We know our members, especially in schools, are using ELM resources and are big fans. We are also big fans!!

And now there is a new URL: elibrarymn.org . Lots of new features and resources are in there as well, so check it out and be sure to share that with your teachers and students.

Here is an excerpt from “The new ELM portal is here!” by Carla Pfahl. Click through that link to get all the info!

“The new ELM portal is now live and accessible via the new url, elibrarymn.org. The purpose of the new portal was to reduce the number of clicks it took to get to needed resources. Keeping the focus for the portal as a discovery tool helped achieve that goal. We have retained many of the well-used features from the old portal in the new environment such as Find a Publication, Topic Search, and the Grade Level break out of appropriate databases (under the Student Research button).

As mentioned in an earlier post, we have updated the entire ELM portfolio as well. We have a new name, eLibraryMN (same abbreviation), that reflects modern-day language and is in line with the naming scheme of other Minitex programs, a new logo, and new color palette.

Support for elm4you
We will continue to support the old ELM portal through this school year to allow for as little disruption as possible. The new url, elibrarymn.org, will direct to the new portal and the link, elm4you.org, will point to the old portal. On the old portal we will have a button to Try out the New Portal!

Database Links
If you have links on your website to ELM resources via elm4you.org, please note that we have changed the domain and URL used to access them. The resources have a new URL beginning with “https://content.elibrarymn.org” – if you have any questions about this change or need assistance updating your links, please contact us! We have created a guide that explains linking here.

Featured Resources
We can now highlight various resources in our suite by tagging them as a Featured Resource. This will allow us to identify popular as well as lesser-used resources for people to try out and explore a little deeper than they may otherwise.

ELM Learning Center
We have completely overhauled the ELM Learning Center with information for librarians supporting access to ELM resources. The database guides and tutorials have been updated as well. “