[Mdl] News about Minnesota Reflections - Minnesota Digital Library

[Ewing, M Keith]

August 25, 2006

 

Marian Rengel, Learning Resources & Technology Services at St. Cloud State University, is now the outreach coordinator for the Minnesota Digital Library. She started in this new position Wednesday, August 23rd. She will work closely with the staff at MINITEX, which is now the administrative home of the Minnesota Digital Library. Marian will also work closely with the Steering Committee and Management Group, which advise on policy and operations. Marian will be the main contact person for questions about "Minnesota Reflections" and new projects underway during this fiscal year as we continue toward the development of the Minnesota Digital Library as a statewide resource. 

 

Marian will concentrate outreach efforts with current contributors to "Minnesota Reflections" and identify other libraries, historical societies, municipalities, and organizations that may be interested in completing digitization projects with the MDL. Her additional goals include assessing the status of existing digital projects currently unavailable to the general public. If you have suggestions or questions, please contact Marian at mrrengel at stcloudstate.edu.





The Minnesota Digital Library has several additional objectives in this year's project grant, including:

 

*	Maintaining and upgrading the MDL's technical infrastructure, including servers, applications, databases, storage back-up and recovery, and data that support the MDL. 
*	Creating new products, such as curricular materials for teachers and students in grades 4-12, who use the Minnesota Digital Library to support history and social studies instruction to meet state and national teaching standards.  
*	Working with current and potential institutional and individual users of Minnesota Digital Library to better understand their needs and to plan the future of the MDL more precisely. 

 

Our signature project, "Minnesota Reflections," has been growing since introduced in 2005. We now have:

*    11,208 images and documents in the database, more than doubling its size in the past year.

*    An updated interface, which features educational resources, and spotlights on the Minnesota Maps Online collection and the Minnesota Auto Trails collection, one of our new document collections.

 

Visit the Minnesota Digital Library and learn more at:

o      http://www.mndigital.org/news_events/news_events.htm#educators

o      http://reflections.mndigital.org/

 

MINITEX is now the fiscal home of the Minnesota Digital Library and is administering a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, awarded by the Minnesota State Library Services (a division of the Minnesota Department of Education), to continue the work of developing the Minnesota Digital Library. 

 

 

 

Bill DeJohn, Director

MINITEX Library Information Network

University of Minnesota

15 Andersen Library

222 21st Avenue South

Minneapolis, MN 55455-0439

Ph. 612.624.2839

Fax 612.624.4508

Email: w-dejo at umn.edu

Web: www.minitex.umn.edu

           www.elm4you.org

           www.mnlink.org

           www.mndigital.org/

 

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