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Voting is Open!

MN Book Awards
Vote for Minnesota’s Top Book
Help pick the winner of the Book Awards Readers’ Choice Award
Sponsored by TwinCities.com and the Pioneer Press
Vote anytime during March 2008.
Finalists have been chosen, and now the Minnesota Book Awards invites you to vote for the Readers’ Choice Award. The winner of the Readers’ Choice Award will be tabulated by TwinCities.com and announced at the Book Awards gala on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Saint Paul.For gala tickets or information, call The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library at (651) 222-3242 or visit www.thefriends.org.If you aren’t able to join us at the gala, check back on April 13 for a listing of all of this year’s winners.
 
Particiapte. Here’s how:

  • Visit your local library or bookseller.
  • Read up on the 32 finalists in contention for the 20th annual Book Awards.
  • Pick your favorite book.
  • Vote!

To vote, go to http://www.twincities.com/bookawards and scroll to the bottom of the page for a list of finalists in each category and your opportunity to cast your vote.

 
    
Please be sure to read the complete list of finalists, presented alphabetically by category.
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Round 3 of MN Reflections

Help us add collections to Minnesota Reflections

The Minnesota Digital Library will accept applications for digitization projects until March 28, 2008. You may submit your applications anytime before then. Projects are to digitize original photos, negatives, artwork, letters, journals, documents and maps.We spend our grant dollars to do the digitization work. Contributing organizations choose the projects and complete applications. Once our digitization work is complete, the contributors then fill in an Excel spreadsheet with information on each item (metadata work).Any organization that holds historic objects and is interested in doing a project should contact Marian Rengel, Minnesota Digital Library outreach coordinator, very soon to talk over the details. (mrrengel@stcloudstate.edu; 320-308-5625)In Rounds 1 and 2, conducted since August, the MDL committed to digitizing 1,690 photos, 18,770 document pages, and 1,009 maps. These projects, along with transcriptions for many of the documents, will spend 80 percent of our grant dollars. We still have ample funding for large and small projects.Our call for project proposals, which describes what we are looking for this year and which contains the application, is available at
http://www.mndigital.org/news_events/news_events.htm#phase4proposals

Marian Rengel
Outreach Coordinator
Minnesota Digital Library Coalition
St. Cloud State University
Office (320) 308-5625
Fax (320) 308-4778 (shared)Visit the Minnesota Digital Library’s collection site at http://reflections.mndigital.org/ and our home at http://www.mndigital.org/

 

Academic, Public, School Media Specialist, Special

23 Things on a Stick is Live!

23 Things on a Stick is Live! It is official! The 23 Things on a Stick: A Library Learning 2.0 Program is now open for registration. Technically, registration is open until February 15th, but why wait? Register today to begin exploring  these 2.0 activities in as little as 15 minutes per day. We guarantee that your confidence level will increase with the accomplishment of each Thing. Be prepared to feel like some of this is play, which is OK! Go now to http://23thingsonastick.blogspot.com Have fun exploring,

Patricia-