MeL favicon Most of our MeL Minutes feature eResources and content designed to help you help your patrons and community (important work!) We’ve shifted our focus a bit today, and this post is for YOU! We’re highlighting MeL’s Personal and Professional eResources. You can use them to enhance your knowledge and skills on-the-job or as a life-long learner. They're just one more tool you can add to your library utility belt.

Today, more than ever, library staff are stepping up and performing new tasks that include learning new skills. The landscape of your work environment is shifting and adapting to our COVID-19 world. Many of you work both on-site and from home. You now communicate with each other and your patrons using online platforms like Facebook, Zoom, Slack, and Google Meet. Embracing technology and learning how to use new software is happening daily. Your duties may now include other library tasks that you’ve never performed. In a nutshell, the job that you signed up for may have changed.

Dig into MeL’s eResources page, Professional Learning (for Librarians and Educators) for resources to help you navigate our new normal. Here are some searches to get you started:

· Book Clubs and Book Discussion Groups

· Cataloging and Classification

· Children’s Programming

· Collection Development and Management

· Digital Preservation

· Fundraising for Public Libraries - eBooks

· Information Literacy

· Library Marketing and Promotion

· Library Marketing and Promotion - eBooks

· Public Library and School Collaboration

· Readers’ Advisory

· Readers’ Advisory - eBooks

· Reference Interview

· Reference Services - eBooks

· Self-Publishing

· Storytime

· Summer Reading

· Teen Programming - eBooks

· Teen Services and Programming

· Weeding Library Collections - eBooks

· Weeding Public Library Collections

If you have a MeL eResource question or issue, please don't hesitate to contact meldatabaseshelp@mcls.org.

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MeL eResources are available to Michigan residents or for Michigan library or school access only.

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Sonya Schryer Norris

Library Consultant

Library of Michigan

Michigan Department of Education

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