Feb 5, 2021
The Minnesota Digital Library will be offering monthly open office hours starting Wednesday, February 17th for organizations that have questions about implementing standardized rights statements.
Minnesota Digital Library News
Jan 29, 2021
Greta Bahnemann (Minitex) and Jason Roy (University of Minnesota Libraries) are two of the authors of the new OCLC Research report on the CONTENTdm Linked Data Pilot project’s findings. The report outlines “the benefits of working in a linked data environment, the potential to develop a shared data model, and the challenges facing efforts to transform metadata into linked data.”
Jan 26, 2021
As of January 26th, the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) is retiring the name "Minnesota Reflections" to describe the digital collection. All things MDL, including the collection, will be available through mndigital.org.
Nov 17, 2020
The Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) is offering rights statements implementation training virtually on Tuesday, December 8th from 10:00 am-12:00 pm. Join us for this free and open event to learn more about how to apply standardized rights statements to digital items in your collection.
Nov 17, 2020
The Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) is now on Instagram! Follow us @mndiglibrary for all things Minnesota history. We'll share some of the great photographs, maps, documents and more contributed to MDL by cultural heritage organizations across the state of Minnesota.
Sep 22, 2020
The Minnesota Digital Library is pleased to announce that we are accepting project applications for Phase 17.
Jul 1, 2020
Working on drafting a re-opening plan for your museum or cultural heritage organization? Have questions about what the plan should address? Please join us Monday, July 13th from 1:00-2:00 pm for a roundtable discussion on re-opening plans for museums and similar organizations.
May 8, 2020
We are offering a webinar version of our rights statements implementation training on Wednesday, May 20th from 1:00-3:00 pm.
Mar 23, 2020
Join Minitex staff for two new Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) webinars to learn more about the MDL Primary Source Sets and how to get involved as a guest author. Please join us for one or both of these sessions on April 17 and April 24.
Mar 20, 2020
On Friday, March 13th, we held a training event at Minitex for colleagues interested in learning about standardized rights statements and how to apply them. A small but engaged group joined us and together we reviewed the statements from rightsstatements.org and worked through examples from Minnesota Reflections and the University of Minnesota's collections. Our participants found that applying rights statements is often easier than you think!
Historical content from Minnesota's cultural heritage organizations, all in one place