Minnesota Digital Library
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RSVP now for the Primary Source Sets Open House on November 30!
What: Primary Source Sets Guest Author Open House
When: Thursday, November 30, 2:00 pm
Where: Minitex River Room, Room 60 Wilson Library
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New Primary Source Set: Whaleback Boats on the Great Lakes
The newest Primary Source Set documents the history of Whaleback Boats on the Great Lakes. It recounts the history of the whaleback boat including information on the designer and builder, as well as information on the uses of whaleback boats, its design flaws, and the whaleback's appearance at the Chicago World Fair in 1893.
New contribution to Minnesota Reflections: Minnesota State University, Mankato
The Minnesota Digital Library is excited to announce the addition of a series of 14 panoramic photographs into the Minnesota State University, Mankato collection in Minnesota Reflections. These images capture class portraits during the years when the school was known as the Mankato State Teachers College. The rise of panoramic photographs during the late 19th and early 20th centuries is due to the advent and widespread availability of several different panoramic cameras including the Wonder Panoramic Camera (1889), Stereo Cyclographe (1894), the Al-Vista (1898), the Kodak Panoram (1899), the Periphote (1900), and the Cirkut Camera (1904).
New contribution to Minnesota Reflections: Weavers Guild of Minnesota
The Minnesota Digital Library is excited to announce a new addition to the collection of the Weavers Guild of Minnesota. In addition to a series of photographs on weaving show and exhibitions, the contribution also includes Weaving Guild minutes, notes, and correspondence. These materials document the activities of the Guild during World War II as well as the 1950s and 1960s.
New Primary Source Set: Traveling Library Services in Minnesota
The Minnesota Digital Library has another addition to its Primary Source Set Collection, Traveling Library Services in Minnesota. Minnesota Reflections is rich with images and documents chronicling bookmobiles and other traveling library services in our state. The first remote access to library services was in the form of traveling libraries, collections of 25-50 books packed into a box and delivered to communities requesting them. Bookmobiles emerged in the early 20th century and reached prominence by mid-century. Despite today’s prevalence of remote digital access to library services and resources, there are still hundreds of bookmobiles in operation across the United States. The Traveling Library Services Primary Source Set features images documenting the evolution of bookmobiles through the decades as well as book lists from the earliest traveling libraries.
MDL staff attend DPLAfest
Minnesota Digital Library staff members attended the Digital Public Library of America's DPLAfest held in Chicago, April 20-21. Greta Bahnemann, Metadata Librarian, presented as part of a panel session on metadata for digital collections along with staff from the Arizona Memory Project. Together they shared tips on dealing with common problems and provided updates on recent projects at each DPLA service hub. The session was also highlighted in American Libraries. Molly Huber, Outreach Coordinator, coordinated a panel session that was comprised of staff from the Digital Library of Georgia, Illinois Digital Heritage, University of Miami, Washington University in St. Louis, and Penn State.
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.
New Primary Source Set on Postcards
We are pleased to announce a new addition to the Minnesota Digital Library's Primary Source Set collection. Each Primary Source Set focuses on a historic topic and showcases the various resources found in Minnesota Reflections that relate to that subject. This new primary source set, which focuses on postcards, is the first in a number of new primary source sets that will focus on physical formats found in Minnesota Reflections.
Save the Date and Call for Proposals for the 15th MDL Annual Conference
The Minnesota Digital Library annual meeting planning committee is seeking your ideas for breakout sessions for the MDL 15th Annual Meeting, which will be held on Wednesday, May 31st, 2017 at the Continuing Education and Conference Center on the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus. The overall theme of this year’s conference is Diversity and Inclusion in Digital Collections and we are pleased to feature as our keynote the team behind Umbra Search African American History.
New Primary Source Set just added to Minnesota Digital Library
A new addition has been made to the Minnesota Digital Library’s Primary Source Set collection —Natural Disasters in Minnesota. This primary source set includes documentation of devastating tornadoes in Sauk Rapids and Rochester in the late nineteenth century, the Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940, the Cloquet and Moose Lake Fires of 1918, and major flooding on the Minnesota River.