Minitex commissioned a poem by Minneapolis artist Diver Van Avery to commemorate the 50th anniversary during National Poetry Month. The poem was written on a typewriter for the occasion on April 30, 2021.
This issue is the 1982/1983 Minitex status report and includes background information, program updates, Document Delivery request and participants graph, Reference request graph, MULS Publications bar chart, a list of Minitex participating libraries, a history of Minitex activities in a table, and the list of Minitex Advisory Council members.
This issue is the 1981/1982 Minitex status report and includes background information, program updates, a program history appendix in table form, details Minitex Document Delivery statistics, a map of participants, financial statements, activity level graphs, and a list of Minitex participating libraries.
This issue includes the following articles: Bibliographic and Physical Resource Sharing in Minitex; Access to Minitex Libraries in Bibliographic Databases; Libraries and the 1980 Census; Minitex OCLC AACR2 Regional Meetings; OCLC'S Name-Address Directory; Minitex at Texas Instruments Symposium; Ramsey County Begins OCLC Acquisitions Subsystem Evaluation; ARL Adopts Plan for Improving Access to Microforms; Database Workshops; People; Minitex Directory Changes; Minnesota Statutes Index Errata Available; Everyone's Guide to the Whole Library.
This issue includes the following articles: Serials Collections in a Network Environment; OCLC Converts Data Base to AACR 2 Form; Quality Control Activities at OCLC; MPR Programs Available From Audio Archives; New Duluth Public Library Open; People/Minitex Directory; Serial Collection Management: A Bibliography.
This issue includes the following articles: Minitex: A Status Report; WILS-WLC: Library Cooperation in Wisconsin; South Dakota Health Sciences Library Consortium: Multi-Type Resource Sharing; OCLC Names New President; OCLC Users Council Annual Report Summary; OCLC Development Schedule; OCLC Users and AACR2 Questions; OCLC System Down While Converting to AACR2; OCLC Participating Libraries; CRL Receives Two Ford Grants; MPLIC Designated as Patent Depository; COMCAT Education Project; Legal Reference Servives Committee Formed; Minitex Reference Service Notes; Telecommunications Change for Minitex; ""Everyone's Guide..."" For Winter Quarter; People; and New Minitex Participant.
This issue includes the following articles: Information Data Base Services; Three Services to Libraries; The History of Some Terminology; Preservation of Minnesota Newspapers at the Minnesota Historical Society; Minnesota State University Project for Automation of Library Systems (MSU/PALS): Planning for the Future; AACR2 in Minnesota; OCLC Use Increases; AACR 2 and OCLC; OCLC Search Retrieval Enhancements Soon to be Implemented; OCLC Users Council Elects Officers; Western Council Resource Sharing Planning Conference; GPO Named Center of Document Cataloging; St. Paul Public Library Initiates Computer Catalog System; People; New Coordinators Join Minitex Staff; Congressional Information Service Seminars; ""Everyone's Guide..."" Is Back Again.
This issue includes the following articles: Gustavus Library Endowment Fund; OCLC Internetwork Quality Control Council; Minnesota Theological Librarys Install Union COM Catalog; Plans Advance For Second ACRL Conference; The Tri-College University Library Consortium: A Decade of Growth; Minitex Reference; The CLIC COM Catalog; Windows to the Past: Minnesota County Atlases-A New Reference Tool; Reorganization of OCLC Symbol Displays; People; Minitex Library OCLC Sympols: A Directory; Olson Receives Piercy Award; Messenger Editor Leaves Minitex.
This issue includes the following articles: Technology, Work Assignments, and Staff Morale; St. Olaf College Part of Two Studies; Saint Paul Public Library's Newspaper Index Project; Symposium on the Future of the Liberal Arts College Library; Melsa Goes Online: Hennepin County's Assisted Reference Service; Thoughts on Resource Sharing; People; Celebrations; Reading on Networking; Online Bibliographic Training in Fargo; AACR2 Institute in Minneapolis; New Minitex Staff Member; Announcement of Minitex Position; OCLC Growth.
This issue includes the following articles: Bibliographic Instruction (proceedings from a workshop); COM Catalogs and Conversion Projects (from Ramsey County Public Library and Minneapolis Public Library); People; Minitex Workshop Speaker Participation Policy; Minitex/OCLC Mailings; Circulation Systems: Suggested Reading; A Circulation System With OCLC; OCLC Use in Minitex: Some Thoughts and Statistics; Minitex Courier; Regional Workshops for Catalogers: AACR2; New MULS Manual.
