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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#323E4F">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">When it comes to finding biographical resources, it’s hard to beat the MeL database
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<span style="color:#044A91;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#044A91;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Biography and Genealogy Master Index</span></a>. This
<i>index only</i> resource contains entries found in over 1,000 volumes of biographical references – both current and retrospective – for nearly 5 million people! A basic search can be done by name only while an advanced search allows limiters of birth and
death years or ranges and title/prefix/suffix, even, if a portrait is available. Sources indexed include publications from Facts on File, Oxford University Press, Marquis Who’s Who (many series), National Geographic Society, Ward’s, Congressional Directory,
and Contemporary Series by Gale, (Authors, Literary Criticism, etc.). Looking for that hard to find individual and what their claim to fame is?
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<span style="color:#044A91;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#044A91;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Biography and Genealogy Master Index</span></a> may be the key to unlocking their secrets. <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Michigan residents
or Michigan library access only.</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#333F50;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">MeL Minutes are brought to you by the Library of Michigan. Want more information on MeL? Stay tuned
for next week’s MeL Minute available on many Michigan library listservs, email us at
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";color:#1F497D">Eunice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D">Eunice C. Borrelli,
</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#17365D">Michigan eLibrary Internet Librarian
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#17365D">Library of Michigan/Michigan Dept. of Education</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D">,
</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#17365D">702 W. Kalamazoo St., Lansing, MI 48909</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#7030A0">Visit MeL at:
</span><a href="http://mel.org/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#7030A0">http://mel.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#7030A0"> and on Facebook at:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D;background:white">The Library of Michigan is pleased to share a new video series highlighting Michigan libraries and how they are making a difference in their
communities. To experience Michigan libraries in a new light, v</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D">isit
</span><a href="http://brightside.cedam.info/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:blue">http://brightside.cedam.info/</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1F497D"> and watch the 21<sup>st</sup>
Century Libraries episode.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#8064A2">Each April, Michigan celebrates the Month of the Young Child.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#8064A2">Go to
</span></i></b><a href="http://www.miaeyc.org"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue">www.miaeyc.org</span></i></b></a><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#8064A2"> to learn
more. <a name="OLE_LINK3"></a><a name="OLE_LINK4"></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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