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1. Kathy Drozd and Sarah Anderson at the Minnesota State Fair table, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
8/27/2014
Description:
MELSA Read & Ride Day at the 2014 Minnesota State Fair. Kathy Drozd and Sarah Anderson at the Minitex table promoting ELM and Minnesota Reflections.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

2. Sara Ring (Minitex Digital Initiatives and Metadata Education) instructing at Minitex offices, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Halbritter, Jayme
Date Created:
6/28/2007
Description:
Sara Ring conducting a training session in Anderson Library.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

3. Minitex 50th Anniversary Poem: All we have to offer

Creator:
Van Avery, Diver
Date Created:
2021-04-30
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Poems

4. Minitex 50th Anniversary crowler, Minitex, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Bent Paddle Brewing, Duluth, Minnesota
Date Created:
2021
Description:
A gift to the Minitex staff in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the funding of Minitex in 1971. The custom created Minitex crowler was made at Bent Paddle Brewing in Duluth, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Three Dimensional Object
Format:
Aluminum cans

5. Maggie Snow, Minitex Director

Date Created:
2020
Description:
Portrait of Maggie Snow, Minitex Director 2020 - present.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

6. Anne Hatinen and Rita Baladad on a Minitex site visit to Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota

Date Created:
2018
Description:
Anne Hatinen and Rita Baladad on a Minitex site visit to Carleton College in Northfield.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

7. Sarah Anderson, 2017 Minnesota State Fair Read and Ride Day, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
2017
Description:
Sarah Anderson (Minitex IT) posing with the frame used to promote Ebooks Minnesota at Read and Ride Day at the State Fair, 2017.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

8. Minitex staff celebrate the launch of Ebooks Minnesota with cake, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
2016-02-09
Description:
Valerie Horton, (Minitex Director, 2013-2019), with Scott Hreha, Nick Banitt, and Anne Hatinen in Elmer Andersen Library celebrating the launch of Ebooks Minnesota in February of 2016.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

9. Scan for Keeps event at Northtown Public Library, Blaine, Minnesota

Date Created:
2015-11-21
Description:
Staff from Minitex and the Minnesota Digital Library at a Scan for Keeps event. From left to right: Jolie Graybill, Carla Urban, Greta Bahnemann, and Elizabeth Baus in front of the Northtown Library. Scan for Keeps is a program developed by the Minnesota Digital Library for the purpose of loaning digitization kits for community scanning events. Kits are available for libraries, historical societies, and other organizations to encourage community engagement and foster preservation education.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

10. Exterior view of Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
2015-10-07
Description:
Exterior view of Andersen Library, showing a detailed view of the building's sign.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

11. Minitex staff in Elmer Andersen Library atrium, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
2014-12-16
Description:
Minitex staff gather in the atrium of Elmer Andersen Library for a group photo, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Back row, left to right: Tim McCluske, Matt Lee, Sara Ring, Bob Francis, Scott Hreha, Paul Swanson, Terry Beseman, Kyle Triska, Anne Hatinen. 3rd row, left to right: Michelle Penna, Jared LaBounty, Bob Fredrickson, Carla Urban, Beth Chekola, Adam Johnson, Obinnaya Oji, Agnes Lee, Sally Dinsmore, Jennifer Hootman, Tim Peters, Mary Garcia. 2nd row, left to right: Beth Staats; Valerie Horton; Carla Pfahl; Molly Huber, Nicole Masika, Joy Knoll, LaReina Adams, Kate Brownrigg, Sarah Anderson, Dana Kocienda, Jolie Graybill, Becky Ringwelski. Front row, left to right: Joan Wollenberg, Tammi Halverson, Greta Bahnemann, Mary Parker, Rita Baladad, Nick Banitt, Chau Nguyen. Seated left to right: Matt Niehoff, Link Swanson.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

12. Tim Peters tapes up 3M Tattle Tape boxes for shipping, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
2014-02-18
Description:
Tim Peters (Minitex Cooperative Purchasing) tapes up 3M boxes in the Minitex delivery area of Andersen Library.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

13. Minitex supplies in the loading dock, Andersen Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
2014-02-18
Description:
Minitex supplies from 3M in the loading dock. Minitex works with 3M and other library product vendors to offer discounted pricing for libraries.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

14. Group photograph at Bill DeJohn's retirement celebration, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
2012-01-11
Description:
From left to right: Tom Shaughnessy (University of Minnesota Libraries Director, 1989-2002), Kathi DeJohn, Wendy Lougee (University of Minnesota Libraries Director 2002-2020), and Bill DeJohn (Minitex Director, 1984-2012).
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

