Minnesota Digital Library News & Events
Request for Qualifications
February 8, 2010The Minnesota Digital Library issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for digitization vendors and organizations capable of providing digitization services to historical, cultural heritage, and library organizations in Minnesota. The RFQ was designed to provide information to organizations across the state that hold cultural heritage collections and that are seeking to digitize those collections.
Organizations seeking digitization services: Vendors and organizations have completed their responses to the RFQ. Their replies are now available at our main RFQ page. You will also find a quick guide to the responses. Included are links to three documents to advise organizations on how to work with a vendor to digitization projects. We strongly encourage organizations to read these guides.
Respondents: The Request for Qualifications remains open for responses. Vendors and organizations interested in submitting responses should read the RFQ carefully then submit information to the MDL according to the guidelines and requests in the document.
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Request for Qualifications
(PDF; 105 KB)
Updated November 30, 2009.
Organizations seeking digitization services and people completing the RFQ may consult directly with the MDL's Outreach Coordinator for more information.
Phase 6 Project Proposals
May 27, 2009Applications are now open for projects for Phase 6 of the development of Minnesota Reflections. Get the application form and call for projects.
We will accept applications until we have committed all of our digitization funding. Our final deadline is March 26, 2010.
Submit applications early in the scanning year. Once we have accepted your application, we can schedule digitizing at a time convenient to you and our scanning centers.
Consult with Marian Rengel, MDL Outreach Coordinator, as you plan an application for a digitization project for Minnesota Reflections.
Digitization funds for Phase 6 come from a Library Services and Technology Act Grant from State Library Services, a unit of the Minnesota Department of Education.
Minnesota Reflections Collections in WorldCat
April 9, 2009
Type "Minnesota Reflections" and your institution name in the WorldCat.org search box.
In 2008, the Minnesota Digital Library began a project to add the content in Minnesota Reflections to the OCLC WorldCat database.
WorldCat is a database of more than 135 million bibliographic records used for cataloging, reference, and resource sharing in the region and throughout the world. WorldCat content is accessible through major search engines like Google and Yahoo! If a person begins a search in Google, they may be directed to the WorldCat.org Web site and from there can see which library or cultural heritage institution owns the item they are looking for.
By adding Minnesota Reflections content to WorldCat, institutions participating in Minnesota Reflections gain greater exposure to their digital collections.
Try searching for your collection by going to WorldCat.org, the public Web destination for finding content in the WorldCat database.
Type "Minnesota Reflections" and your institution name in the search box, or search for a known title. Each result that is displayed links you back to the record in Minnesota Reflections.
As of April 1, 2009, we have added 60 Minnesota Reflections participant collections to the WorldCat database (about 9,700 items) and are well over halfway done with the project. If you don't see your collection yet in WorldCat it will be added soon!
If you have questions about your Minnesota Reflections content in WorldCat, contact Marian Rengel, Outreach Coordinator, MDL.