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Minitex News articles tagged with "MnLINK Gateway" (21):

Minitex website, ELM, and other Minitex services will be unavailable Saturday, January 9

The University of Minnesota servers that support the Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM), the Minitex website, and other Minitex services will be down for maintenance this Saturday, January 9. Service will be restored the next day. We apologize for the inconvenience.

MnLINK Gateway update -- OCLC reclamation, marketing and more!

We continue to work toward an implementation of the OCLC WorldCat Discovery platform.  To date, we have held five webinars for libraries interested in the OCLC Batchload/Reclamation offer available through the recently negotiated MnLINK contract. We are expecting to move to the new discovery platform by July 2016.

MnLINK Libraries encouraged to attend OCLC Reclamation Webinar

Staff from libraries who are interested in the reclamation offer for the MnLINK Gateway transition to OCLC WorldCat Discovery are strongly encouraged to attend a 60-minute OCLC webinar to learn more about the project. The webinar will take place on Tuesday,October 6 at 10:00 AM and again on Thurs

MnLINK Gateway update: OCLC Reclamation Webinar dates and more!

The initial phase of the process to move the current MnLINK user interface to the OCLC WorldCat Discovery platform is underway.  Find out about more details in this article.

Minitex Public Library Node meeting 2015

This year’s Public Library Node meeting was well-attended, as Minitex and Minnesota public libraries came together to celebrate the successful completion of the MnLINK Gateway RFP and the announcement of OCLC’s WorldCat Discovery being chosen as the new end-user interface for the next generation

Minitex Resource Sharing staff visit Washington County Library

Tuesday, August 11, was a beautiful morning (a WCCO TV top 10 weather day!) for a drive out to Woodbury for a training session with the new interlibrary loan staff for Washington County Library. If you've never been to the R.H.

MnLINK RFP Committee chooses OCLC

The MnLINK Gateway RFP (Request for Procurement) Committee successfully concluded its process by signing a contract with OCLC for their discovery and interlibrary loan solutions on July 2, 2015.

Minitex Public Library Node Meeting 2015

Registration has opened for the annual Minitex Public Library Node Meeting. This meeting involves the Minnesota public libraries authorized by the Minnesota State Library to send interlibrary loan requests directly to the Minitex Office. It is geared toward front-line interlibrary loan staff.

Traverse des Sioux Implements NCIP with Innovative Sierra

The Traverse des Sioux (TdS) Library Cooperative was an innovator with NCIP (NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol) and the integration it allows between TdS's automation system and the MnLINK Gateway's program VDX.

MnLINK Gateway RFP Update

The MnLINK Gateway RFP was released on Friday, October 31, 2014. This is a major milestone in the project as the last RFP was written over ten years ago and did not include a search function.