Digital Collections
Minitex News articles tagged with "Digital Collections" (116):
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Collection Development course
This comprehensive, 5-hour course, led by Dr. Michele Leininger, is designed to equip library staff without an MLIS with the essential knowledge and skills to succeed in collection development.
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City of Plymouth shares a new collection of Hennepin County maps with MDL
The City of Plymouth contributed a new collection of maps of Plymouth, Hennepin County, and the surrounding area to the Minnesota Digital Library.
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Minnesota State Horticultural Society adds publications to MDL collection
The Minnesota State Horticultural Society’s newest contributions to the Minnesota Digital Library include more issues of “The Minnesota Horticulturist” and “Northern Gardener.”
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Inver Hills Community College contributes student newspaper collection to MDL
Inver Hills Community College has recently contributed 320 issues of their student newspaper, "The Forum," to the Minnesota Digital Library.
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New MDL exhibit highlights the impact of iron mining on Minnesota
The Minnesota Digital Library recently published a new online exhibit titled "Ore on the Range: The Impact of Iron Mining on Minnesota."
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Minnesota Digital Library achieves 60,000 digitized items milestone
The Minnesota Digital Library recently passed the 60,000 mark for the total amount of unique digital items available on its website.
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Journey “Up North” and back in time to northern Minnesota’s resorts
The Minnesota Digital Library recently published an online map exploring hotel and resort history in northern Minnesota.
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Filling the Minnesota map for MDL’s 20th anniversary
The Minnesota Digital Library will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2025. In honor of that milestone, MDL has a goal to add a contributing organization from each of Minnesota’s 87 counties. We are only missing eighteen counties!
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Last call to register for Minitex digital preservation course: Managing Digital Content Over Time
The deadline to register is Monday, April 8th for the spring offering of "Managing Digital Content Over Time: An Introduction to Digital Preservation." If caring for digital objects is part of your work, consider joining us for this 3-part virtual course!
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Making digital collections more discoverable, Part 1: Wikimedia
In 2023, Minitex and three organizations conducted a small pilot to learn more about using the wiki-based, free-to-use media repository called Wikimedia Commons, along with its sister sites Wikidata and Wikipedia, to increase discoverability of content from digital collections. Soon after adding the very first test image to Wikimedia Commons, it appeared as the top Google Search result. If this sounds intriguing, read on for a brief overview of why we did the pilot and what we learned.