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Professional Development News
This year's conference, the 13th edition, will take place on June 6 at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet, Minnesota. Proposals are due by Friday, March 21.
Join Minitex and MLA at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, March 17, for a free webinar on how libraries can support immigrants and new Americans, featuring staff from three Minnesota libraries. This session is sponsored by the Minnesota Library Association.
The BLC Leadership Academy for Support Staff is a three-day leadership retreat to be held from July 8-11, 2025 at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg Campus in St. Petersburg, Florida. BLASS is an intensive, high-engagement experience that goes beyond traditional leadership training.
This webinar series explores Library of Congress Subject Headings from the perspective of catalogers engaged in this work. Learn more about radical and critical cataloging work happening in Minnesota, past and present projects. Get inspired to join a project or improve your local subject authority practice.
Registration for the 2025 Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference and MDL Annual Meeting on May 6-7 is now available via our event page.
Minitex will offer an introductory Digital Project Skills series on digitizing collections, metadata for digital collections, and preserving digital collections. The series is designed for staff of any library, archive, museum, or other organization planning or already working on digital projects. No previous knowledge is assumed.
The program is set for ERMN 2025, and registration for the conference on March 5 is officially open.
This program is provided by the Medical Library Association (MLA) and offers training in providing health information services to consumers. The program begins February 18.
This free one-hour event, presented by the Minnesota Library Data Group, will take place at 1:00 p.m. on February 11. Registration is via Zoom.

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