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For MN: Reaching Students and Patrons with Gale Digital Resources

Recorded webinars and more available from Gale

by Beth Staats
Looking for new digital content for your classroom? Want to reach patrons who can’t attend programming with digital resources? The digital content in Gale resources from eLibrary Minnesota can easily be linked to learning management systems, websites, e-newsletters and more. Tune into this session to spark ideas on incorporating Gale In Context: Middle School and Gale In Context: High School into learning for all.
The Great Gatsby

AP English titles available for classroom use in Ebooks MN

by Beth Staats
Do you have an entire class, or classes, reading English literature classics like Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet, Catch-22, or something more recent like The Bonesetter's Daughter?  Ebooks Minnesota's licensing model allows for unlimited simultaneous use meaning multiple users can read the same ebook at the same time.
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Edina High School's media center is thriving

by Zach Miller
Thanks to the efforts of media specialist Sara Swenson and her colleagues, Edina High School students gravitate to their media center, a space that is welcoming and full of just what they need.
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Brookings, South Dakota bound: Come see us at SDLA!

by Sara Ring, Ann Kaste
Attending the South Dakota Library Association Annual Conference? Here are a few places you can see and visit with Minitex staff members Ann Kaste (Electronic Resources Librarian), Sara Ring (Continuing Education Librarian), and Director Maggie Snow.
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Resource Sharing Trends Survey

by Gerri Moeller
Have your resource sharing numbers and patterns changed in the last few years? Are you wondering what other libraries are experiencing? So are we! Melissa Eighmy Brown from the University of Minnesota and Gerri Moeller from Minitex have developed a short survey to help us learn more about recent resource sharing trends.
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Level Up! Professional development opportunities for Fall 2022

by Kay Kirscht, Zach Miller
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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MNLINK sharing Ebooks Minnesota again

by Nick Banitt
The Ebooks Minnesota content has been added to the OCLC collection manager this week, and made available as a collection for users of MNLINK.
AskMN The Librarian Is In

AskMN FY22 Report now available

by Carla Pfahl
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.