Minnesota Digital Library
Minitex News articles tagged with "Minnesota Digital Library" (157):
Two new MDL webinars: Using and creating Primary Source Sets
Join Minitex staff for two new Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) webinars to learn more about the MDL Primary Source Sets and how to get involved as a guest author. Please join us for one or both of these sessions on April 17 and April 24.
Recap of March 13th rights workshop and plans for future training
On Friday, March 13th, we held a training event at Minitex for colleagues interested in learning about standardized rights statements and how to apply them. A small but engaged group joined us and together we reviewed the statements from rightsstatements.org and worked through examples from Minnesota Reflections and the University of Minnesota's collections. Our participants found that applying rights statements is often easier than you think!
New contribution to Minnesota Reflections: Carleton College's Weather Diaries
The Minnesota Digital Library is excited to share a new contribution to our collection from Carleton College. Carleton has elected to share a collection of 61 weather diaries from their archives. Carleton students, faculty, and staff used the U.S. Army Signal Services Form #101 to record temperature, weather condition, and precipitation amounts for the station located at Carleton's first observatory in 1885. These diaries provide an intersting look at historic weather patterns in Northfield, Minnesota.
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.
Save the date for the March 2020 rights implementation workshop!
Why is this Minitex meeting room empty? Because we want you to help us fill it on Friday, March 13th for the next in our series of rights statements implementation workshops.
Still time to apply for Minnesota Reflections Phase 16
Have you applied to be part of Minnesota Reflections Phase 16 yet? There is still time, and we would love to hear from you! It is likely you have items in your collection that would be a good fit, and we would love to work with you to develop a project.
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.