Minnesota Digital Library 9th Annual Meeting

Michelle Gallinger presenting the keynote address.

Michelle Gallinger presenting the keynote about the National Digital Information Infrastructure & Preservation Program.

More than 150 staff from libraries and cultural heritage institutions attended the full-day 9th Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL), which was held on June 6, 2011. Topics discussed included the MDL digital preservation project, planning different types of Minnesota Reflections projects, new teacher guides for Minnesota Reflections, copyright, metadata, and moving newspaper access online.

Keynote Address

Michelle Gallinger, Digital Programs Coordinator for the Library of Congress, gave the keynote address. She discussed the National Digital Information Infrastructure & Preservation Program, which is part of the larger National Digital Stewardship Alliance.

Presentations

MDL and Digital Preservation: Prototype and Progress
A handout by Eric Celeste, MDL consultant, who provided a description and review of the lessons learned during the Fall 2010 prototype digital preservation project that the MDL conducted with HathiTrust to demonstrate the feasibility of the long-term preservation of digital images.

Moving Newspaper Access to a Digital Platform

  • Moving Newspaper Access to a Digital Platform Adobe PDF Icon (PDF; 1.5 MB)
    A slide presentation by Jason Roy, University of Minnesota Digital Library Services, which updates the community on the work of a project by the MDL and the Minnesota Historical Society to bring newspaper content into the Minnesota Digital Library.
  • Turning the Page: New Access Strategies for Historical News Content Adobe PDF Icon (PDF; 2.0 MB)
    A slide presentation by Jane Wong, Noah Skogerboe, and Sara Quimby, Minnesota Historical Society staff, on their project to work with organizations across the state to both digitize print newspapers and to provide access to newspapers that are increasingly publishing their news online.
Presenters from the session Teacher Guides to Minnesota Reflections: An Outreach Initiative.

Group photograph of the presenters from the session Teacher Guides to Minnesota Reflections: An Outreach Initiative. L to R: Marian Rengel, Sue Tabaka-Kritzeck, Michael Berkowski, Mary Alice Anderson, Ann Woell.

Teacher Guides to Minnesota Reflections: An Outreach Initiative
The outline of the session presented by MDL Outreach Coordinator Marian Rengel, members of the Teacher Guide Advisory Group, and technology advisers from Minitex on a project to create guides into Minnesota Reflections for K-12 teachers.

Metadata in Minnesota Reflections

Planning a Minnesota Reflections Project: Working with Vendors
Slide shows from Minnesota Digital Library contributing organizations that received Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund grants from the Minnesota Historical Society for digitization and access. St. Cloud State University Archives (Tom Steman), Macalester College Archives (Ellen Holt-Werle) and Minnesota State University, Mankato Archives (Daardi Sizemore) worked with outside vendors for the digitization services. All three projects were planned for and are included in Minnesota Reflections.

Moderator Keith Ewing introduces Barb Sommer, who is about to present a session.

At left: Moderator Keith Ewing introduces Barb Sommer, who is about to present the session Planning a Minnesota Reflections Project: Oral Histories.

Planning a Minnesota Reflections Project: Oral Histories
A slide presentation, including a list of resources, by oral history authority, Barb Sommer, discussing rights, ownership, access, transcripts, and other issues that can arise when planning an oral history digitization project.

Planning a Minnesota Reflections Project: A Show-and-Tell Presentation
A slide show by MDL Outreach Coordinator Marian Rengel highlighting the digitization technology used by the MDL, including their new rapid-capture scanner, large-format camera, flatbed scanners, and audio scanning equipment.