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The next installment of Minitex Conversations: Project Management is Wednesday, May 14, at 10 a.m. In this session, we will have a discussion about how you use AI to enhance your project work.
"Where We Come From" was chosen for the 13th iteration of Minnesota’s state-wide book club, One Book | One Minnesota. This title presents a picture-book collaboration in which four authors explore where they each come from, literally and metaphorically. Sun Yung Shin is one of four co-authors. Sun is an award-winning poet whose work has earned honors such as the Midland Authors Society Award for Poetry, the Minnesota Book Award, and the Asian American Literary Award, with additional recognition as a finalist for the PEN USA Literary Award and multiple Minnesota Book Awards.
Registration for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference and MDL Annual Meeting closes April 30th.
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In every Minnesota community, there's a library. And in every library, you will find workers dedicated to the betterment of their neighbor's lives. That's why the most important resource in a library is not its books, but the people who work there. Kate Dougan, already employed at a library, is pursuing her MLIS degree at St. Catherine University.
Plum Creek Regional Library System is headquartered in Worthington and serves libraries in a nine-county region of southwestern Minnesota. Their recently concluded "Love My Library" program yielded positive feedback from patrons, which was used to create the word cloud shown above.
This conversation is happening on April 22 at 2:00 p.m., and will explore the evolving relationship between libraries and campus bookstores. Join us to discuss challenges, opportunities, and strategies for collaboration, conflict, or coexistence. Registration is required.
The Minnesota Digital Library added three new standards and best practices guidelines to its website: Metadata Guidelines Version 8.0, Master Images Care and Maintenance, and Best Practices for Naming Electronic Records.
EBSCO now offers a Natural Language Search mode that uses LLMs to better parse and retain user intent in search.