The MNLINK Marketing committee has prepared information for distribution to patrons and staff which you can download, print, and cut as needed.
MNLINK News
Minitex recently hosted three events related to the transition of MNLINK to the WorldCat Discovery interface for end-user requesting. Participants learned about the OCLC Reclamation/Batchloading process, the importance of that process for the system to work properly.
The MNLINK Gateway Operations Committee met on Thursday, May 5 at the Hennepin County Brookdale Library. At the meeting, it was decided to discontinue use of the term “gateway” in connection with MNLINK. The interface is now officially named “MNLINK.”
The annual Minitex Public Library Node meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 24, 2016, at the Hennepin County Library, Brookdale.
The MNLINK Marketing Committee received over fifty responses to a recent survey on marketing materials and formats that libraries find useful in reaching patrons. Based on the feedback, they will be developing a strategy for promotion of the new MNLINK Gateway.
The MnLINK Marketing Committee conducted a survey to determine what the next MnLINK logo would be and the results are in!
Work is moving forward on the MnLINK Gateway’s replacement with WorldCat Discovery for end user searching and requesting. WorldCat Discovery allows for more relevant search results returned for users.
At Minitex, we love the staff in the libraries in our region that make our service as good as it is.
We continue to work toward an implementation of the OCLC WorldCat Discovery platform. To date, we have held five webinars for libraries interested in the OCLC Batchload/Reclamation offer available through the recently negotiated MnLINK contract. We are expecting to move to the new discovery platform by July 2016.
Staff from libraries who are interested in the reclamation offer for the MnLINK Gateway transition to OCLC WorldCat Discovery are strongly encouraged to attend a 60-minute OCLC webinar to learn mor
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