Suburban Library Cooperative

National Library Workers Day (NLWD) is a time for library staff, users, administrators, and Friends groups to recognize the valuable contributions of library workers. Suburban Library Cooperative extends a BIG thank you to the amazing staff at our member libraries, library workers across Michigan, and beyond.

Librarians, pages, clerks, support staff, IT staff, custodial teams, administrators, directors, Friends groups, and everyone in between are the people who make a difference in our communities every day.

Celebrate by visiting your library and thanking a library worker. 💙📚

Celebrate National Library Week! It’s a great time to stop by your library, help a friend sign up for a library card, attend an event, or explore digital resources online. This year’s theme, “Find Your Joy,” invites people of all backgrounds to discover what sparks joy at the library. Honorary Chair Mychal Threets champions this theme through his uplifting videos about library joy, mental health, and how the library is truly a place for everyone. He also serves as resident librarian for PBS Kids and new host of Reading Rainbow.

Today is also Right to Read Day. Read a challenged book, support your library, and learn about last year’s challenges to intellectual freedom in American Library Association's State of America’s Libraries Report: A Snapshot of 2025: https://bit.ly/3ORpvpE

Your account portal in your library’s online catalog has a fresh new look, plus a handy new feature!

You now have the option to link accounts to easily switch between multiple library cards. Parents/guardians can opt in to manage accounts for their dependents through one-way linking, while non-minor cardholders can choose two-way linking to manage each other’s accounts.

Say hi to our new Director, Kathy McKinney!
Kathy got her start in libraries at 17 as a page shelving books in 1999. Over the past 27 years, she’s held just about every library role and spent 23 of those years at SLC member libraries, most recently serving as Assistant Director of Mount Clemens Public Library. We’re so excited to have her on the team!

UPDATE: The Polaris upgrade is complete and the system is back online! 🎉

⚠️📚 Plan ahead for Thursday, Feb. 19. Some library services will be temporarily unavailable while we complete scheduled upgrades and bug fixes to Polaris, our library system software.

During this time, you may not be able to search the catalog, place holds, use the SLC app, or access services like Libby/OverDrive, Hoopla, Kanopy, Tutor.com, and some databases. We appreciate your patience and understanding.