Digital Collections
Minitex News articles tagged with "Digital Collections" (109):
New Contributing Organization to Minnesota Reflections: MN Veterinary Historical Museum
The Minnesota Digital Library is pleased to announce the addition of a new contributing partner - the Minnesota Veterinary Historical Museum. The Veterinary Historical Museum helps to fill a gap in the Minnesota Digital Library regarding animals, veterinarians, and animal care in Minnesota. The Historical Museum has shared 36 photographs of early veterinary practice in Minnesota. The addition of this partner's collections marks our 196th contributing organization!
New contribution to Minnesota Reflections: Kanabec County Historical Society
The Minnesota Digital Libray is pleased to share new images from the growing Kanabec County Historical Society's collection. Their new contribution focuses on the activities at the various Kanabec County schools, including sport teams such as the basketball teams and baseball teams. Many of these images document the changing look of athletic uniforms and equipment. There are also images of school clubs, including the Home Economics club.
New contribution to Minnesota Reflections: Northfield Historical Society
The Minnesota Digital Library is pleased to announce a new addition to the Northfield Historical Society's growing collection - a new ledger book which documents the city of Northfield's City Council Meeting Minutes from July 1917 through December 1928. This ledger book contains information on city business, decisions made, and general city progress.
The Norwegian-American Historical Association - new contributor to Minnesota Digital Library
The Norwegian-American Historical Association joins the Minnesota Digital Library as our 195th partner organization! The Historical Association shares photographs of Norwegians in Minnesota as well as images and a sourvenir booklet of the Norse-American Centennial parade that was held in New York City in 1925.
New contribution to Minnesota Reflections: Weavers Guild of Minnesota
The Minnesota Digital Library is pleased to announce an addition to the Weavers Guild of Minnesota collection. This addition includes new issues of The Threadbenders, a newsletter which was produced in the 1970s. Issues of The Minnesota Weaver are also included. Each issue provides information on classes, board meeting, and special events.
New contributor to Minnesota Reflections: Cold Spring Area Historical Society
The Minnesota Digital Library is pleased to announce a new contributing organization: Cold Spring Area Historical Society. Cold Spring Area Historical Society has shared a ledger book which served as Ashley C. Riggs' journal from 1852-1873. The earliest entries are from Cold Spring, Minnesota (Stearns County) and Watab, Minnesota (Benton County).
DIME staff attend 2019 CONTENTdm User Group Meeting
Jolie Graybill, Sara Ring, and Greta Bahnemann traveled to Indianapolis, Indiana to attend the 2019 CONTENTdm User Group Meeting, where they had the opportunity to attend numerous sessions and updates regarding CONTENTdm. Craig MacDonald (School of Information at Pratt Institute) kicked things off with a keynote address on User Experience (UX), in which he introduced the concept of capacity-building and the steps needed to intitiate and susatain effective UX practices.
Second chance to attend a Rights Statements event with MDL!
We are hosting another of our training events for those who want to learn more about standardized rights statements and their implementation. It will be on Thursday, August 15th at the Kathryn A. Martin Library at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and it is open to the public and free of charge. Learn more and register here.
New MDL webpage and introductory videos on implementing rights statements in Minnesota Reflections
Want to know more about rights statements? The rights statements project team has put together a new resource webpage, located in the Standards and Best Practices section of the MDL website. It contains an overview of the project, and access to a variety of training materials and resources.
New Minitex guest webinar: Co-Curating the Past: Community Collection Building through History Harvests
Join us on Wednesday, March 6 for the guest webinar Co-Curating the Past: Community Collection Building through History Harvests, presented by Greg Kocken and Daniel Ott from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Register now for this free webinar.