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ECRL and GRRL highlighted by MN Digital Library

mdl-logoRecently, the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) announced recent exciting contributions by both East Central Regional Library and Great River Regional Library. Congratulations to both in this noteworthy accomplishment!

ECRL: New contribution to Minnesota Reflections

According to Minnesota Digital Library News, The Kids Design Glass project was funded by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Fund and began with a summer reading program art contest. The contest was open to kids ages 5 to 10. One drawing was chosen from each of East Central Library’s 14 branches. The winning drawings were transformed into three-dimensional blown-glass sculptures by Anthony Michaud-Scorza of Cambridge, Minnesota. This project is fully documented in Minnesota Reflections with scans of the original 14 drawings, the artist statements, photographs of the sculpture, and a short video of each sculpture rotating on a turntable. View the collection here

GRRL: New MDL contributor

The Great River Regional Library (GRRL) was one of the participants in the recently completed MDL/DPLA Public Library Partnerships Project. According to Minnesota Digital Library News, “…we were looking for content on the history of libraries in Minnesota and GRRL came through with a project that included exterior and interior images of the St. Cloud Public Library’s original Carnegie building, built in 1902 and torn down in 1981. It was great to preserve these pictures of a “Lost Minnesota” structure. GRRL also contributed images of St. Cloud’s second library building, in use from 1979 to 2009, the Great River Regional Library Bookmobile, the Little Falls Public Library, and the Royalton Community Library. View the images here.

Two of the images were used in the DPLA’s online exhibition, “A History of US Public Libraries,” in the section on Carnegie libraries.”

 

 

 

Minnesota Digital Library-What’s New?

SCSU Library Dean Mark Vargas invites you to attend this free event in March!

MDLTopic:            Minnesota Digital Library- What’s New?

Presenter:    Molly Huber, Outreach Coordinator of the MDL

Date:               Friday, March 20, 2015,  from 11 am to noon

Place:             SCSU Library, Miller Center 122 (Auditorium)

 

Molly writes…..

How well do you know the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL)? Whether you are just discovering the project or have been a part of it since the beginning, there are many new things to learn about the MDL; what we have been doing, and how we can help you and the audiences you serve. MDL Outreach Coordinator Molly Huber will talk about the MDL and what changes have happened in the past two years, since we became a founding service hub of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). MDL’s work with the DPLA has opened up many new opportunities for us and the organizations we work with. We have new collections, new contributors, and new initiatives. Learn more, and see how you can be a part of it!

Driving directions to campus

SCSU Library
108 James W. Miller Learning Resources Center
Saint Cloud State University
720 Fourth Avenue South
Saint Cloud, Minnesota 56301-4498

 

 

 

Minnesota Digital Library: Call for Minnesota Reflections Project

This message comes to us from Minitex and the Minnesota Digital Library.


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Call for Minnesota Reflections Projects
Phase 11 is Open!

The Minnesota Digital Library is looking for contributors to Minnesota Reflections Phase 11. We are seeking photographs, postcards, maps, letters, documents, books, oral histories, film and more in both our usual topic areas and some special ones, such as:
• Temperance and Prohibition
• Civil War
• World War I
• World War II
• Vietnam War/Protests
• Health Pandemics (Influenza, Polio, Smallpox)
• WPA and CCC
• Ballparks and Baseball
• “Up North”: Cabins and Camping
• Roadside Attractions
• Resorts and Leisure
• Minnesota Landscapes
• Holidays and Celebrations

The full Call for Projects and the Application Form are available on the MDL website.

Take Action Now!

Phase 11 is open until our money is fully allocated or June 2015, whichever comes first. Propose a project or set up a consultation by contacting Outreach Coordinator Molly Huber at mollyh@umn.edu or 612-301-1329/800-462-5348. We look forward to hearing from you!

MN Digital Library Annual Meeting

Registration Open for Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) 12th Annual Meeting

Date & Location

MDLTuesday, June 3, 2014
Continuing Education & Conference Center
University of Minnesota – St. Paul Campus
1890 Buford Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
Twitter hashtag: #mdl2014

Registration Details

Fee: $25 – Register Now!

Keynote Presentation – Dan Cohen

Dan Cohen is the Founding Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), where he works to further the DPLA’s mission to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all. Prior to his tenure, Dan was the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. At the Center, Dan oversaw projects ranging from new publishing ventures (PressForward) to online collections (September 11 Digital Archive) to software for scholarship (the popular Zotero research tool). His books include Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (with Roy Rosenzweig) and Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith.

Dan was an inaugural recipient of the American Council of Learned Societies’ Digital Innovation Fellowship. In 2011 he received the Frederick G. Kilgour Award from the American Library Association for his work in digital humanities, and in 2012 he was named one of the top “tech innovators” in academia by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Schedule

Morning

  • Keynote Address: Dan Cohen
  • Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) Update

Afternoon Breakout Sessions

  • Creatively Visualizing Digital Collections
  • Enabling Use of Your Digital Collections
  • Minnesota Digital Library: Getting Involved
  • Digital Public Library of America: Minnesota’s Contribution
  • Digital Resources in Context: How MNopedia Puts Your Images to Work
  • Learning with Digital Content: Examples from around Minnesota

Learn More

Get the full meeting agenda and registration form on the website.

This conference is targeted for people and organizations interested in:

  • the development of the Minnesota Digital Library
  • learning more about digitization, preservation and collaboration
  • working with the Minnesota Digital Library
The Minnesota Digital Library is funded by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy Constitutional Amendment and is administered by Minitex. The Minnesota Digital Library is made possible by contributions of time and talent from many participating organizations. ©2014 

Minnesota Chosen for National Digital Library Project

The Minnesota Digital Library was chosen to be a key early contributor to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The groundbreaking project aims to make our nation’s collections of significance to the study of American life digital, searchable, and accessible to the public. Read the press release at MDL’s homepage: http://www.mndigital.org