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1. Bill from R.D. Church, Redwood Falls, Minnesota

Creator:
Church, R.D.
Date Created:
8/11/1904
Description:
Statement from R.D. Church, architect, asking for payment from the Redwood Falls Public Library Board, for inspection trip to check the building progress on the library site, Redwood Falls, Minnesota, $20.00.
Contributing Institution:
Redwood Falls Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Receipts (financial records)

2. Letter from R.D. Church, Redwood Falls, Minnesota

Creator:
Church, R.D.
Date Created:
7/20/1904
Description:
Invoice from R.D. Church, architect, to Julius C. Schmahl, president of the Redwood Falls Library Board, concerning his visit to check progress of building the Redwood Falls Public Library, Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Redwood Falls Public Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Receipts (financial records)

3. 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

4. "The Hottest Coon in Dixie" theater program, Bijou Opera House, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Bijou Opera House
Date Created:
4/15/1900
Description:
Theater program for a performance at the Bijou Opera House. Program includes advertisements for dozens of local businesses in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Contributing Institution:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections Library
Type:
Text
Format:
Programs

5. Maintenance staff posing with lawn mowers, Theodore Wirth Parkway, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Date Created:
2023-06-27
Description:
Park Board Asset Management staff posing with lawn mowers at North 26th Avenue and Theodore Wirth Parkway, Minneapolis, Minnesota. This photograph recreates an earlier image of grass mowers working in a Minneapolis park.
Contributing Institution:
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
Type:
Still Image
Format:
Color photographs

6. Interview with Dan Keyler, Whitewater State Park Oral History Project, Shorewood, Minnesota

Creator:
Keyler, Dan
Date Created:
2021-08-13
Description:
Dan Keyler is a retired Toxicologist for Hennepin County Medical Center and an expert on timber rattlesnake venom. He shares about his pathway to becoming fascinated by rattlesnakes and some of the common misconceptions about these snakes. The Whitewater State Park Oral History project began in 2017 to commemorate the Centennial Anniversary of the State Park.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Interview with Keith Ewing, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Ewing, M. Keith
Date Created:
2019-12-18
Description:
Keith Ewing, Coordinator of Library Systems & Digital Services at St. Cloud State University, retired in July 2017. Graduating with an MLS in 1979 from University of Texas at Austin, Ewing went on to work at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration, and in system and digital services roles at St. Cloud State University. In his interview, Keith disccusses internet and digital library technology in libraries, the inception of the Minnesota Digital Library, work on the first Minitex MEIR task force, the building of a new library at St. Cloud State University, mentors, and dinner with Ray Bradbury. This interview includes an audio recording and full transcript.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

11. Interview with Ruth Dukelow, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Dukelow, Ruth H.
Date Created:
2019-12-17
Description:
Ruth Dukelow retired as Director of CLIC (Cooperating Libraries in Consortium) in June 2019. Ruth Dukelow discusses her career as a librarian and director at libraries and consortia in Pennsylvania, Washington DC, North Carolina, Michigan, and Minnesota, culminating in her role as executive director of the CLIC Library System in the Twin Cities. Dukelow also mentions working with fellow OCLC network librarians from Minitex when she was at the Michigan Library Consortium such as Kathy Drozd, Becky Ringwelski, Mary Parker, and Carla Dewey Urban and traveling to OCLC headquarters for network meeting in the 1990s, and a memorable migration of the CLIC shared catalog to a next-generation library management system. This interview includes an audio recording, transcript, and photograph of the interviewee.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

12. Interview with Barbara Misselt, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Misselt, Barbara
Date Created:
2019-11-07
Description:
Barbara Misselt led the East Central Regional Library as Library System Director for 9 years, retiring April 1, 2017. Misselt's first library job was at the Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota, before moving to SELCO (Southeastern Libraries Cooperating) in Rochester, Minnesota, and ending her career at East Central Regional Library in Cambridge, Minnesota. In the interview, she discusses her connection to Minitex, working with former Minitex Director Bill DeJohn, Becky Ringwelski (former Associate Director of Minitex for Resource Sharing), Kathy Drozd (former Assistant Director for Delivery), and other influential colleagues from Minnesota libraries and the State Library. This interview includes an audio recording and full transcript.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

13. Interview with Wendy Pradt Lougee, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Lougee, Wendy Pradt
Date Created:
2019-07-09
Description:
Wendy Pradt Lougee was the University Librarian and Dean of Libraries at the University of Minnesota from 2002-2020. Prior to that role, over a period of 20 years, she held several positions at the University of Michigan, including Director of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library and Associate Director of the University Library for Digital Library Services. In this interview, Lougee traces her career path in Academic Libraries up to her latest role as University Librarian at the University of Minnesota. While at the University of Michigan Lougee put together the team that birthed JSTOR in the mid-1990s, a digital platform for accessing academic journals, which led to launching several other new digital projects and publishing projects. Lougee discusses the national organizations and boards she served on over the course of her career such as the Research Libraries Group, the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources, the Association of Research Libraries, HathiTrust, and the Big Ten Academic Alliance. Other topics discussed include: working with Minitex; colleagues that made an impact on Lougee's work such as Dick Dougherty, Dan Atkins, Paul Courant, and Governor Elmer Andersen; the awarding of the National Medal for Libraries and Museums to the University of Minnesota Libraries; and a few future library environment forecasts. This interview also includes an audio recording, transcript, and photograph of the interviewee.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

14. Interview with Valerie Horton, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Horton, Valerie
Date Created:
2019-05-16
Description:
Valerie Horton retired from her position as the director of Minitex in 2019. In this interview, she discusses her professional career beginning as a systems librarian at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She also worked as a systems librarian at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces and in the islands of Trinidad and Tobago assisting with early library automation. Her career highlights included serving as library director at Colorado Mesa University, Colorado Library Consortium, and Minitex (2014-2019). Horton discusses some initiatives from her time at Minitex, including the Minnesota Digital Library, Ebooks Minnesota, SimplyE, and the Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

