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Gustavus Adolphus College seeks Acquisitions Manager & Cataloging Specialist

by Jordan Wagaman
Gustavus Adolphus College invites applications for a full-time, 10.5 month, 40 hours per week, exempt (salaried) Acquisitions Manager & Cataloging Specialist. Anticipated state date is July 15, 2021. Review of applications will begin on June 1st and continue until the position is filled.
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Register Now for the Lake Superior Libraries Symposium: Mapping Our Identity

by Jordan Wagaman
Registration for the FREE ninth Lake Superior Libraries Symposium is now open! LSLS21: Mapping Our Identity will be held virtually on Friday, June 11th, 2021. Library staff, administrators, trustees, and students from the Upper Midwest and beyond are invited to attend and participate.
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Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota seeks Instruction and Outreach Librarian

by Jordan Wagaman
Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota invites applications for an Instruction and Outreach Librarian to be located either on the Twin Cities or Winona campus. The Instruction and Outreach Librarian enables students, faculty, and staff to become independent researchers through transformative individual and group instruction, delivered face-to-face and online.
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Resources for teachers available year round

by Zach Miller
Minitex supports teachers and educators of every kind all year round. Our offerings include ebooks, encyclopedias, scholarly journals, local history, publishing tools, and much more.
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New PebbleGo content added

by Beth Staats
PebbleGo just added several new articles including new Animals and Biographies articles that are now available in the ELM modules. There are also several new American Indian Biographies articles, including an article about Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan.
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Gardening: That wonderful time of year

by Beth Staats
Some of you may have already started, but it's never too early, or too late to research and plan for your summer flower or vegetable garden.
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all we have we offer

by Zach Miller
A poem by Minneapolis artist Diver Van Avery commemorating Minitex's 50th anniversary for National Poetry Month.
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Minitex Memories: PhD student recalls "before times" as Minitex employee

by Zach Miller
Sometimes PhD students talk about their "before times" and the work they were doing (especially in those bouts of existential wonder of why they even chose to pursue a PhD in the first place). For Evan Marsolek, a PhD student at Loyola University Chicago, that means talking about Minitex.