Based on its awesome cover, I would never have guessed what Return of the Giant Sock Monsters from Outer Space is about. Sci-fi movie? Guess again!
Resource Sharing & Delivery News
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Beginning July 1, 2016, the resource sharing agreement between Minitex and South Dakota libraries will be changed. Minitex will retain a resource sharing relationship with the 12 academic institutions in South Dakota.
Walter Library was one of over twenty buildings designed by architect Clarence H. Johnston (1859-1936) for the University of Minnesota.
The 25th Annual Minitex ILL Conference was held on Tuesday, May 10, 2016, at the Saint Paul Campus of the University of Minnesota. There were around 180 attendees from the Minitex region. The keynote, "What's Next for Libraries" was delivered by Lee Rainie, Director of Internet, Science and Technology at Pew Research Center.
The University Library Twin Cities has moved about 62,000 volumes from Wilson Library and the Health Sciences Library to off-site storage. These titles have been identified as "low use."
Working with University Library staff, Minitex now has an efficient way to retrieve these materials
Beginning June 1st Minitex shifted four locations from overnight delivery to On-Demand service. This is a service provided by Alliance Courier for Minitex locations that have fewer items in their daily delivery.
At the Minitex Interlibrary Loan Conference on May 10th, Lee Rainie from the Pew Research Center touched on a statistic that caught my interest. Across the nation, requests for physical items in public and academic libraries have had a steady decrease over the past 4 years. Rainie also noted that those numbers are beginning to level out.
Jennie Shaw will be presenting a poster on a digital exhibit of the John Philip Borger Comic Book Collection at the Minnesota eLearning Summit on July 27.
OCLC will discontinue its support and testing of Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 9 and 10 with its WorldCat Discovery and WorldShare applications beginning July 1, 2016.
The rich resources of Minnesota libraries, available to patrons and libraries in every corner of Minnesota