Save the Date!

Upper Midwest Ex Libris Users Group
Monday, October 26 1:00 PM – 4:30
Tuesday October 27, 2009 8:30 – 4:00

at
Neighborhood House at Wellstone Center
179 Robie Street East
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55107

Planning is underway for the Upper Midwest Regional Ex Libris Users Group meeting for Aleph and Voyager users in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin. This meeting will be held on October 26 and 27, 2009.

We are looking for presenters and topics. If you would like to present a session, or if you have ideas for topics, please contact one of the planning group members:

Becky Ringwelski e-ring@umn.edu
Ellen Kotrba ellen.kotrba@ndus.edu
Linda Allbee linda.allbee@ndus.edu
Mary Ann Greenwald mary.greenwald@mnsu.edu
Betsy Friesen b-frie@umn.edu
Nina Mentzel nmentzel@sdln.net
Carol Nelson c-nels@umn.edu

Registration and additional information will be sent out as the date approaches.

For more information and periodic updates, go to: https://www.minitex.umn.edu/events/c...ibris2009.aspx

Elly

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Elly Gustafson Held, Associate Administrator, Minitex
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus
15 Andersen Library
222 21st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Direct: (612) 624-1081
(612) 624-4002 / (800) 462-5348
Fax: 612-624-4508
Ellygh@umn.edu

Minitex Reference Training Webinar

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (Central Time)

Do you work with middle school students? If so, you won't want to miss this brief 60 minute webinar to find out what ELM databases will work for you and your students in grades 6-8. This session will cover middle school level resources, content, searching, and working with results, as well as special features that include homework help and tips on getting started and wrapping up research papers, reports, and presentations.

Who should attend?: Teachers, media specialists, library and school staff working with middle school (grades 6-8).

http://www.minitex.umn.edu/events/tr...binars.asp#234

MHS, an MDL partner, is working closely with the Minnesota Digital Library on digitization projects, relying on MDL experience with digitizing to standards and with providing access to digital collections through Minnesota Reflections (http://reflections.mndigital.org), and with training and educating organizations. The MDL has agreed to assist applicants in preparing projects and in applying for MHS legacy grant funds.

To inform people across the state of this grant project, MHS scheduled a series of workshops. Please consider attending one in your area. Spread the word. In addition to MHS staff, Marian Rengel, MDL Outreach Coordinator, will be on hand to answer questions about digitization projects.

Registration is required for all workshops. Contact Melinda Hutchinson (mailto:melinda.hutchinson@mnhs.org) at MHS to register

Workshop dates and locations:

Oct. 8 – 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. – Clearwater County Historical Society, Shevlin, MN (Highway 2, 7 miles east of Bagley)

Oct. 9 – 2 to 6 p.m. – Brown County Historical Society, 2 N. Broadway, New Ulm, MN

Oct. 19 – 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. – Stevens County Historical Society, 116 West Sixth St., Morris, MN

Oct. 20 – 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Preston Historical Society, Preston, MN

Oct. 27 – 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Minnesota Discovery Center (formerly Iron Range Research Center) 801 SW Highway 169, Chisholm, MN

Note: MHS is planning a second workshop in the Twin Cities metro area for mid-October. Watch for announcement of this workshop. The Oct. 5 workshop at Hennepin Public Library – Central Branch is full.

MHS has also scheduled two Webinars at which they will discuss the Minnesota Legacy History Grant program.

Webinar dates
Registration information will be available soon.
Oct. 12 – 10 a.m. to noon.

Oct. 14 – 2 p.m. –

MHS expects to have applications materials available to the public in early October. Watch their Minnesota Legacy History Grants web site and the Minnesota Digital Library Web site (http://www.mndigital.org/) for more information.

Digitization is one of 13 project areas within the Minnesota Legacy History Grants program. MHS has agreed to strongly recommend that applicants for digitization projects work directly with the Minnesota Digital Library’s Outreach Coordinator Marian Rengel (mrrengel@stcloudstate.edu).

In addition, the Minnesota Digital Library is preparing to solicit information from vendors and organizations across the state with the capacity and the experience to digitize historical collections. The MDL will gather information on a vendor or organization’s capacity to digitize to MDL standards, the range of the services, the costs for those services and their experience in digitizing rare objects. The MDL will then provide information on qualified digitization providers when organizations request that information.

For more information, contact Marian Rengel at mrrengel@stcloudstate.edu or by calling 320-308-5625.

Marian Rengel
Outreach Coordinator
Minnesota Digital Library Coalition
Learning Resources & Technology Services
Miller Center B41-9
St. Cloud State University
720 Fourth Avenue South
St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498
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/

COGI-tations -- A program of the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information

Minnesota’s Data Practices Law –
A Look to the Future

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Midtown Commons, 2324 University Ave West, St. Paul (just East of Raymond)
Women Venture meeting room
Free and convenient parking West of the Midtown Commons complex.

An open discussion of changing needs, many the result of technology. A chance to review the principles that undergird the state’s unique data practices law. Come prepared to share issues, experience, a vision of future challenges and practical suggestions for needed change.

Resource people, on hand to provide context and answer questions: John R. Finnegan, Sr, Jane Kirtley, Kirsten Clark, Don Gemberling, and Tom Scheck
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For details and background resources check the MnCOGI website.

COGI-tations are public forums sponsored by the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information.
All COGI-tations are free and open to the public.