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Banned Books Week is crucial to raising awareness about real, and all too common, threats to intellectual freedom. Endorsed by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, Banned Books Week is an annual celebration of the freedom to read.
Registration is open until October 12th for the MN+ Digital Collections Conference and MDL Annual Meeting. This hybrid event will be held Monday, October 17th (in-person) and Tuesday, October 18th (virtual).
We are pleased to announce the keynotes for the October 17-18 MN+ Digital Collections Conference and MDL Annual Meeting. Dr. Kirsten Delegard from the project Mapping Prejudice will open the program on October 17th (in-person day). John Garrison Marks from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) will keynote the virtual day of the conference on October 18th, discussing AASLH's new Reframing History initiative and toolkit. We hope you can join us for these exciting and informative presentations!
A new and improved version of the Minitex Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Policy Database is now available. Learn how you can enter, update, and maintain your library's policy information.
The next installment of Minitex Conversations: Project Management is Wednesday, September 14 at 10 a.m. In this session we will have a brief introduction to charters then open the session for a broader conversation about current work.
Minitex and the Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State are partnering to offer two webinars to help library staff prepare for the upcoming midterm elections. The one-hour webinars will be held at 1:00 p.m. on September 7 and September 26.
Staff at the Waseca Public Library use local and statewide resources to provide outstanding service to their patrons. A single LSTA grant distributed in 2015 has led to seven years (and counting) of excellence in early literacy programming.
The 23 Linked Data Things project organizers are pleased to announce that Things 6, 7, and 8 are now published and available on the website. Things 6 and 7 are all about exploring what libraries are doing with linked data, and Thing 8 is an introduction to the Library of Congress BIBFRAME project.
Along with currently scheduled webinars on eLibrary Minnesota resources, the Minitex Outreach & Instruction (O&I) unit wants to make sure that Minnesota library staff and educators know that we are available for instruction customized to your needs.