Minitex is hiring a part-time (50%) Library Assistant 2 for the Referral Processing Area of our Resource Sharing Services.
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The University of Minnesota Libraries is hiring a Administrative Associate 1. This is a 2 year temporary position that plays a key role in managing general operations and providing administrative and collections support for the Upper Midwest Literary Archives, the Performing Arts Archives, the Givens Collection of African American Literature, and Northwest Architectural Archives with support of other units as needed and appropriate.
Check out this list of library professional development opportunities taking place in August that are available through Level Up!
Registration closes August 4th for the Minnesota Digital Library's online symposium "Enhancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) in Digital Collections", which takes place Thursday, August 5th from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm.
Join us as we go through the free, self-paced Media Landscapes: 23 Things curriculum this summer! You can start at the beginning, or hop on any time. This week, we are on Thing 6: Detecting Deepfakes.
MNLINK's end-user searching and requesting platform, OCLC's WorldCat Discovery, will be updated on Wednesday, August 4.
It's time for a mystery! The fifth featured book in our statewide book club, One Book | One Minnesota, is the award-winning "Murder on the Red River" by Marcie Rendon. The book is available to all Minnesota readers via Ebooks Minnesota at ebooksmn.org.
ERMN 2022 will be held on January 26-27, 2022.
In honor of our 50th Anniversary, I am highlighting a few recordings from the Minitex oral history collection in the Minnesota Digital Library. This is the second article in an occasional series and features excerpts from some of our more recent interviewees: Keith Ewing (formerly of St. Cloud State University) and John Butler (formerly of University of Minnesota Libraries). Both were heavily involved in the development of the Minnesota Digital Library.
Lizzy Baus has accepted a position as Metadata Librarian at Macalester College. We wish her all the best in her new endeavor and look forward to collaborating with her in the future.