Save the date for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference and the Minnesota Digital Library Annual Meeting, to be held jointly on May 6–7, 2025. Consider submitting a proposal for the conference!
Professional Development News
The North American Virtual Reference Online Conference is gearing up for another conference. It will be three half days of online sessions, February 25-27, 2025. The theme for this conference is, "Applying the Trends of Tomorrow, Today," featuring a keynote presentation by Dr. Sandra Hirsh. A call for proposals to follow in November.
Prairielands Library Exchange, with the help of the Plum Creek Library System's Elizabeth Hoffman and the Arrowhead Library System's Mollie Stanford, is offering a statewide virtual vendor webinar to introduce library staff to vendors of languages other than English. All of the vendors were chosen because they offer materials in the languages spoken in Minnesota.
Data Analysis with Pinpoint and Considerations for your Audience is the fourth of six installments in Minitex's AI in Libraries Lunch and Learn series. Registration for this October 8 session is due October 7.
Join the MLA Instruction Round Table on October 8 for an hour-long opportunity to connect around instruction related to the research process and source evaluation. Registration is free.
Minitex is excited to offer official NACO Training with Mark K. Ehlert this spring. This training is a refresher for catalogers in the Minnesota NACO Funnel, and open to any cataloger proficient with copy cataloging in a bibliographic utility.
OpenRefine software can help you clean up messy data. Register for this free online workshop through the University of Minnesota's Software Carpentry workshop series.
Communication is a key component to cultivating stakeholder relationships, but may vary depending on the stakeholder. What we share with a director will be different information from what we share with patrons or city officials. We will talk about who your stakeholders are and how to build a relationship with them.
An afternoon of virtual presentations and panels from Minnesota librarians working on open or no-cost resource issues.
Minitex Outreach & Instruction staff are here to remind you that we offer training on the eLibrary Minnesota resources for school and library staff in Minnesota.
Strengthening the knowledge, skills, and efficiency of staff in libraries throughout the Minitex region