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Minitex is happy to announce that Ebooks Minnesota just gained 350+ titles around equity, diversity, and inclusion. Last fall, students in St. Catherine University's Master of Library and Information Science Program, Library Materials for Children class, performed a diversity audit of Ebooks Minnesota. As a result of this audit, the Ebooks Minnesota Collection Task Force recently selected diverse titles for inclusion into the collection from publishers including ABDO, Capstone, Rosarium, Dreamspinner, and Flux.

It's National Library Week and what better way to celebrate librarians than by sharing this infographic created by Capstone.

While many of the traditional resources found in libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions--books, photographs, objects--can survive for years with no intervention, digital content is much more fragile. Managing it requires ongoing care and preservation activities to ensure continued access far into the future. Join Carol Kussmann (University of Minnesota Libraries) and Sara Ring (Minitex) as they present this two-part virtual course between April 27th - May 11th.

Britannica is offering free trials to libraries in the Minitex region in April 2021. Please contact Anne Hatinen at hatin004@umn.edu for more details.

If we want to win the battle against misinformation, we have to be willing to put in time and effort educating ourselves and those around us. We can do this without reinventing the wheel.