Chair from the University of Washington Information School and author of the forthcoming book Library 2020: Today’s [...]
LANSING, Michigan (April 29, 2013)-The Midwest Collaborative for Library Service is pleased to announce our annual meeting will be held on October 4, 2013 at the Marten House Hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana. MCLS encourages members to reserve October 4 for a day of sharing ideas as we lead our staff, patrons and communities into the [...]
LANSING, Michigan (April 2, 2013)-The Midwest Collaborative for Library Services invites its academic library members in Michigan and Indiana to apply for participation in a pilot project whose purpose is to evaluate the feasibility of MCLS assisting libraries in marketing of library services to their patrons. Up to 12 libraries will be chosen to receive [...]
In his March 28, 2013 Huffington Post article Libraries to Become Community Publishing Portals Smashwords founder Mark Coker explains his theory and reasoning why libraries are poised to become the catalyst for a self publishing revolution. Also in the article he references his March 21, symposium presentation for MCLS at Lansing Community College.
Are big publishers dinosaurs, dying off as the effects from the impact of the big digital asteroid spread out farther and farther? Or are they zombies, already the walking dead, shuffling along but not really living entities any longer? Or are they on the cusp of discovering a new business model that marries the best [...]
MCLS is pleased to welcome Sean Cwiek as our new MeL Systems Specialist. Sean hails from Plymouth Michigan, where he worked as a page and then reference assistant at Plymouth District Library. In 2010, he graduated from the University of Michigan-Dearborn with a double major in Economics and Psychology. Sean has worked as a small [...]
LANSING, Michigan (March 11, 2013) – The Midwest Collaborative for Library Services is pleased to announce a pilot program to investigate the feasibility of a direct marketing service for its members. In conjunction with the library technology company Third Iron, this project provides access to and marketing support for BrowZine, a new tablet-based service. Funds [...]
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A new, next-generation Collection Evaluation tool, designed to support your library’s collection evaluation needs in the context of cooperative information, will soon replace OCLC’s existing WorldCat Collection Analysis (WCA) service. The new Collection Evaluation tool will deliver the extended functionality required by libraries that are increasingly focused on optimizing spending and reducing the physical collection [...]
MCLS is happy to announce David Votta as the newest member of the MCLS team, serving in the role of Community Engagement Librarian. David comes to MCLS by way of the Capital Area District Libraries Special Collections and the Detroit Institute of Arts Research Library/Archives. He earned his MLIS and Certificate of Archival Administration from [...]