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AtoZDatabases for Job Seekers and Mailing Lists
by Laura Warren-Gross 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

[A picture containing text, clipart, sign Description automatically generated]When it is time to look for a new job, AtoZDatabases<http://widgets.ebscohost.com/prod/customerspecific/mel/auth.php?database=at…>, an eResource from the Michigan eLibrary<https://mel.org/welcome>, provides tools that help job seekers learn about the structure of a business, brush up on resume and interview skills, and find job listings within geographic parameters set by the user. People looking to start or grow a business will also find tools to help with their marketing plan. Find a Business or Executive In the Find a Business or Executive tab, the search options allow job seekers to research a business. The results include a description of the business, as well as information about its location, the revenue it generates, and the number of people it employs. Find a Job The Find a Job tab allows the user to generate a list of jobs within a geographic range. The advanced search tool allows for narrowing the job search by using specific key words and phrases, as well as specifying a salary range and more detailed geographic range options. Career Resources Job seekers will find the Career Resources tab particularly useful as it provides information about how to prepare for a job search including eight key questions that one might ask when looking for a job to be sure to find the right fit. Learners can also discover how to understand their own strengths and weaknesses and summarize their skill set in order to prepare for a new career opportunity. In addition, the Career Resources tab includes information about how to apply for a job, including tips on how to write a resume and how to connect with hiring managers. This tab also includes information about preparing for an interview and how to follow up after an interview. Mailing Lists, Sales Leads, Emails Although AtoZDatabases is a powerful tool for finding a job, it includes other features that are useful to starting or growing a business as well. The Mailing Lists, Sales Leads, Emails tab allows a user to generate a list of potential customers. By clicking Get Started next to 30 Million Businesses & Executives, a search can be performed using specific parameters such as a business type and business location. The results can be downloaded and used to generate a mailing list of potential business customers. Using the 240 Million Residents search will generate similar mailing lists of potential residential customers within a geographic parameter. If you are having any issues linking to items on this page, please explore the MeL eResource Access Page.<https://www.mcls.org/mel/mel-databases/help/remote-access/> Brought to you by Laura Warren-Gross from the MeL Team. Supporting Michigan Libraries by Putting You First. Want more information on MeL?  Stay tuned for the next MeL Minute available on many Michigan library listservs, visit http://mel.org<http://mel.org/>, or sign up for the MeL Minute and other Library of Michigan e-mail lists via GovDelivery<https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/MILOM/subscriber/new>. We encourage you to share MeL Minutes with your colleagues and networks. MeL eResources are available to Michigan residents or for Michigan library or school access only. #IMLSGrant Laura Warren-Gross Engagement Specialist for Public Libraries Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS)

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Toshiba toner cartridges
by Joyce Becker 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

Hello, The Orion Township Public Library has extra Toshiba toner cartridges that are no longer needed, please let me know if you are interested in taking them (free of charge). * T-FC505U-M (Magenta) - Qty 2 * T-FC505U-K (Black) - Qty 2 * T-FC505U-Y (Yellow) - Qty 2 * T-FC505U-C (Cyan) - Qty 1 ~Joyce Joyce Becker Administrative Assistant 825 Joslyn Road Lake Orion, MI 48362 Phone: 248 693-3000 x431 jbecker(a)orionlibrary.org

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The Returns to Public Library Investment: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Paper
by Jim Flury 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

All, I am sharing the attached not because it makes for scintillating reading (it doesn't) but rather, due to the interesting source (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) as well as the conclusions of the authors of the paper, which are summarized in quotes (see page 28 of the attached paper) in the third paragraph below. Perhaps the best audience for this is the financial person on your board, and/or in your governing municipality. The second conclusion of the paper's authors would seem to have particular relevance, ie " Second, library capital investments cause students to perform better on standardized tests. In particular, we observe persistent improvement in reading test scores in the years after library capital spending." "We use an event study methodology to show that library capital spending has at least two effects. First, capital library investments cause patrons to use the library more. More residents visit the library, the stock of library materials increases, and more children attend library events. Second, library capital investments cause students to perform better on standardized tests. In particular, we observe persistent improvement in reading test scores in the years after library capital spending. These improvements in reading test scores coincide with increases in library use and are not driven by changing demographics in local communities. Our results highlight the importance of public libraries to children, even in an era with widespread access to the internet and smartphones. In the future, we hope to further investigate the many other ways that public libraries can affect local communities." Jim Jim Flury Technical Services Manager The Library Network 41365 Vincenti Court Novi, MI 48375 248-536-3100, ext 133 Fax 248-536-3098 jflury(a)tln.lib.mi.us

