University of Minnesota seeks Archival Assistant with a base pay of $22.50/hour. This position requires a basic office skills, and the ability to engage with library patrons and donors at public functions on and offsite of the library.
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Join us May 6-7 for the Minitex Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference and Minnesota Digital Library Annual Meeting in St. Paul at the Union Depot. A streaming option is available for those unable to join in person. Register by April 30!
The library community offers valuable tools to Minnesota's independent authors, including Pressbooks, the Indie Author Project, and Biblioboard. These services were formerly branded together under the "MN Writes MN Reads" moniker.
Discuss with colleagues the role of libraries in promoting, cataloging, and storing open resources created by faculty and other authors. Librarians at Minnesota State Universities in Mankato and Moorhead will share their experiences, after which participants are encouraged to share their experiences and questions in a group discussion.
Free Magazine Storage Boxes Available for Libraries through Anoka County Library.
Ebooks Minnesota recently added a series of books around current controversies, like climate change, cyberterrorism, and AI.
Last month, we visited the Crooked Lake branch of the Anoka County Public Library, where we sat (and even participated) in their wildly popular class, “Senior Chef: Cooking for One (or Two!)” A response to a community need, this class helps promote community building among senior patrons, through cooking healthy meals.
Minnesota is filled with amazing public libraries, school libraries, and academic libraries. But there's a fourth library type that deserves just as much attention: so-called "special" libraries. These are the libraries that serve government, business, healthcare, and just about every other niche of the information delivery ecosystem. The Minnesota Braille and Talking Book Library is one prominent example.
Federal funding from the Library Services and Technology Act, provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, enables Minitex to collaborate with Minnesota’s entire library community. We centralize processes, share resources and infrastructure, and leverage economies of scale to provide high-quality services that save money and use public resources as efficiently as possible.