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Jayne Blodgett, Assistant Director and Technical Services Coordinator, and Peter Bremer, Reference Coordinator, of Briggs Library at the University of Minnesota Morris had their article, “Rolling the DICE in an Academic Library,” recently published in American Libraries. The librarians at UMM facilitate a Game Night @ Briggs Library one Friday night a month. This outreach activity has afforded the library staff an opportunity to engage with students and make collaborative connections with student organizations and units across campus. UMM librarians decided to focus on table top games and to create a welcoming space for students to relax, take a break from their studies, and enjoy the library from a different perspective. Read and learn more about how Briggs Library staff makes their Game Nights a success!
Kristen Mastel, Outreach & Instruction Librarian, of Magrath Library at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities had her article, “Extending Our Reach: Surveying, Analyzing, and Planning Outreach to Extension Staff,” recently published in the Journal of Agricultural & Food Information. Expanding on the literature addressing library outreach to Extension staff, Mastel adapted a survey to send to Extension program staff in Minnesota to investigate their information-seeking strategies, challenges, and sources used as well as the effectiveness of current University of Minnesota Libraries’ services to Extension staff. Read and learn more about Mastel’s findings and conclusion!
Valerie Horton, Director of Minitex, and Greg Pronevitz, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Library System, have written and co-edited Library Consortia: Models for Collaboration and Sustainability which was recently published by the American Library Association. The book highlights the history, current trends, services, and management practices and approaches of library consortia today. Included are sixteen case studies addressing online instruction, ebook projects, interconsortial licensing, interstate delivery, shared physical depository, and digital initiatives to name a few. Authors of the case studies come from a broad range of experience and institutions across the U.S. in which you will also find included staff from Minnesota libraries and programs: Kathleen Drozd, Assistant Director of Minitex; Jeanine Gatzke, Technical Services Librarian and Associate Systems Administrator at Concordia University (St. Paul); Jennifer Hootman, Reference Outreach & Instruction Librarian at Minitex; Belinda Lawrence, Public Services Librarian at St. Catherine University; Matt Lee, Reference Outreach & Instruction Librarian at Minitex; and Mary Parker, Associate Director of Minitex. Learn more about the book’s content and purpose at the ALA Store.
