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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All—I’ve had some questions recently about what will be available come October 1<sup>st</sup> from LearningExpress, so thought I would send this out to hopefully clarify:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">LearningExpress LLC is the parent company and now part of EBSCO; they have 3 different products:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">LearningExpress Library – which we
<b>will</b> continue to offer via MeL</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Job & Career Accelerator – which we are
<b>not </b>continuing</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Workforce Skills for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century – which we are
<b>not</b> continuing</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">In our current version of LearningExpress Library, it includes the Computer Skills Center; that however, will be discontinued come 10/1 as the company decided
<b>not</b> to include it in LearningExpress Library in their RFP bid placing it instead in Job & Career Accelerator and the Workforce Skills product. You may recently have received an email or communication from EBSCO about LearningExpress products. That
memo would be referencing the Job & Career Accelerator and the Workforce Skills products.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hope this helps, but please let me know if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Deb</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#7030A0">Deb Biggs Thomas, MA AMLS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Michigan eLibrary & Outreach Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Library of Michigan/Michigan Dept. of Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">702 W. Kalamazoo St.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Lansing, MI 48909<br>
Phone: 517-373-4466<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#7030A0">Visit MeL at:
<a href="http://mel.org/"><span style="color:#7030A0">http://mel.org</span></a> and on Facebook at:
<a href="http://facebook.com/mel.org"><span style="color:blue">http://facebook.com/mel.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;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-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">isit
<a href="http://brightside.cedam.info/"><span style="color:blue">http://brightside.cedam.info/</span></a> and watch the 21<sup>st</sup> Century Libraries episode.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#7030A0"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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