“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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]