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Spark your interest with Minitex Connect: Here's some reasons to get excited!

Mar 27, 2024

by Dana Kocienda

Dive into Minitex Connect for only $40! Join keynote speaker Sebastian Hammer for insights on collaborative software. Plus, MNLINK training, panels, and a celebration of 20 years! If you provide interlibrary loan services at your library, or are interested in any aspect of resource sharing, please join us to learn more about what’s happening in interlibrary loan and beyond.

Academic libraries can be Summer Food Service Program sites

Mar 22, 2024

by Jesus Maldonado Sanchez

Help the youth in your community have access to daily meals by becoming a USDA Summer Food Service program (SFSP) site. Libraries and SFSP are a great fit.

A graphic of this years Minitex Madness which consists of a bracket pitting genres against eachother.

Vote for your favorite genres in Minitex Madness

Mar 22, 2024

by Jesus Maldonado Sanchez

Will the number one seed, Romance, assert its dominance and establish a dynasty, or will the #8 seed, Self-Help, shock the field and take the title?

Call for proposals: Minnesota Learning Commons Summit on Learning and Technology

Mar 22, 2024

by Zach Miller

The MnLC Summit on Learning and Technology will take place at St. Cloud State University of August 8. Proposals for 25- or 45-minute proposals are due by April 25.

University of Minnesota seeks Metadata Specialist Supervisor

Mar 22, 2024

by Zach Miller

This is a full-time civil service position with a minimum salary of $51,334. The incumbent's primary duties will be supervision, cataloging, and project management and leadership.

Pine Bloom woven swatch by Hilma Berglund

New MDL Primary Source Set: Hilma Berglund

Mar 21, 2024

by Grace Onsrud, Stephanie Hess

Meet Hilma Berglund, a weaver and founding member of the Weavers Guild of Minnesota, through a new Primary Source Set in the Minnesota Digital Library.

Schooners at a coal dock, Duluth, Minnesota

MDL publishes new exhibit on George A. Newton

Mar 20, 2024

by Greta Bahnemann

The Minnesota Digital Library has published a new exhibit on the photographer George A. Newton. Newton lived and worked in Duluth at the end of the nineteenth century.