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Brookings, South Dakota bound: Come see us at SDLA!

by Sara Ring, Ann Kaste
Attending the South Dakota Library Association Annual Conference? Here are a few places you can see and visit with Minitex staff members Ann Kaste (Electronic Resources Librarian), Sara Ring (Continuing Education Librarian), and Director Maggie Snow.
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Resource Sharing Trends Survey

by Gerri Moeller
Have your resource sharing numbers and patterns changed in the last few years? Are you wondering what other libraries are experiencing? So are we! Melissa Eighmy Brown from the University of Minnesota and Gerri Moeller from Minitex have developed a short survey to help us learn more about recent resource sharing trends.
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Level Up! Professional development opportunities for Fall 2022

by Kay Kirscht, Zach Miller
The Level Up! training calendar presents professional development opportunities from across the Minnesota library community, all in one place. The calendar is funded by Minnesota's Multicounty Multitype Library Systems.
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MNLINK sharing Ebooks Minnesota again

by Nick Banitt
The Ebooks Minnesota content has been added to the OCLC collection manager this week, and made available as a collection for users of MNLINK.
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AskMN FY22 Report now available

by Carla Pfahl
While overall usage slowed down from the height of the pandemic it was still a very busy year for questions. The five year trends for overall usage and academic usage continue to increase and public library usage remains quite strong.
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Outreach & Instruction staff at fall conferences

by Beth Staats
Minitex Outreach & Instruction staff are looking forward to being out and about at several conferences exhibiting and presenting on ELM and Ebooks Minnesota this fall. Be sure to stop by the eLibrary Minnesota or Minitex booth to pick up promotional materials and say hello.
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Last chance to register for ALA Advocacy Academy

by Sara Ring
We still have some open seats for the ALA Advocacy Academy class, taking place virtually in two parts on September 20th and September 27th. This is the first in a Minitex series of library advocacy-related webinars, presented by Megan Cusick (Deputy Director for State Advocacy, ALA) and Shawnda Hines (Deputy Director of Communications, ALA).