Strategic Partnerships The MLS is a state-supported collaborative that prioritizes cooperation and sharing among libraries, presenting a strong opening for partnerships with vendor programs, grant initiatives, and consortial licensing opportunities to expand purchasing power and access for member institutions.

Learning & Training Recent hires and course launches signal a growing emphasis on professional development. This creates potential for selling learning management system enhancements, content subscriptions, curriculum development services, or instructor-led training partnerships.

Diversity & Inclusion The 2025 collaboration with CultureAlly to encourage underrepresented groups into librarianship points to a focus on equity initiatives. This presents opportunities for targeted outreach programs, inclusive recruitment tools, and grant-funded access programs that require vendor support.

Community Engagement MLS hosts annual meetings and webinars, indicating an active event program and user community. There is potential for sponsorship, webinar platforms, analytics, and virtual event services to enhance member engagement and knowledge sharing.

Digital & Cataloging Introduction of Basic Library Techniques in Cataloging demonstrates ongoing digitization and cataloging capability needs. This suggests upsell opportunities in library tech tooling, metadata management, cataloging modules, and training on discovery platforms.