Join the MLA Instruction Round Table on October 8 for an hour-long opportunity to connect around instruction related to the research process and source evaluation. Registration is free.
For Latinx Heritage Month, Minitex wants to highlight the diverse voices of Latinx librarians and library workers and celebrate their contributions to Minnesota libraries.
Libraries offer their communities much more than the books on their shelves. In Grand Rapids, Minnesota, they even offer passport applications and renewals.
Minitex is giving away 30 boxes of Red Tag 9040 Double CD Cases (Clear) to any library that can use them, after they were left unclaimed at their warehouse. These durable, clear cases are perfect for libraries looking to store and organize their CD collections. These could also be used to store DVD or Blue Ray discs.
Enrollment will close November 15 for the new Minitex Shared Digital Collection for Schools. This is a shared digital collection of high-interest ebooks and audiobooks for K-12 schools in Minnesota.
Ebooks Minnesota now includes many of the 2025 Minnesota Youth Reading Awards (MYRA) nominees.
Minitex is excited to offer official NACO Training with Mark K. Ehlert this spring. This training is a refresher for catalogers in the Minnesota NACO Funnel, and open to any cataloger proficient with copy cataloging in a bibliographic utility.
Educators: Apply by September 26 for an Understand Native Minnesota mini-grant.
The Minnesota Digital Library has opened its new project year and is accepting applications related to two important anniversaries, as well as a range of other Minnesota topics.
The Schlager Digital Library, a scholar-curated and annotated collection of primary sources, is a potential new e-resources vendor for Minitex.
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 Agriculture.
Scite, a potential new e-resource vendor for Minitex, is an AI tool that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through their Smart Citations, that display the contact of the citation.
The report includes a narrative of highlights from the past year, topline statistics for each Minitex service, a financial overview, and links to additional information.