LM Dispatch Newsletter

Policies on library surveillance cameras, low-tech ways to raise funds and provide a legacy opportunity for your community, a tweens bookclub, Ready to Read Michigan 2019.

Two items in the tech corner: library security cameras and Security Information and Event Management System Alien Vault, a Library of Things, Michigan Legislative Biography database now available, library science collection from the LM.

New suite of MeL databases, NASA @ My Library, Braille Storywalks, Tech Corner, Introducing Liz Breed, new MeL Coordinator and Carol Dawe, new director of the Lakeland Library Cooperative

Announcing the 2018 LSTA grantees, Millennials on library boards, Clarkston Independence Township Library gets a coding grant, Part I about Kalamazoo Public Library's experience building a staff Intranet.

We introduce a new feature column: Tech Corner; Hart Area Public Library discusses registering migrant community members for seasonal library cards; and inviting animals into the library for programs as well as policies around emotional support animals.

Introducing Tim Gleisner, new head of Special Collections. Introducing Joe Polasek, new E-Rate Coordinator at the Department of Education. New software for grants management. Ukelele lending program and more!

Learn about how your library can benefit from the statewide membership in ALA's United for Libraries, read about the dates of the MeL server move, continuing education stipends, the upcoming Every Child Ready to Read program and partnership stories from libraries and organizations around the state.

Make the Library of Michigan a part of your new school year, submit those summer reading statistics, hear from an exchange librarian about her month in South Africa, learn about how Friends and Trustees in Michigan will soon have the resources of United for Libraries available to them, a call for presentations for Rural Libraries Conference 2016 and more.

Read about the new CE Scholarship program, the new contract for core MeL databases set to go into effect on Oct. 1, an independent summer reading program from the Traverse Area District Library, the LM newspaper collection and more!

Hear from State Librarian Randy Riley about National Library Legislative Day in Washington, D.C., celebration stories from the Detroit Public Library and the East Lansing Public Library, a shout-out in the area of community outreach to the Capital Area District Library, information about becoming a district library, and more.

Hear from State Librarian Randy Riley about Night for Notables at the Library of Michigan, the selection of this year's Michigan Reads! title Do Unto Otters, a success story from the Chelsea District Library, Beginning Workshop registration information and more.

Hear from State Librarian Randy Riley about the MeL core resource RFP process, the Notable Books author tour, advocacy news from Denise Hooks, president of the co-op directors association, a millage success story from the Redford Township District Library, and more.