The Level Up! training calendar presents professional development opportunities from across the Minnesota library community, all in one place. The calendar is funded by Minnesota's Multicounty Multitype Library Systems.
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The Ebooks Minnesota content has been added to the OCLC collection manager this week, and made available as a collection for users of MNLINK.
While overall usage slowed down from the height of the pandemic it was still a very busy year for questions. The five year trends for overall usage and academic usage continue to increase and public library usage remains quite strong.
Minitex Outreach & Instruction staff are looking forward to being out and about at several conferences exhibiting and presenting on ELM and Ebooks Minnesota this fall. Be sure to stop by the eLibrary Minnesota or Minitex booth to pick up promotional materials and say hello.
We still have some open seats for the ALA Advocacy Academy class, taking place virtually in two parts on September 20th and September 27th. This is the first in a Minitex series of library advocacy-related webinars, presented by Megan Cusick (Deputy Director for State Advocacy, ALA) and Shawnda Hines (Deputy Director of Communications, ALA).
Films on Demand has a new collection available called Nursing: Current Concepts and Practices.
Metronet Learnabouts are back! Join us as we learn about various Google Tools.
The September/October newsletter from Sentry Custom Security features the kiosk helping a war-torn nation reconnect with literature, and a chance to win a $5,000 gift certificate.
Banned Books Week is crucial to raising awareness about real, and all too common, threats to intellectual freedom. Endorsed by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, Banned Books Week is an annual celebration of the freedom to read.
Registration is open until October 12th for the MN+ Digital Collections Conference and MDL Annual Meeting. This hybrid event will be held Monday, October 17th (in-person) and Tuesday, October 18th (virtual).