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2015 Minnesota Library Association keynote: All you need is love

by Sara Ring
At the Minnesota Library Association Annual Conference in St. Paul (Oct 8-9), Eli Neiburger from Ann Arbor District Library presented “FLATLAND: A Romance of Many Dimensions.” He used the 1884 satirical book of the same title to tell a story about how libraries should seek to offer services in the 4th dimension: love. His message? To be successful, do things at the library that people love, not what they need or want, and they will support you when you need it. 

End of Year Promotions from McGraw-Hill Education

by Anne Hatinen

McGraw-Hill Education is offering some end of year promotions on new AccessScience, AccessEngineering or McGraw-Hill E-Book Library subscriptions and purchases

What the Google Books Ruling Means for Libraries

by Matt Lee

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled unanimously in favor of Google over the Authors Guild’s complaints about Google Books and the digitization of in-copyright materials.

OCLC Research webinar: Making the transition from MARC to Linked Data easier

by Sara Ring
OCLC Research TAI CHI Webinar: How You Can Make the Transition from MARC to Linked Data Easier Attend this webinar on November 5th, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (Central) and learn more about what metadata specialists can do now to make it easier to transform text strings in MARC data into the entity-“things” we later expose as linked data that others can consume.

Reflections on the 2015 SDLA Annual Conference

by Sara Ring
Minitex staff traveled to Rapid City South Dakota in late September to attend and present at the South Dakota Library Association Annual Conference. Along the way, we stopped at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell and the School of Mines & Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota. Below is a brief summary of both site visits, along with a few takeaways from the annual conference. See you next year SDLA!

Sara Ring wins 2015 MLA President's Award

by Zach Miller

The Minnesota Library Association honored Sara Ring with their President's Award on October 8 at the St. Paul RiverCentre. The President's Award "recognizes significant and major contributions" by members of the Association. Ring is former chair of the MLA Communications Committee and led the effort this year to digitize and preserve a portion of the MLA archives.