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!
Digital Initiatives & Metadata News
Submit a proposal for Carleton College's free Day of Digital Humanities conference, to be held on May 31, 2024.
The SAA course, Arrangement and Description: Fundamentals, is coming to Minneapolis April 18-19, hosted by the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Register by March 18 to receive the early-bird registration rate!
Do you work with born-digital materials or are you curious to learn more about how others work with them? Register and join us for an in-person Bit Curator Forum satellite event at the University of Minnesota to meet with like-minded folks. Our FREE local programming will occur on day 2 of the Forum, March 20, at Andersen Library on the west bank of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.
While many of the traditional resources found in libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage organizations--books, photographs, objects--can survive for years with no intervention, digital content is much more fragile. Managing it requires ongoing care and preservation activities to ensure continued access far into the future. Join Carol Kussmann (University of Minnesota Libraries) and Sara Ring (Minitex) as they present this 3-part virtual course in April.
This hour-long webinar, scheduled for Thursday, January 25, is an introduction to cataloging designed for novices, library workers who know the very basics about cataloging and want an update about the state of cataloging today.
Have you heard that CatExpress and Connexion Browser are retiring soon? OCLC is focusing their attention on WorldShare Record Manager. Join Elissah Becknell (Minitex) and Elizabeth Tuckwood (Minnesota State Law Library) as they talk about adopting this bibliographic utility into their cataloging practice and point out important features and cool discoveries along the way.
The 2023 Minitex Technical Services Symposium was held at the Minnesota History Center on Monday, October 30. This year's theme was "Creating a Sustainable Future in Technical Services," and featured two keynote speakers and eight breakout sessions. For those who could not join us in person, recordings are now available after completing a short request form. Read on to view statistics and comments from the event.
The 23 Linked Data Things project team is delighted to announce the completion of our free, self-paced online learning project, with the publication of Thing 23: Reflections on the Future of Linked Data. This lesson shares our thoughts on the future of linked data in libraries and archives, and highlights some exciting new projects. We'd like to thank everyone who has participated and encourage you to keep sharing the project with colleagues.
Registration for the Minitex Conversation: Ebooks in the Library will be closing soon. We are partnering with Sonia Krinke (Century College) and Chelsea Couillard-Smith (Hennepin County Library) for this conversation about eBooks in the Library. These collection development librarians will share their knowledge and experience with eBooks in library collections. You can join us by registering for this event.
Education and support for staff who build, manage, and preserve digital and physical collections