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MeLCat

• MeLCat Best Practices Tutorial
This PowerPoint presentation is a tutorial on best cataloging practices for MeLCat records so libraries can improve their record quality, reduce duplicates and help users find and get what they want. Available to MeLCat participating libraries only. You'll need your MeL Help Password.

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• MeLCat Policies and Procedures
Policies, procedures, lending and borrowing rules, how to join MeLCat, MeLCat committee information and news about expanding MyMeL.

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MeL Best of the Web

• Sign Me Up to Be a MeL Best of the Web Selector!

• Michigan eLibrary Best of the Web Collection Development Policy

• MeL Best of the Web: Emphasizing Michigan Materials
The MeL Best of the Web collection includes nearly 25,000 links to authoritative, comprehensive and useful information chosen to serve the needs and interests of Michigan residents.

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MeL Databases

• MeL Databases: More than 40 Subscription Databases
MeL offers a core set of over 40 subscription databases for Michigan residents. The $4.3 million worth of electonic resources includes millions of articles from over 45,000 indexed magazines and newspapers, close to 9,000 of which are full text. The ebook collection includes 15,000 full-text non-fiction titles.

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• Serials Solutions A-Z List
This is an alphabetical list of full-text periodicals and newspapers included in MeL databases.

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MeL Multisearch

• MeL Multisearch
MeL Multisearch uses a product called MetaFind from Innovative Interfaces to simultaneously search MeLCat, MeL Best of the Web and MeL Databases and display the results.

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• Technical Support

MeL Michigana

• MeL Michigana
Digitized historical resources from around Michigan including photographs of people, places and objects; diaries of Civil War soldiers; unique local histories and much more.

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• Digitization for Preservation and Access (DPA) Grant Information
Press Releases, FAQ, Grant Application

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• Digitization Resources from the Michigan Library Consortium
OCLC Digital and Preservation Resources, Creating Metadata for Digitized Objects, Copyright and Digitization

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