This issue includes the following articles: Resource Sharing and Interlibrary Loan; Minitex Document Delivery; Minitex Document Delivery Statistics 1978/79; WHCLIS Resolution on Networking; ALA Legislative Program; Reference Librarians: Save These Dates; Online Skills Development; Online Workshops Schedule; OCLC Acquisitions Subsystem; Ramsey County to Test OCLC Acquisitions Subsystem; Recommendation on use of OCLC-MARC Tapes; Iowa Fifth State in MULS.
This issue includes the following articles: The Uses of Online Databases; Using Online Techniques for Evaluation; Providing Services with Limited Resources; About the Database Directory; Codes of Vendors Supplying Online Services; Codes of Libraries Performing Online Searches; Directory of Online Subject Databases Searched in Minitex Libraries, 1979-1980; How to Use a Library; NEH Announces Challenge Grant Program; Bibliographic Instruction Workshop; and Happy Anniversary.
This issue includes the following articles: Planning and Library Cooperation; Reference Service Evaluation; New Advisory Committee; and a large section on OCLC and Library Automation. The OCLC and Library Automation section contains background on what OCLC is; a history of Minitex OCLC participation; cooperative cataloging in OCLC; first time use (FTU) of an OCLC record; how to become an OCLC participant; the OCLC interlibrary loan, serial control, and acquisitions subsystems; and a diretory of Minitex libraries on OCLC.
This issue includes the following articles: OCLC Users Council Meets in Columbus on June 4 and 5; Visitors; Minnesotans Publish; OCLN Memberships; Automation in Duluth; More Publishing; People on the Move; Liz Stroup Meets with Rug Group; South Dakota Union List of Serials; Gustavus Award Winner; Recent Publications of Interest; Reference Users Group Meets; Responsive Reference Service; and The "Not Available" Response to ILLRO's.
This issue includes the following articles: To Network or Not to Network Schools Face the Question; Networking Conference; Library Instruction for the College Undergraduate; Selective Bibliography for Library Instruction in Academe; Retrospective Conversion; OCLC/ILL Subsystem Training; EDUCOM Seminar; Rug Reference Resources Meeting; Automation, Codes and Standards in Technical Services and their Effect on Public Services; AACR2 Preconference; Theological Libraries Meeting; People in Minitex.
This issue includes the following articles: Minnesota Union List of Serials; New Minitex Manual; Five-Year Review of Copyight Law; Location Search Service-Codes Supplied; Publications to Notes; Online Workshops; Coming and Going; Resource Sharing Thoughts; TWX Sound Shield for Sale; Performance Evaluation in Academic Libraries; Celtic Library at College of St. Thomas; Grant Money for Two-Year Colleges; MLA Pre-Conferences Planned; Visitors; Networking Reading.
This is a special report of the OCLC Users Council by Minitex OCLC Representatives. Included are summaries on the economic impact of AACR2 on libraries and the OCLC Inter-Network Quality Control Council, as well a a directory of Minitex libraries on OCLC.
This special issue on AACR2 and the catalog includes information about the adoption of AACR2 and implications for cataloging procedures and practices. Minnesota librarians attended an institute in 1978 on "Closing the Catalog"; offered by LITA and a full summary of the event is included. This issue also contains a list of recently announced grants, RLIN (Research Libraries Group) replacing the former acronym of BALLOTS, and the new publication "The Role of the School Library Media Program in Networking."
Volume 5, number 11 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in December 1978. Topics include: minutes from the MLA midwinter conference business meeting, proposed statements for the 1979 MLA legislative platform, MLA subunit and division event announcements and summaries, 3M sponsorship to send members of the American Library Association (ALA) Junior Members Roundtable to ALA
Volume 5, number 10 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in November, 1978. Topics include: minutes from the October MLA Board meeting, volunteers sought for KTCA membership drive, new MLA membership forms, upcoming library community events, MLA subunit and division event announcements and summaries, suggestions for appointments to ALA committees requested, Louise Giles Minority Scholarship available, a British Isles library internship program, free copies of the USGPO's Publications Reference File available, announcemeent of an upcoming community college conference, an upcoming workshop about citizens and effective political power, findings from the ALA survey on libraries and reading, and a calendar of upcoming library community events.
