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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Congratulations MeLCat Libraries . . . it’s MeLCat’s 13</span><sup style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> birthday!</span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">MeLCat went live on January 10, 2005 when a West Bloomfield patron requested Alice Starmore’s “The Celtic collection: Twenty-five knitwear designs for men and women” from Bloomfield Township Public Library.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Since that day 13 years ago:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">over 430 libraries have joined<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">patrons have made over 11 million requests<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">the annual fill rate has reached 91.9%<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">None of that would be possible without the hard work of hundreds of library staff across the state. Everyone contributes.
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<p class="MsoNormal">We’ve seen items go between the far corners of the state . . . from Ironwood Carnegie Library to Monroe County Library System’s Luna Pier branch, from the Blissfield branch of Schultz-Holmes Memorial Library to Calumet Public School, from
Three Oaks Township Public Library to Bayliss Public Library, and from Pickford Community Library to Reading Community Library.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We expect to see the large public and academic libraries lending to the smaller libraries; they just have bigger collections. But a surprising amount of material has been lent by small K12 libraries to the largest public and academic libraries.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Everyone contributes. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The MCLS MeLCat staff thanks every one of you for making MeLCat the success that it is.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Happy birthday to us all.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Megan Dudek<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(800) 530-9019 ext 153<o:p></o:p></p>
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