15. Ruth Dukelow and Mary Parker, Minitex MnLINK Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
2012
Description:
Left to right: Ruth Dukelow (CLIC Director, 2012 - 2019) and Mary Parker (Minitex Associate Director for Reference, 1989 - 2012) at the Minitex MnLINK Conference in 2012.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

16. COMPAQ computer on display at Andersen Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
2011-12-02
Description:
COMPAQ computer on display in Elmer Andersen Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota at an open house staff event.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

17. Beth Staats and Mark Wilhelmi staff the Minitex 40th Anniversary booth, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
2011-10-13
Description:
Beth Staats and Mark Wilhelmi staff the booth at the 2011 Minnesota Library Association Annual Conference, celebrating Minitex's 40th birthday at DECC in Duluth, MN.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

18. Minitex staff at the 40th Anniversary booth, Duluth, Minnesota

Date Created:
2011-10-12
Description:
Carla Dewey Urban and Becky Ringwelski at the Minnesota Library Association Annual Conference. Celebrating 40 years of Minitex with an inflatable cake, Duluth, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

19. Bill DeJohn at the Minitex exhibit, 2011 Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
2011-08-31
Description:
Bill DeJohn, former director of Minitex, staffing the Minitex table at MELSA's Read & Ride Day at the Minnesota State Fair.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

20. Minnesota Library Access Center (MLAC) storage caverns, Andersen Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
2010 - 2020
Description:
In one of the Minnesota Library Access Center (MLAC) storage caverns. Tim McCluske, Minitex MLAC staff, is in the distance.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

21. Closeup of high density storage in the Minnesota Library Access Center (MLAC), Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
2010 - 2020
Description:
A close-up of high density storage of periodicals in the Minnesota Library Access Center (MLAC) in Andersen Library, University of Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

22. Group Portrait of Minitex Contract Cataloging and Bibliographic and Technical Services Staff, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
2009-06-03
Description:
Group photograph taken at the Ivy Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota for Edward Swanson's (Manager, Contract Cataloging) retirement lunch. Back row, left to right: Mark Wilhelmi, Carlos Portillo, Mark Ehlert, Sara Ring, Edward Swanson, Bill DeJohn (Director). Front row, left to right: Kay Beaudrie, Sue Zuriff, Renee Johnson, Virginia Dudley, Susanne Nevin, Sue Weigand, Carla Urban.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

23. Celebrating one year of AskMN with cake

Date Created:
2009-04-06
Description:
A cake to celebrate the 1st anniversary of the AskMN Virtual Reference Service, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

24. Carlos Portillo and Jennifer Hootman at the State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
2007-08-23
Description:
Carlos Portillo and Jennifer Hootman at the Minitex booth at the Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

25. Michael Berkowski and Obinnaya Oji discussing ILL statistics, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Halbritter, Jayme
Date Created:
2007-06-28
Description:
Michael Berkowski & Obinnaya Oji discuss Minitex document delivery statistics in the Minitex office in Andersen Library in 2007.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

26. Carlos Portillo and Virgina Dudley share a laugh, Andersen Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Halbritter, Jayme
Date Created:
2007-06-28
Description:
Carlos Portillo and Virginia Dudley in the former Minitex office at Elmer L. Andersen Library.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

27. Beth Chekola scans an article for interlibrary loan, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Halbritter, Jayme
Date Created:
2007-06-08
Description:
Beth Chekola scanning an article for interlibrary loan that goes out via email to a participating library in Elmer Andersen Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

28. Bill DeJohn receives the University of Minnesota President's Award, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
2007
Description:
Group photograph of Minitex Director Bill DeJohn (1984-2012) receiving the President's Award, with University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks (2002 - 2011) and Dr. Pete Magee.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

29. Minitex staff at the Try Cool Tools @ Your Library exhibit, Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
2005-09-02
Description:
Becky Ringwelski, Mark Wilhelmi, Sarah Anderson, and Joy Knoll at the Try Cool Tools @ Your Library exhibit at the Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

30. Minitex and library staff at the exhibit booth, Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
2005-09-01
Description:
Kevin Lian-Anderson, Jean Silverberg (Dakota County Library), and Sara Ring at the Try Cool Tools @ Your Library exhibit at the 2005 Minnesota State Fair.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

31. Mary Parker and Kristen Mastel at the 2005 Minnesota State Fair exhibit booth, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
2005
Description:
Mary Parker (Minitex Associate Director for Reference, 1989 - 2012) and Kristen Mastel at the Try Cool Tools @ Your Library booth at the 2005 Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, Minnesota
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

32. Beth Staats teaching a class for OLLI students, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
2004-01-22
Description:
Beth Staats teaching OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) students about eLibrary Minnesota in the basement of Wilson Library, University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

33. Yee Yang, Minitex Delivery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
2001
Description:
Minitex Delivery staff member Yee Yang getting interlibrary loan materials ready for delivery.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

