Jan 13, 2021
A little snow doesn't mean you can't put on your boots and go for a walk. Jessica Manner explains why it helps to brave the cold and keep moving during this Minnesota winter.
Resource Sharing & Delivery News
Dec 18, 2020
Staff have been working on-site since the summer months. Philip Sites gives an update for how it's been both for RPA (Referral Processing Area) staff and those doing on-campus retrieval and scanning.
Nov 19, 2020
Beginning Monday, November 30, items leaving the Minitex office will no longer be held for three days before delivery. We will continue to mark all tubs with the date that they were packed, allowing individual libraries to make their own decisions about how long to quarantine these materials before handling.
Oct 8, 2020
Minitex ranks second as a resource sharing lender on the OCLC system for 2020.
Sep 15, 2020
We are currently experiencing slower turnaround times due to Covid-19 impacts and are appealing to lenders to extend due dates.
Aug 13, 2020
Recordings of sessions from the July 2020 IDS Conference are available online.
Aug 6, 2020
Several Minitex libraries, including the University of Minnesota Twin Cities will resume processing requests for loans during the week of August 10, 2020.
Jul 28, 2020
The Minitex Delivery and Resource Sharing Units will be hosting a statewide conversation on the state of Minitex Delivery and Resource Sharing on Wednesday, Aug 5 at 11 AM. Minitex staff will discuss the process of restarting the statewide delivery service and some of the challenges we’ve faced in the process. We will also share an update on the status of MNLINK and referrals, as well as an approximate timeline for filling requests from the University of Minnesota collections. The rest of the meeting will be Q&A.
Jul 23, 2020
Scanning of articles and chapters from University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus library collections will resume on July 27, 2020.
Jul 15, 2020
The Minitex delivery network will be available for direct interlibrary loan requests on Monday, July 20.
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