Best Storytime Practices a webinar series with Jenifer Strauss continues:Full Body Storytime: Moving and Grooving with Stories, Songs, Rhythms and Rhymes Tuesday, December 19, 2017, 2pm EST Description: Movement is a child’s first language! Combine movement with rhythm and you have the foundation for literacy skills like listening, speaking, reading and writing. In support of Read More
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ABCMouse is FREE for All Public Libraries
ABCmouse offers an expert-designed supplementary curriculum for preschool through 2nd grade. Learn more about ABCmouse and sign up for your free library account here. Be sure to watch the two-minute video of parents and librarians talking about their experiences using ABCmouse. Some reasons why thousands of librarians and patrons around the country love ABCmouse:Completely FREE for Read More
Market research and community data for entrepreneurs
Nov 29, 3:30 pm EasternHelp entrepreneurs and small businesses in your community by empowering them with market and demographic research far beyond anything available on the web. Please join us on November 29 at 3:30pm Eastern for a 30-minute webinar focused on market and community research resources available in MeL.Utilizing the MeL research databases allows Read More
Library Services & Technology Act. Five-Year Plan for Michigan
by Riley, Randy, and; Reish, Karren. Library of Michigan. Lansing, 2017.http://www.michigan.gov/documents/libraryofmichigan/2017-2022_Five-Year_Plan_for_Michigan_603501_7.pdf Read More
Free Online Training for November 2017
November brings 75 free library-relevant webinars (and one virtual conference!) from a wide variety of organizations. This month includes a session on how to manage your collections and how to communicate with your community partners, or you’re interested in finding new resources to meet your community’s changing need. These training opportunities are compiled and shared Read More
Library of Michigan Webinars
Upcoming LM Webinars: These webinars are made possible by grant funds from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) administered by the State of Michigan through the Library of Michigan.Every Child Ready to Read in Michigan 2 year recap! with Sue McCleaf Nespeca on Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 2:00 PMTeen Clubs: on Read More
Free MeL webinar – Michigan history with MeL
Help your genealogists, students, researchers, and history buffs by connecting them with best sources for Michigan history. Join us on October 25 at 3:30pm Eastern for a 30-minute webinar focused on Michigan history resources available through MeL. Learn about tools within MeL Databases which can help your genealogists, students, researchers, and community. Registration is free Read More
2017 Annual Appeal Workshop
Mark Morrow from the Breton Group will conduct a workshop on letter writing campaign for raising funds for the library. Workshop leaders will work with each library to prepare the necessary letters. Participants will leave the workshop with a letter that can be used to fund raise. This is a pilot project. Once you have Read More
AWE Learning’s Early Literacy Station Offer
Multi-State Group Purchase Special AWE Learning is excited to partner with The Library Network to offer exclusive reduced pricing to help foster early literacy and school readiness skills. AWE Learning’s Early Literacy Station™ and After School Edge™ provide an extremely engaging environment with interactive content, reliable and low maintenance technology, and an easy to navigate administration system. All offers must be received by close of business December 15th, 2017 Read More
Overdrive History Page coming October 2, 2017
Dear Library Partner,We are excited to announce that a History page will be added to your OverDrive site the week of October 2nd. This page automatically displays titles a user has borrowed (beginning the day the feature is live), and users have the option to manually add titles previously read (through OverDrive or other sources). Read More