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Craft kit sources compiled
by Sanilac District Library 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Thank you so much to those who responded to my question about craft kit sources. Librarian are wonderful about sharing ideas. Our children's Librarian has moved on to bigger and better (I hope) things. I don't think we will fill the position right now. So I am starting to panic about summer activities for kids. A list of the responses so far is attached if anyone else is interested. Bev Beverly Dear, Director Sanilac District Library 7130 Main Street PO Box 525 Port Sanilac, MI 48469 Phone: 810.622.8623 FAX: 810.622.9041 Website: sanilacdistrictlibrary.lib.mi.us

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hp cartridge
by Joann Hedger 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

We have an HP 902XL black inkjet cartridge we no longer need. The expiration date is January 2022. Please let me know if you could use it. Thank you. Joann ***************************************************** Joann Hedger Administrative Assistant Bacon Memorial District Library 45 Vinewood Wyandotte MI 48192 734-246-8357 ex 220

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BIG Michigan Activity Pass News! May 1st
by Jim Flury 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Good Afternoon, I am very pleased to share this BIG Michigan Activity Pass news: Metroparks [ https://www.metroparks.com/ | https://www.metroparks.com/ ] has joined the MAP program! That's right, beginning this Saturday, May 1st the 13 Metroparks listed below will begin offering FREE admission (terms and conditions outlined below) to our MAP patrons! Please share this great news with your patrons! Speaking of terms and conditions, here is the MAP offer from Metroparks: "Good for one day of fun in this park! Allows one FREE daily vehicle pass. Can not be duplicated. Not redeemable for cash. The Michigan Activity Pass, and the Metroparks daily pass you will receive upon redemption, are not eligible to be used towards our Trade-up Program for annual passes." The 13 participating Metroparks are: Delhi Metropark [ https://www.metroparks.com/parks/delhi-metropark/ | https://www.metroparks.com/parks/delhi-metropark/ ] Dexter-Huron Metropark [ https://www.metroparks.com/parks/dexter-huron-metropark/ | https://www.metroparks.com/parks/dexter-huron-metropark/ ] Hudson Mills Metropark [ https://www.metroparks.com/parks/hudson-mills-metropark/ | https://www.metroparks.com/parks/hudson-mills-metropark/ ] Huron Meadows Metropark [ https://www.metroparks.com/parks/huron-meadows-metropark/ | https://www.metroparks.com/parks/huron-meadows-metropark/ ] Indian Springs Metropark [ https://www.metroparks.com/parks/indian-springs-metropark/ | https://www.metroparks.com/parks/indian-springs-metropark/ ] Kensington Metropark [ https://www.metroparks.com/parks/kensington-metropark/ | https://www.metroparks.com/parks/kensington-metropark/ ] Lake Erie Metropark [ https://www.metroparks.com/parks/lake-erie-metropark/ | https://www.metroparks.com/parks/lake-erie-metropark/ ] Lake St. Clair Metropark [ https://www.metroparks.com/parks/lake-st-clair-metroparks/ | https://www.metroparks.com/parks/lake-st-clair-metroparks/ ] Lower Huron Metropark [ https://www.metroparks.com/parks/lower-huron-metropark/ | https://www.metroparks.com/parks/lower-huron-metropark/ ] Oakwoods Metropark [ https://www.metroparks.com/parks/oakwoods-metropark/ | https://www.metroparks.com/parks/oakwoods-metropark/ ] Stony Creek Metropark [ https://www.metroparks.com/parks/stony-creek-metropark/ | https://www.metroparks.com/parks/stony-creek-metropark/ ] Willow Metropark [ https://www.metroparks.com/parks/willow-metropark/ | https://www.metroparks.com/parks/willow-metropark/ ] Wolcott Mill Metropark [ https://www.metroparks.com/parks/wolcott-mill-metropark/ | https://www.metroparks.com/parks/wolcott-mill-metropark/ ] Passes for each of the 13 Metroparks will be available at the Michigan Activity Pass site [ http://www.plymouthrockets.com/michiganactivitypass/ | http://www.plymouthrockets.com/michiganactivitypass/ ] beginning May 1st. Steve Bowers @ The Library Network and Tammy Turgeon @ Suburban Library Cooperative made the initial contacts with Metroparks and also did the heavy lifting. Thank you, Tammy and Steve! Thank you for your support and promotion of the Michigan Activity Pass program. Sincerely, Jim Flury Jim Flury Technical Services Manager The Library Network 41365 Vincenti Court Novi, MI 48375 248-536-3100, ext 133 Fax 248-536-3098 jflury(a)tln.lib.mi.us

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craft kits for kids source
by Sanilac District Library 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Does anyone out there in library land have a source recommendation for make it - take it craft kits for kids? Besides Oriental Trading. Looking for new ideas. Thanks so muchBev Beverly Dear, Director Sanilac District Library 7130 Main Street PO Box 525 Port Sanilac, MI 48469 Phone: 810.622.8623 FAX: 810.622.9041 Website: sanilacdistrictlibrary.lib.mi.us

