Hi, Folks.

After some conversations with board members, I'm feeling the need for insight and guidance.  I have two only broadly-related questions:

1.  What does HeritageQuest (to which we currently have a subscription that costs money) offer that Family Search (which is free) does not?  Ease of use, bells and whistles, words of kind encouragement, a chance to win a pig?

2. What other services does your library offer that are popular or, in your estimation, valuable beyond usage statistics, that my library should have, too?

Here's what we offer now:
OverDrive (with all the pay per use stuff--Kanopy, Great Courses, etc) through a cooperative consortium
Consumer Reports directly through the cooperative
Mango Languages also through the cooperative
Craft and Hobby through the cooperative
Hoopla
NewsBank (Access World News and the Michigan virtual editions)
Wall Street Journal
New York Times Online
Heritage Quest
Freegal

What else do we need to make us the envy of all of you?  Besides humility.  And soft serve ice cream.

Thanks,
Bob


Bob Barringer, PhD
Director
The Schultz-Holmes District Library
407 S. Lane St.
Blissfield, MI 49228
517-486-2858
blissfieldlibrary.org
Facebook: @blisslibrary



From: Jim Flury via Michlib-l <michlib-l@liblists.org>
To: "all-tln"<all-tln@lists.tln.org>, "partnerscda"<partnerscda@lists.tln.org>, <michlib-l@liblists.org>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 08:05:10 -0400
Subject: [Michlib-l] Library Patron Privacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Report, May 2026

A general overview, followed by a summary for each state as well as the District of Columbia. MI is on page 31.


Jim

Jim Flury
Technical Services Manager
The Library Network
41365 Vincenti Court
Novi, MI 48375
248-536-3100, ext 133
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