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The University of Minnesota seeks Music Library Coordinator with a base salary of $51,147. This position requires five (5) years of relevant library or research experience. College education can be substituted for library or research experience on a year for year basis up to three (3) years, plus two years of relevant library experience.

Minitex is excited to announce that we have selected ReShare, hosted by Index Data, to replace the VDX system that supports MNLINK. MNLINK’s new platform is scheduled to go live by early summer, 2024. We extend our thanks to the members of the MNLINK Transition Task Force, whose work made this decision possible.

The University of Minnesota seeks a Recruiting Administrative Assistant with a base pay of $20.00/hour. This position requires a High School Diploma/GED and four (4) years of related office experience. Training/education may be substituted for some of the years of experience.

The 23 Linked Data Things project organizers are pleased to announce that Things 16-19 are now published and available on the website. With help from new guest authors and returning authors, you can explore linked data from the public services side, pitfalls to be aware of to adoption, a linked data in archives project, and even set up your own Wikibase (the same platform that runs Wikidata)!

The ITEM Summer meeting was a celebration of legislative success, with per-pupil school library media funding and funding to the multicounty, multitype library systems to create the foundations for increased licensed library media specialists across Minnesota. The group also looked to the future to establish goals for the next round of legislative requests, and to continue to support strong and vibrant school libraries and School Library Media Specialists across Minnesota.