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Minitex News articles tagged with "Annual Conferences" (26):

Visit us at NDLA in Fargo, ND

We're looking forward to attending the North Dakota Library Association Annual Conference on October 11-13 in Fargo. Minitex staff attending include Elissah Becknell (Cataloging & Metadata Education Librarian), Molly Huber (Minnesota Digital Library Outreach Coordinator), Ann Kaste (Representing E-Resource and Products Cooperative Purchasing), Sara Ring (Continuing Education Librarian), and Director Maggie Snow.

MLA 2021: Inclusive leadership, information literacy, and intellectual freedom

We attended some great sessions at the Minnesota Library Association's Annual Conference this year. Here are a few highlights from Stephanie Hess, Molly Huber, and Sara Ring.

NDLA 2019 Conference recap

In late September I was able to attend and present at the North Dakota Library Association Annual Conference, held in West Fargo. All in all the 2019 NDLA Conference was enjoyable and illuminating. 

MLA 2019 Annual Conference recap

There were some great sessions this year at the Minnesota Library Association Annual Conference, which took place at a new conference venue, the Mystic Lake Center in Prior Lake, Minnesota. I learned more about Hennepin County Library's latest digitization projects and ever-expanding community-based archival collections, racial equity programming and collection management initiatives at Ramsey County Libraries, how to incorporate equity, diversity, and inclusion principles in library catalogs, options for LIS work abroad via the Fulbright Specialist Program, and more about libraries building relationships with Native community partners. 

SDLA 2019 Annual Conference recap

I had the pleasure of attending the South Dakota Library Association Annual Conference in Spearfish. Like the beautiful landscape surrounding it, I found the conference engaging and inspriring. The first day I presented a preconference on linked data developments in libraries, and the room was full of staff from school, public, and academic institutions. Between presenting and hanging out at the Minitex booth, I attended some great sessions, and had the chance to hear ALA President Wanda Brown speak during a keynote session. 

Cataloging and Metadata programming at ALA Annual 2019

We've pulled together a list of some of the cataloging and metadata sessions offered at ALA Annual 2019. You will also find links to the full list at the bottom of this article. 

MDL at the 2019 Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums Conference

I attended the 2019 Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums Annual Conference, held this year in Red Wing on April 24th and 25th, with pre-conference events on April 23rd. MDL was well represented with a professional table at the event, and many conference attendees stopped by. They were especially interested in the new materials on rights statements put together by the MDL/University of Minnesota rights statements standardization project team consisting of me, Greta Bahnemann, Sara Ring, and Nancy Sims. On Thursday morning, I presented about rights statements and their implementation alongside Stephanie Hess of the Northfield Historical Society, one of our rights pilot project participants.

Fall library conference summary from DIME staff

Read a few highlights from our trips to the 2018 state library association conferences in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minot, North Dakota, and St. Cloud, Minnesota.

Exploring top technology trends

Information technology experts from across the library field shared trends that will impact the profession at this year’s annual conference in New Orleans.

Enhancing Quality Staff in Changing Times – 2018 Symposium

The 26th Enhancing Quality Staff (EQS) Symposium will be held on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 in St. Paul. The EQS symposium serves library paraprofessionals and support staff from around the state of Minnesota by offering career enrichment opportunities and the chance to network.