This issue is the annual report for 1977-1978. Highlights include a new contract with South Dakota State Library and Minitex for sharing resources; increased Resource Sharing, the MULS 2nd edition publication; Bush Foundation grants to support OCLC participation' an increase in Back-Up Reference requests; a summary of copyright and reference training and meetings, and statistics (including a table).
This issue includes the following articles: OCLC Users Council; Minitex Brochure insert; Minitex Annual Meeting; OCLC Interlibrary Loan Subsystem Test; Serials Management Workshop; Farewell to Lois Upham; USOE Grant Deadlines; Academic Library Grant Program Announced; Positions (new library staff); Honors; Minitex Libraries on OCLC: A Directory; Minitex 'NLOC' Service; OCLC Codes for Minitex Libraries; Using OCLC to Verify Minitex ILL Requests; Directory of Minnesota Libraries; and Colleagues Publish.
Volume 5, number 9 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in October, 1978. Topics include: minutes from the September MLA Board meeting, MLA members asked to cast new ballots, MLA membership figures, an upcoming idea exchange, upcoming humanities planning meetings, job announcements, Academic and Research Division of MLA annual meeting speakers, results of postcard survey about Midwest Federation of Library Associations attendance by the membership, a registration form to attend an upcoming workshop on library service to teenagers, changes to the calendar "Educational Events," MLA members quoted in censorship Star Tribune article, an invitation to attend a talk by Henriette Avram from the Library of Congress, an insert of the quarterly publication Educational Events," a save the date for the MLA spring conference, changes to the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter meeting, proceedings of an ALA program on reference service statistics, a summary of the Minnesota Governor's Pre-White House Conference on Library and Information Services, MLA subunit and division event announcements and summaries, an upcoming book week program at the University of Minnesota, and a calendar of upcoming library community events.
Volume 5, number 8 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in September, 1978. Content includes minutes from the August MLA Board meeting, a save the date for the fall MLA conference business meeting, new faculty at the University of Minnesota Library School, an upcoming panel discussion on public library financing, copies of documents from the library forum, MLA committee, subunit, and division reports amd minutes, an announcement about the new MLA Paraprofessional Round Table (PALS), a call for Minnesota humanities commission award nominations, a new course offered on library services for the handicapped, an announcement about the upcoming American Library Association (ALA) Library and Information Technology Association institute, information about a new academic library program that will assist academic libraries conducting self-study programs, an advertisement for the MLA Technical Services Division pre-conference on trends in Acquisitions and Collection Development, a lilst of MLA members who hold American Library Association official positions, library job announcements, status of legislation of interest to librarians, an invitation to attend a showing of the film "The Speaker," the MLA Academic Library Division annual program announcement, an upcoming workshop on library services to teens, a call to serve on the MLA publications committee, an upcoming seminar on the issues and problems of evaluating reference services, new library books, directories, and resources, and a calendar of upcoming library events.
Volume 5, number 6 of the Minnesota Library Association (MLA) newsletter was published in June 1978. Content includes a summary of the 1978 MLA Annual Conference, an order form for MLA Lectio Mentem Corrumpit (Reading Corrupts the Mind) tshirts, a call for authors to write about the history and current state of Intellectual Freedom in Minnesota, a call for interest in a Library Storage Facilities program planned for the 1979 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, a meeting summary of the Minnestoa Coalition Against Censorship, an announcement of France H. Naftalin's nomination by President Carter to serve on the national Commission on Libraries and Information Service, an upcoming meeting on library paraprofessional benefits, an announcement about an upcoming Wisconsin Health Science Library Association meeting, "Minnesota to caucus at ALA," MLA committee, subunit, and division reports, the passing of Alice Stahl and a call to contribute to a fund in her memory, Minnesota library staff news, awards given at the 1978 MLA Annual Conference, new library reference books and resources, a call for feedback on MLA sponsoring job interviews at the next annual conference, a proposed model for Minnesota statewide library services, summaries of other regional and national library conferences, information about the MLA new member kits, Council on Library Resources fellowship program continuation and how to apply, "Librarians Put it all Together" tshirt order instructions, and an MLA calendar of events.