34. Bill DeJohn pushing a tub in the sub-basement of Wilson Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
2000
Description:
Bill DeJohn (Minitex Director, 1984-2012) is pushing a tub from the sub-basement of Wilson Library to Minitex's new offices in Elmer Andersen Library.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

35. Bill DeJohn and Kathy Drozd attend the ground breaking for Elmer L. Andersen Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
2000
Description:
William DeJohn (Minitex Director, 1984-2012) and Kathy Drozd, Assistant Director, at the ground breaking for Elmer L. Andersen Library.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

36. Loading items from the MLAC cavern level conveyor belt

Date Created:
1999-02-22
Description:
Tubs of interlibrary loan items on the MLAC (Minnesota Library Access Center) cavern level conveyor belt await loading into the delivery van.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

37. Group portrait of Minitex interlibrary loan staff, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1995 - 1997
Description:
Back row, left to right; Dave Paulson, Joan Krey, Joan Wollenberg. Front row, unknown, Raquel Franklin, Kate O'Rourke, Ryan Kane, and Kathy Drozd.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

38. Kathy Drozd, Dave Paulson, and Alice Wilcox, St. Paul, Minnesota

Date Created:
1990 - 1999
Description:
From left to right: Kathy Drozd (Minitex Delivery), Dave Paulson (Minitex Resource Sharing), and Alice Wilcox (Minitex Director, 1969-1983).
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

39. Muriel J.(MJ) Rossman, Assistant Director for OCLC and Reference, 1986-1996, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1985
Description:
MJ Rossman, Assistant Director for OCLC and Reference, 1986-1996. MJ joined the Minitex staff in 1980 as Head of the Minitex Reference Service. She became Assistant Director in 1986 with responsibilities for directing the OCLC and Reference Units. Direction of the MULS Program was later added to her responsibilities. For a more complete description, see the Minitex Messenger, v. 14, no.1 (Aug. 28, 1996).
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

40. Minitex Messenger, Volume 8, Number 1, May 1984

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1984-05
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

41. Minitex Director Bill DeJohn at his office desk, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1984
Description:
Bill DeJohn at his desk during his first year as Minitex Director in Wilson Library.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

42. Minitex Messenger, Volume 7, Number 1, June 1983

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1983-06
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

43. Minitex Messenger, Volume 6, Number 5, March 1981

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1981-03
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

44. Minitex Messenger, Volume 6, Number 4, January 1981

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1981-01
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

45. Minitex Messenger, Volume 6, Number 3, November 1980

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1980-11
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

46. Minitex Messenger, Volume 6, Number 2, September 1980

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1980-09
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

47. Minitex Messenger, Volume 6, Number 1, July 1980

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1980-07
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

48. Minitex Messenger, Volume 5, Number 6, June 1980

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1980-06
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

49. Minitex Messenger, Volume 5, Number 5, April 1980

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1980-04
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

50. Minitex Messenger, Volume 5, Number 4, February 1980

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1980-02
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

51. Anita Branin, Minitex Associate Director for Document Delivery and MULS, 1980-1996, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1980 - 1996
Description:
Anita Anker (Branin) joined Minitex in 1981 working first with MULS. She later directed the Document Delivery program. She left Minitex July 24, 1996. For a more complete description, see the MINITEX Messenger, volume 14, number 1 (August 28, 1996).
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

52. Minitex Messenger, Volume 5, Number 3, December 1979

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1979-12
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

53. Minitex Messenger, Volume 5, Number 2, September 1979

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1979-09
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

54. Minitex Messenger, Volume 5, Number 1, August 1979

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1979-08
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

55. Minitex Messenger, Volume 4, Number 6, June 1979

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1979-06
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

56. Minitex Messenger, Volume 4, Number 5, April 1979

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1979-05
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

57. Minitex Messenger, Volume 4, Number 4, March 1979

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1979-03
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

58. Minitex Messenger, Volume 4, Number 3, January 1979

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1979-01
Description:
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."
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

59. Minnesota Interlibrary Telecommunications Exchange (Minitex) promotional video

Date Created:
1978-1980
Description:
A reproduction of a slide show and audio cassette created in the 1970's to educate library staff and to promote Minitex services. As part of the Minitex 50th Anniversary, the video was edited in 2021 by Carol Nelson with assistance from former Minitex staff Kathy Drozd, Dave Paulson, and Mark Eckes. Topics in the presentation include: Minitex resource sharing among libraries, the Minitex Union List of Serials, the technology used to communicate between libraries for resource sharing, the Minitex Reference and Information Network, Minitex workshops and training sessions, and how Minitex was initially funded.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Moving Image
Format:
Slides (photographs)