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Sustainable Summer Reading Prizes
by Barbara Beaton 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Thanks to everyone who responded with ideas and curiosity about sustainable summer reading prizes! I’ve collected the responses below and highlighted key points to make this scannable. I think it’s great that you are looking to be more earth friendly with your prizes! Before Covid, we gave out donated coupons to local businesses each week of summer reading. Last year, because of Covid, we did drawings for “grand prizes,” with each of our four age groups (baby, child, teen, adult) having two grand prizes. This year we are doing something similar, but for baby, child, and teen, we are going to spread the love a bit more and buy multiple medium size prizes (gift cards, books, games, nice toys, etc.) so that we can draw more winners. Another idea to consider is prizes for the library itself. For example, you might choose four options of things that can be purchased for the library, and patrons get tickets to vote for what they want throughout, or at the end, of summer reading. Whatever item gets the most votes, gets purchased for the library; the options are really endless depending on what you already have, tools to add to your Library of Things, a board game collection to enjoy at the library, a 3D printer, a train table/play kitchen. I had also suggested using this model for choosing a children’s performer to visit in the fall. If you feel like you have to do frequent little prizes, I love things that are both fun but have a purpose, like unique erasers or crayons (fun sticky notes, binder clips, laptop decals for teens and adults?!), anything that can be “used up.” Books is probably an obvious suggestion 🙂, but when you said sustainable, I immediately thought gardening. Maybe some gardening kits? My son has several metal trowels he uses for various things (sand, mud, rocks), and a kit with a pot, seeds, and potting soil might be nice. Just a thought. Last year instead of buying cheap plastic doo-dads, whatchamacallits, and thingamajigs, we worked with a local toy store who gave us a pretty generous discount and bought prizes that people would actually want, then raffled them at the end. So instead of getting a prize for each step of summer reading, they earned a raffle ticket. It bums me out that not everyone will receive a prize, but that's life -- AND we were able to keep stuff out of landfills and put money back in the local economy. We will probably do something similar this year. We have been trying to move away from all the plastic waste with our prizes too. We have been giving out prizes like a free book from our Friends used bookstore, candy bars, drawstring backpacks, gift cards to local bookstores like Barnes & Noble, passes for local activities such as laser tag and roller skating, and the local business coupons you mentioned for things like frozen yogurt too. One option that I'm hoping we may implement in future is to also have a collective prize donation made on the library readers' behalf to a charity (a literacy charity would be good!). Depending on the total minutes/pages/books etc. that your whole base of readers completes, that counts towards a donation amount of your library's ability. An idea just popped into my head, and I wonder if library policies or rules would allow for it. Possibly readers could choose that their milestones of books or minutes read (however you tally them) could be turned into donations to a local animal shelter, food bank, books for the economically disadvantaged, or planting trees or gardens at the library or local park? I am thinking of how a walk-a-thon or read-a-thon raises funds, but it would not be for the readers to get their own pledges. Insted, the money budgeted for prizes would go toward the sustainable or more impactful project. If one or more charities or causes were designated, the readers could choose. I was a teen librarian for twelve years and I know the struggle to find useful items for prizes. The youth department often gave out bags of chips, fruit chews, or other snacks. I finally gave out candy bars and gum too, but these were always choices. For teens, they were not big prizes, but they were in combination with other small prizes and each time they completed a reader sheet that sheet became a raffle ticket for bigger prizes at the end of the program. The big prizes were usually gift cards and a number of other prizes. I hope this helps. I continue to think of trees and wonder how much a batch of seedlings like those one gets on Arbor Day and Earth Day, cost? I wonder if they are easy enough to keep alive to have them available for prizes. These Arbor Day Foundation seedlings<https://shop.arborday.org/tree-seedlings-in-bulk> are sold out, but if you like the idea, there are other options. What about tickets to local places - zoos, museums, public performances, etc? In college, I actually participated in a summer education program that gave out nature-friendly items that encouraged conservation, like book-themed birdhouses, seeds to plant a 'fairy tale window garden' and reusable water bottles with the logo of the challenge on them! For many years we have partnered with the local ice cream stand (for cone coupon), coffee shop (for cookie coupons), and pizza restaurant (personal pizza coupon). They have been very popular because they also become a family outing when kids read to earn the coupons. The pizza place gives us the pizza with no sharing of the cost, while the other two are subsidized through the library's grant to pay about .80 - $1.00 per coupons. It really works out quite nicely for all. The library prepares the coupons with business approval, and staff fill in the reader's name and then initial it to make it active. We, too, have done the local food coupons. Beyond that, well, a lego e-giftcard for one of the raffle grand prize choices (hands down the most popular choice), and that's plastic, too. But most people think of them differently from "made overseas trinkets." We are trying to do the same thing. Instead of weekly prizes, we give out a sign up prize (a sticker badge book for kids and a "Wreck this Journal" for teens) and a middle of the summer prize (a free book from the Friends of the Library bookstore and a raffle at the end for gift cards to local businesses. Additionally, last year, we rented an ice cream trolley/cart for our end of the year/last summer reading program. Any kid who participated got to choose an ice cream treat for free. We had 4 choices including one non-dairy. We also sold ice-cream to others (parents, grandparents, passers-by (we were stationed outside)) and made $300 for the Friends of the Library. We ran it for 3 days to allow families the chance to come by...I'm sure we had a couple families come twice, but we had plenty of ice cream with leftovers for staff. From Cathy Lancaster: We have some shared notes from our 2021 SRP workshop: https://bit.ly/MI_Tails_Tales, but we didn’t focus much on prizes. However, last year’s prize list might be helpful for you: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-foAl9KeotdiYXD26dA2KUE7hfUWivRTBRD_-Ec…. Other Sources: https://www.ecopromotionsonline.com/blog/02272017-1015/eco-friendly-promoti… https://earthfriendlytips.com/best-eco-friendly-gifts-for-kids/ Barbara Beaton Assistant Director/Reference Librarian Milan Public Library Milan, MI 48160 734-439-1240 www.milanlibrary.org<http://www.milanlibrary.org> she/her

