Professional Development News

The 23 Linked Data Things project organizers are pleased to announce that Things 13-15 are now published and available on the website. Thing 13 explores linked data cataloging workflows from OCLC Research's Project Passage. Thing 14 looks at the Wikimedia Commons project, and Thing 15 delves into the ethics of linked data. 

This course is designed for student workers, volunteers, and full-time staff who need to find and evaluate MARC records to add to a library catalog. No prerequisites are required!

Participants in the Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) contribute MARC authority records for titles, agents such as persons and corporate bodies, and places to the LC/NACO Authority File. Members also assist the Library of Congress with the File’s maintenance by reporting duplicate records and performing other tasks. Within NACO, groups of libraries can pool their resources to achieve these same goals without the overhead of yearly quotas. These groups are called funnels; in fact, about a dozen libraries collaborate in one such funnel here in Minnesota. The Library of Congress is looking to host an online NACO training workshop for invited guests in February 2023. Specific dates are not yet set. Minnesota NACO Funnel members are welcome to participate, as are libraries interested in joining the Funnel.

Registration closes October 12th for the MN+ Digital Collections Conference and MDL Annual Meeting. This hybrid event will be held Monday, October 17th (in-person) and Tuesday, October 18th (virtual).

We are pleased to announce the keynotes for the October 17-18 MN+ Digital Collections Conference and MDL Annual Meeting. Dr. Kirsten Delegard from the project Mapping Prejudice will open the program on October 17th (in-person day). John Garrison Marks from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) will keynote the virtual day of the conference on October 18th, discussing AASLH's new Reframing History initiative and toolkit. We hope you can join us for these exciting and informative presentations!