Are teachers in your school or district engaging in professional learning before the year begins? Encourage them to spend some time exploring eLibrary Minnesota and Ebooks Minnesota with our self-paced modules, curriculum resource guides, and curriculum resource packs, reviewed and updated for Fall 2024.
The Sentry EM Bookwand is a portable tool for reactivating books, either individually or in groups, and the Sentry EM Desktop Deactivator is a non-electric device used to safely desensitize materials for manual checkout. Minitex, a leading distributor of Sentry's library security products, offers these devices at discounted prices until October 31, 2024.
Minnesota recently passed legislation called Access to Library Materials and Rights Protected. It affects all publicly funded libraries. See what this legislation means for your library and check out all the resources available for library workers.
Minitex Outreach & Instruction staff are here to remind you that we offer training on the eLibrary Minnesota resources for school and library staff in Minnesota.
The Minnesota Digital Library has published a resource guide exploring this year’s National History Day theme: Rights & Responsibilities in History using materials from our digital collections.
Level Up is now the Minnesota Libraries Learning Network (MLLN), the Minnesota library community's source for professional development information, now featuring 28 opportunities through May 2025. Visit mlln.org for these learning opportunities.
Libraries are essential. But what makes them unique from other public spaces? I explored this question using resources available on MNLINK and eLibrary Minnesota.
Minitex staff and librarians who work with eLibrary Minnesota, Ebooks Minnesota, Minnesota Digital Library, and Resource Sharing create monthly Resource Packs for Minnesota schools to highlight content that can be used in the classroom. This month's pack features fiction, nonfiction, and primary sources about Mental Health.
This full-time position, based in Winona, requires a Master of Library Science degree from an American Library Association (ALA) accredited institution, or its equivalent, and experience or education that demonstrates knowledge of information literacy instruction. A candidate fluent in Spanish will be preferred.
This full-time position, based in Minneapolis, requires a Master of Library Science degree from an American Library Association (ALA) accredited institution, or its equivalent, and experience developing HTML5 and CSS-based websites. A candidate fluent in Spanish will be preferred.