60. Minitex Messenger, Volume 4, Number 2, November 1978

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1978-11
Description:
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).
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

61. Minitex Messenger, Volume 4, Number 1, October 1978

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1978-10
Description:
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.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

62. Minitex Messenger, Volume 3, Number 6, June 1978

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1978-06
Description:
This special issue on online databases includes information about the types of data in databases, online database searching protocols, online search services in the U.S. and costs, a glossary of common database terms, a bibliography of online bibliographic services, the Minitex online search service and sample search request form, a directory of online database, subject databases search in Minitex libraries, and a summary of the Reference Users Group meeting.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

63. Minitex Messenger, Volume 3, Number 5, April 1978

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1978-05
Description:
This issue includes the following articles: Minitex-South Dakota Resource Sharing; Minnesota Libraries 1977 Report (for the ALA Yearbook, 1978 edition); Upcoming User Group Meetings; Library Directories; OCLC Governance; Bush II OCLC Installations; OCLC Directory Update; OCLC Training; Publications; TWX Communication; Verifying Citations from On-Line Searches; New Appointments--New Participants; Visitors to Minitex; Newsletter Mailing List; and CAB Abstracts On-Line Workshop.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

64. Minitex Messenger, Volume 3, Number 4, February 1978

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1978-02
Description:
This issue includes the following articles: Minitex Reference Services; Document Delivery Service; Back-Up Reference Service; Reference Services and Collection Development; Minitex Telephone and TWX Directory; Serving OCLC Users; Verifying ILL Requests on OCLC; Workshop on Workflow; Workshop on Library Instructions; Botany Journals; New Librarians, New Positions; New Participants; and Visitors to Minitex.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

65. Minitex Messenger, Volume 3, Number 3, December 1977

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1977-12
Description:
This special issue on copyright includes information about how the new U.S. Copyright Law affects Minitex Document Delivery, guidelines for records retention, information on library supplies for displaying copyright information, ALA and Minitex Interlibrary Loan Request forms, copyright payment mechanisms, and a bibliogrpahy of copyright law and libraries resources.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

66. Minitex Messenger, Volume 3, Number 2, November 1977

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1977-11
Description:
This issue includes the following articles: Bush Foundation Grants Funds for On-Line Cataloging and Data Base Development; Proposed Copyright Clearance Procedures for Photocopying in Libraries; New Librarians -- New Participants; New Minitex Directory, Annual Report; Reference and Interlibrary Loan Resources; Regional Meetings; Cataloging: Projections for the Future; Minitex Libraries on OCLC: A Directory; Recent Visitors to Minitex; New Edition of MULS, and On-Line User Workshops.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

67. Minitex Messenger, Volume 3, Number 1, August 1977

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1977-08
Description:
This issue includes includes an update on new library holdings symbols in OCLC and the final grant supported library to have their OCLC terminal installed, a summary of the Reference Users Group conference, authorization of the Minitex Advisory Committee, a summary of the OCLC cataloging users group, and the latest MULS (Minitex Union List of Serials) procedures and other updates.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

68. Mike O'Rourke holding Minitex boxes for shipping interlibrary loan items, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
1977 - 1978
Description:
Mike O'Rourke holding the painted boxes that Minitex staff drove down to the Greyhound bus station every day. Before using local couriers, the fastest way to transport interlibrary loan items to areas like Duluth was through Greyhound.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

69. Minitex Messenger, Volume 2, Number 1, March 1975

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1975-03
Description:
This issue includes information about the Minitex Continuing Education Program and week-long workshops for Reference Librarians, an overview of the newly initiated Minitex Reference Service, and an overview of the Minnesota Union List of Serials emerging Minitex program.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

70. Minitex Messenger, Volume 1, Number 1, May 1974

Creator:
Minitex
Date Created:
1974-05
Description:
This issue includes a diagram of the program, services, resources, and participating libraries. Each Minitex service is highlighted including the following: Communication Network, Document Delivery, Bibliographic Database, Collection Development, Information and Reference Network, Continuing Education, Online Bibliographic Searches, and Regional Sharing. Future plans for Minitex and participating library contacts are also included.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Text
Format:
Newsletters

71. Mark Eckes verifying information for sending an interlibrary loan request

Date Created:
1974
Description:
Mark Eckes looks up information for sending interlibrary loan requests to other participating libraries. Mark Eckes worked at Minitex from 1974 to 1984, managing the Minitex staff (payroll, vacation, sick leave) and was responsible for office purchasing and OCLC billing.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

72. Cecelia Boone working on MULS (Minnesota Union List of Serials)

Date Created:
1971 - 1978
Description:
Cecelia Boone working on MULS (Minnesota Union List of Serials) in Wilson Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs
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