Past Events

The Minnesota Digital Library, Minnesota Reflections, and Digitizing Your Collections

Marian Rengel, Minnesota Digital Library Outreach Coordinator. Presented December 8, 2011.

An informational session on the hows and whys of contributing to Minnesota Reflections, an online collection of more than 85,000 photographs, maps, journals, documents and sound recordings contributed by more than 125 Minnesota cultural heritage organizations.

Learn how to get started and how to plan new projects to digitize photos, documents, sound, and more. You will also learn about the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) and the benefits of collaborating with the MDL on your digital projects. You will learn about funding possibilities and options. This presentation will help you decide if the time is right for your institution to begin a digital project with the Minnesota Digital Library.

The session is for staff of any Minnesota library, historical society, archive, museum, or other type of cultural heritage institution interested in starting a digital project or any organization that has worked with the Minnesota Digital Library and is interested in doing another project.

The Minnesota Digital Library is now accepting applications for projects for Phase 8 of the development of Minnesota Reflections. We will accept applications through April 30, 2012, or until we have committed all of our digitization funding.

Viewing Requirements

If you have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player installed on your computer, click on the link above to view the tutorial.

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Using the New Minnesota Reflections

Marian Rengel, Minnesota Digital Library Outreach Coordinator. Presented November 22, 2011.

As of November 1, 2011, Minnesota Reflections has a new look! The software that runs Minnesota Reflections (CONTENTdm) was upgraded to the latest version. This upgrade contains many new features, making Minnesota Reflections easier to navigate for end users with features such as:

  • New Minnesota Reflections Homepage
  • New Collection Landing Pages
  • Searching all of Minnesota Reflections or within specific Collections
  • Browsing by Collection and Topic
  • New Image Viewer
  • New features like tagging, commenting, and RSS feeds
  • Newspapers in Minnesota Reflections

See what's changed (or not changed) in Minnesota Reflections! This session was designed for staff of organizations that contribute to Minnesota Reflections, library staff and school media specialists, or any other organization that makes use of Minnesota Reflections as a teaching or research tool.

Viewing Requirements

If you have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player installed on your computer, click on the link above to view the tutorial.

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Moving Forward: New Guidelines for Contributors to Minnesota Reflections

Greta Bahnemann, Minnesota Digital Library Metadata Coordinator. Presented February 3, 2011.

Join Greta Bahnemann, Metadata Coordinator for the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL), for an online presentation that will introduce recent changes to the MDL's Minnesota Reflections Metadata Guidelines. The newly revised Guidelines provide detailed instructions for contributing organizations in the creation of descriptive, administrative, and technical metadata for digital projects within the Minnesota Digital Library's Minnesota Reflections database.

Ms. Bahnemann will walk attendees through the new Guidelines and share advice on creating clear, concise, and consistent metadata that will help people effectively use Minnesota Reflections.

Viewing Requirements

If you have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player installed on your computer, click on the link above to view the tutorial.

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From Pixels to Projects: An Introduction to Digitization Concepts

Jason Roy, University of Minnesota. Presented May 2009.

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