On December 7, the Association of Minnesota Counties presented Washington County Library with a County Achievement Award for its pioneering curbside pickup program.
This fall Minitex conducted an environmental assessment of Ebooks MN, to take an intentional look at where the program stands within the context of the ebooks environment in Minnesota. The outcomes will help us pursue what’s next for Ebooks MN, including within a vendor RFP.
As of December 15, 2020, what is currently the beta RDA Toolkit will become the official active RDA Toolkit.
Many ELM databases have features for adjusting and selecting article reading levels to meet students' needs.
Learn about self-publishing with the Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project (MLPP) in this free, self-paced course.
Contract Cataloging services are operational, with some small changes due to remote work situations.
From America to Scandinavia to the Far East, people celebrate holidays with special rituals and festivities. Holidays are an essential part of any students learning. This curation, in Ebooks Minnesota, introduces them to diverse cultures, gives them a global perspective, and can help them make ELA and social studies connections.
Once again, I was fortunate to attend a day-long virtual workshop titled, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Libraries: Progress and Promise, hosted by Amigos Library Services. This workshop took a close look at EDI in libraries in order to explore what initiatives have worked and what have not. Out of the sessions I attend, I really seemed to get the most out of Checking Your Work: Using Diversity Audits to Make Collection Development Decisions.