Digital Collections
Minitex News articles tagged with "Digital Collections" (101):
New contribution to Minnesota Reflections: Dorothy Molter Museum
We are so pleased to announce the addition of a new contributor to Minnesota Reflections, the Dorothy Molter Museum in Ely, Minnesota. These images provide a glimpse of Dorothy Molter's life as a wilderness woman and nurse on Knife Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Her family, friends, and her work running Knife Lake resort are documented in these images. The addition of these materials from Minnesota's Arrowhead country helps fill a gap in Minnesota Reflections.
You're invited to the Immigrant Stories launch
Join the University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) on March 9 as they launch the new Immigrant Stories website! The free website helps anyone make a video about a personal or family immigration experience and add it to the IHRC growing Immigrant Stories collection. Come learn about the project, watch some digital stories, and see their free curriculum for educators. RSVP to attend, or sign up to attend the webinar on March 15.
New contribution to Minnesota Reflections: Minnesota Library Association
New content has been added to the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) Collection in Minnesota Reflections. The collection now includes founding documents of the Association, scripts from a library radio show that ran from 1938-1939, the first traveling library book list from 1898, conference programs dating back to 1896, and association newsletters from 1939-2005.
New contribution to Minnesota Reflections: Military Historical Society of Minnesota, part 2
An additional volume from the Military Historical Society of Minnesota has been added to Minnesota Reflections. Together with the other volumes in this collection, these books help to document Minnesota's involvement in World War I. These volumes are filled with invaluable information for historians, genealogists and World War I historians.
New contribution to Minnesota Reflections: Winona Public Library
The Winona Public Library’s new contribution to Minnesota Reflections includes the original library blueprints, the Kenyon Cox sketches for his iconic sculpture, Library Board minutes dating back to 1866, photographs, and historical documents on the creation and operation of the Winona Public Library. The Library also contributed Winona High School commencement programs from the late 1870s and an interesting 1857 map of the City of Winona.
New contribution to Minnesota Reflections: St. Cloud State University - World War I addition
The Minnesota Digital Library is pleased to announce a new addition to the St. Cloud State University's collection in Minnesota Reflections, a 1920 book "Renville County in the World War," which commemorates the service of Renville County during World War I. Portraits of the men and women who served are included with a brief summary of their personal history and service to the country during the first World War.
New contribution to Minnesota Reflections: Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum located in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, is a new contributor to Minnesota Reflections. The Museum serves the greater Walnut Grove area as a research and genealogy resource for local history and as the repository for historical artifacts from the area. While Laura Ingalls Wilder is undoubtedly the area's most famous resident, the Museum's mission includes the collection, preservation, and display of all aspects of local history. The grounds inlcude nine buildings including a 1870s railroad depot, an onion-domed home from 1904, the Masters Hotel built in 1876, and several buildings devoted to the display and understanding of local history.
Measuring impact of digital collections: A trove of community resources
If you have a digital collection at your organization and are thinking about any type of assessment, I encourage you to look at the good work of the Digital Library Federation’s Digital Assessment Interest Group. Formed in 2014, this interest group is looking at how to measure impact of digital collections, develop areas of commonality, and discuss how to best collect, analyze, and share information.
Recap: 2016 Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference/CONTENTdm Users Group
111 people attended the 2nd Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference and CONTENTdm Users Group meeting that took place August 9-11, St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa (Quad Cities). Minitex, WiLS, and RAILS were the primary organizers of the conference.
Minitex virtual course offered on digital preservation
While many of the traditional resources found in libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions--books, photographs, objects--can survive for years with no intervention, digital content is much more fragile. Managing it requires ongoing care and preservation activities to ensure continued access far into the future. This virtual series--based on the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) Program curriculum--introduces fundamental concepts for managing your digital content over time through a series of six modules delivered in two half-day sessions.