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Drive Thru Window Results
by Casey Branch 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Hi All, Thank you to the libraries with drive thru windows that responded to my request. The response from the libraries is that most do not require call ahead or appointments to be made to pick up items at the drive thru window. Our library’s window is quite a distance (about 30 yards) from our holds room. We may decide to ask patrons to call ahead, so that we can stage their items near the window. Some libraries have a system that when the holds slip is printed it states whether the patron wants to pick up inside or at the window. We do not have this option at our library. Most libraries do not have a staff member staffing the window at all times. We will also not plan to have someone at the window at all times. We will have the staff member who is working near the window, be responsible for serving patrons when they drive up. Most libraries use their windows for holds pickups only. A few offer other services such as copying, faxing, library card renewal, library card requesting, paying of fines, etc. We are going to start out with hold pick ups only and decide from there. All libraries that responded do not allow patrons to request AND pick up from the drive thru window. This would take too much time. Some libraries have a shade to pull down when the window is closed. Those that added the shade later, were very happy to have had it as it has cut down on people stopping at the window when it was closed. Libraries also have their hours posted in the window. During the COVID shut down, many of the libraries with drive up windows opened up just for pick up at the window and this was very convenient. Thanks, Casey -- Casey Branch, Customer Service Supervisor Salem south Lyon District Library 9800 Pontiac Trail South Lyon, MI 48178 Phone: (248)437-6431 Fax: (248)437-6593 cbranch(a)ssldl.info http://www.ssldl.info

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Lightning and curbside
by Emily M Dumas 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Greetings! Forgive me if this topic has already been covered, but my search didn't bring anything up. I'm hoping to hear from libraries about how you handle lightning storms and curbside. We know we want to create a policy, much like sporting events, that would delay our curbside service if there's lightning in the forecast. However, we're struggling with the logistics. How do you get the word out to patrons and then how do you handle rescheduling? Also, if you have any procedural wording I'd really appreciate seeing that. Thanks so much! Emily [/var/folders/c4/pn04drv965q2qlqx52sjgnvdhktm0j/T/com.microsoft.Outlook/WebArchiveCopyPasteTempFiles/cidimage001.png(a)01D4C2D2.9B24D4F0]<https://troypl.org/> Emily Dumas | Library Director 510 W Big Beaver Troy, Michigan 48084 248.524.3544 [/var/folders/c4/pn04drv965q2qlqx52sjgnvdhktm0j/T/com.microsoft.Outlook/WebArchiveCopyPasteTempFiles/cidimage002.png(a)01D4C2D2.9B24D4F0]<https://www.facebook.com/troylib/> [/var/folders/c4/pn04drv965q2qlqx52sjgnvdhktm0j/T/com.microsoft.Outlook/WebArchiveCopyPasteTempFiles/cidimage003.png(a)01D4C2D2.9B24D4F0] <https://www.instagram.com/troylib/> [/var/folders/c4/pn04drv965q2qlqx52sjgnvdhktm0j/T/com.microsoft.Outlook/WebArchiveCopyPasteTempFiles/cidimage004.png(a)01D4C2D2.9B24D4F0] <https://twitter.com/troylib>

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