50th Anniversary

Minitex News articles tagged with "50th Anniversary" (31):

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Partner profile: Rochester Public Library

In honor of our 50th Anniversary, we're catching up with each of our original partner libraries. We've asked staff members from each library to reflect on their shared history with Minitex and update us on how their institutions have grown and changed over the years. This week, we're checking in with Karen Lemke, Head of Marketing & Community Engagement at Rochester Public Library.
A photo of the Kathryn A. Martin Library at University of Minnesota Duluth.

Partner profile: University of Minnesota Duluth

In honor of our 50th Anniversary, we're catching up with each of our original partner libraries. We've asked staff members from each library to reflect on their shared history with Minitex and update us on how their institutions have grown and changed over the years. This week, we're checking in with Matt Rosendahl, Library Director at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
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1969 flashback: Impressions of Interlibrary Loan in Minnesota

I interviewed dozens of librarians over the last several years through the Minitex oral history project, all available in the Minitex collection for the Minnesota Digital Library. In honor of our 50th Anniversary, I would like to select and share a few of the stories from that collection. This is the first article in an occasional series published in the Minitex Messenger.
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New pens commemorate Minitex's 50th year

Over the coming months, Minitex will have a new gift with which to thank our friends in the library community and beyond: a limited-edition black Minitex pen featuring our commemorative 50th-anniversary logo. A blue version will also be available.
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Resources for teachers available year round

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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all we have we offer

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

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.
A photograph of former Minitex associate director Anita Branin sitting in front of the computer.

Minitex Memories: Student workers entertain themselves in the 70's

In the 1970's, student workers coded holdings data onto paper forms, and Earleen Warner (née Petersen) entered them onto tapes which eventually became the printed Minitex Union List of Serials (MULS). Over the course of the project, the students found creative ways to motivate themselves and lighten their work.
Little Free Library, Cancun.

Minitex Memories: Expanding delivery to include Little Free Libraries

In 50 years of service to libraries, Minitex has never shied from a challenge. Minitex's groundbreaking delivery service to Little Free Libraries launched four years ago today, enabling library patrons to borrow books from 50,000 Little Free Libraries in more than 70 countries. In theory, at least.
A word search puzzle with the title "50th Anniversary Word Search." The words to find are Interlibrary, Ebooks, Cataloging, MNLINK, Teletype, Delivery, ASKMN, Serials, Experiment, and Digital.

50th Anniversary Word Search

We've created a word search puzzle to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Minitex! Can you find all of the words?