Registration is now open for #NAVROC, the North American Virtual Reference Online Conference 2021!
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The Tri-College University 2021 Library Workshop will be held virtually on Tuesday, February 9, and Wednesday, February 10, 2021 at 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. each day. The registration form and previous save-the-dates listed these dates incorrectly. The above dates are correct.
Greta Bahnemann (Minitex) and Jason Roy (University of Minnesota Libraries) are two of the authors of the new OCLC Research report on the CONTENTdm Linked Data Pilot project’s findings. The report outlines “the benefits of working in a linked data environment, the potential to develop a shared data model, and the challenges facing efforts to transform metadata into linked data.”
This year's Computers in Libraries Conference is going virtual. The cost to attend is $299, but you can save $100 by participating in the Group Discount Plan through Minitex.
Check out this list of library professional development opportunities taking place in February that are available through Level Up!
Explora Teens, an ELM database, offers access to 60,000 videos from the Associated Press, the world's leading news agency. The videos include primary source footage and editorially produced videos.
January 29, 2021, is celebrated as Multicultural Children's Book Day, a day to "not only raise awareness for the kid’s books that celebrate diversity but to get more of these books into classrooms and libraries."
As of January 26th, the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) is retiring the name "Minnesota Reflections" to describe the digital collection. All things MDL, including the collection, will be available through mndigital.org.
From the Civil Rights Movement to Michelle Obama, from Rosa Parks to Langston Hughes, from the Buffalo Soldiers to Stokely Carmichael, African Americans have contributed to the United States in countless ways and we celebrate them in February, as we should every month of the year, with Black History Month.