Registration for the Minitex Conversation: Metadata Practices for Diversity in Collection Management, will be closing soon.
Professional Development News
The Minnesota Theological Library Association is hosting a workshop to be led on May 10 by Dr. Rajeev Bukralia. Dr. Bukralia serves on the faculty of the Department of Computer Information Science at Minnesota State University, Mankato. The RSVP deadline is March 22.
Minitex Connect 2024 will be held May 14 at Hennepin Technical College in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. The theme is "Resource Sharing and the New MNLINK." This year's keynote address will be given by Index Data President and Co-Founder Sebastian Hammer. The cost to attend is $40, and registration closes May 6.
The organizers of the Lake Superior Libraries Symposium request presentation proposals for 60-minute breakout sessions. Panel presentations are particularly encouraged. Presenters will receive discounted registration. Proposals are due Friday, March 22.
Mark your calendars for the upcoming 28th EQS Symposium scheduled for May 30, 2024, hosted at the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Stay tuned as we unveil further information, such as registration details and the conference agenda. Additionally, the EQS Committee invites proposals for 45-minute conference presentations for this year's symposium.
Registration ends very soon for the Minitex/Minnesota Digital Library-sponsored virtual class Basics of AV Preservation. The class will be presented by Alyssa Magnone from the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) on March 5th, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. If you have audiovisual materials in your collection such as cassettes, VHS, or reel-to-reel film this is for you!
Sometimes projects fail or take an unexpected turn. It happens, and more often than we want to admit. What were some of your lessons learned from projects that didn’t go as planned? Come ready to share successful strategies to help bring the project to close.
What do you struggle with the most as a project manager? Come ready to share your experiences and lessons learned.
Registration for the Minitex Conversation: Project Management in Collection Development, will be closing soon. We are partnering with Nicole Olila (Quatrefoil Library) and Carla Pfahl (Minitex) for this conversation about Project Management in Collection Development.
In this special edition of the Minitex Conversation Collection Development series, we are collaborating with folks from the Technical Services Section (TSS) of the Minnesota Library Association. We will talk about diversity audits with two teams of librarians: Naomi Skulan and Peter Bremer from University of Minnesota Morris, and Christie Kess and Christian Koegel from Dakota County Library.
Strengthening the knowledge, skills, and efficiency of staff in libraries throughout the Minitex region