15. Interview with John T. Butler, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Butler, John T.
Date Created:
2019-02-18
Description:
John T. Butler has served as the Associate University Librarian for Data and Technology at the University of Minnesota since 2008. Prior to that role, he was the inaugural Director of the University of Minnesota's Digital Library Development Lab, and also led the Science and Engineering Library at the University of Minnesota. In the interview, Butler discusses one of his earliest experiences working in libraries as a student for Minitex and other experiences leading up to his current role at the University of Minnesota libraries. Other topics discussed include: the development of the Minnesota Digital Library and the Minnesota Legacy Amendment funding; early mentors and influential colleagues Hank Rowan (Professor of Art, University of Minnesota), Susan Ardi (Engineering Librarian, University of Texas at Austin), Bill DeJohn, and Wendy Lougee; and his engagement with the Digital Public Library of America and HathiTrust. This interview also includes an audio recording, transcript, and photograph of the interviewee.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

16. Interview with Ken Behringer, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Behringer, Ken
Date Created:
2019-02-06
Description:
Ken Behringer retired from the Metropolitan Library Services Agency (MELSA), a regional public library system that serves the libraries in the seven-county Twin City metro area, in 2019. His career included becoming the first Executive Director of MNLINK, serving as the Director of the Dakota County Library and the Great River Regional Libraries, and library positions in Wyoming and the North Dakota State Library. In this interview, he describes the development of library services in Minnesota that he observed from various points in his career and as a lifelong library user. Behringer often found his role to be in working with local county decisionmakers as well as the state legislature to secure funding for libraries. That led to impacts on budgeting for improved library services, technological advances, and the development of regional and state-wide library systems that have strengthened the library community in the state. He also discusses the colleagues who have been influential throughout his career including Bill Asp, Bill DeJohn, Charlene Mason, Roseanne Byrne, and Mike Turbes. This interview also includes an audio recording, transcript, and photograph of the interviewee.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

17. Interview with Joan Roca, Minitex Oral History Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Roca, Joan
Date Created:
2018-07-22
Description:
Joan Roca retired from his role as Dean of Library Services at Minnesota State University Mankato in 2018. In this interview, he discusses his professional history, including his role and recollections of the development of the PALS software, his work on MNLINK systems integration committee, and as a member of other library professional committees. Joan credits several of his mentors -- Dale Carrison, Sylverna Ford, Bill DeJohn, Mary Parker, Keith Ewing, Tom Shaughnessy, and Wendy Lougee -- as having positive and lasting impacts on his career trajectory. This interview also includes an audio recording, transcript, and photograph of the interviewee.
Contributing Institution:
Minitex
Type:
Sound Recording Nonmusical
Format:
Oral histories

18. Kvennahlaup flyer, June 18, 2017, Icelandic Hekla Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Date Created:
2017-06
Description:
Invitation to the Icelandic Kvennahlaup (women's walk) to be held on June 18, 2017 at Bryant Lake Park, Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Initially held in Iceland, this event is held world-wide, promoting women's fitness.
Contributing Institution:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Type:
Text
Format:
Announcements

19. Board Meeting Minutes, May 2017, Hekla Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Date Created:
2017-05
Description:
May 2017 Board Meeting Minutes of the Icelandic Hekla Club. Subjects discussed include: Samkoma report, Snorri West, Val Bjornson Icelandic Student Exchange donation, Icelandic Camp donation, 2017-2018 slate of officers
Contributing Institution:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Type:
Text
Format:
Minutes (administrative records)

20. Annual Meeting Minutes, May 2017, Hekla Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Date Created:
2017-05
Description:
May 2017 Annual Membership Meeting minutes of the Icelandic Hekla Club. Subjects discussed include: Treasurer's report, Sunshine Committee report, Samkoma report, Icelandic Camp donation, June picnic, Kvennahlaup women's walk, election of officers, upcoming events
Contributing Institution:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Type:
Text
Format:
Minutes (administrative records)

21. Samkoma program, April 23, 2017, Icelandic Hekla Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Date Created:
2017-04
Description:
Program for Icelandic Hekla Club Samkoma on April 23, 2017 at Minneapolic Woman's Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Information includes the days activities and speakers.
Contributing Institution:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Type:
Text
Format:
Programs

22. Samkoma invitation, April 23, 2017, Icelandic Hekla Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Date Created:
2017-04
Description:
Samkoma (Coming Together) invitation from the Icelandic Hekla Club for April 23, 2017 to be held at the Minneapolis Woman's Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Included are the location, date/time, speakers, raffle information
Contributing Institution:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Type:
Text
Format:
Invitations

23. Raffle ticket, April 23, 2017, Icelandic Hekla Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Date Created:
2017-04
Description:
Icelandic Hekla Club Samkoma ticket for Samkoma held on April 23, 2017 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Type:
Text
Format:
Tickets

24. Iceland Day Proclamation, April 23, 2017, Icelandic Hekla Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Date Created:
2017-04
Description:
Proclamation by Governor Mark Dayton of Iceland Day in honor of the Icelandic Hekla Club's Samkoma marked on April 23, 2017 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Contributing Institution:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Type:
Text
Format:
Announcements

25. Meeting Minutes, March 2017, Icelandic Hekla Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Creator:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Date Created:
2017-03
Description:
March 2017 Membership Meeting minutes of the Icelandic Hekla Club. Subjects discussed include: Treasurer's report, Sunshine Committee report, Samkoma planning, Tala islensku, Nordic Reads, Sagas book club, Club logo updated
Contributing Institution:
Icelandic Hekla Club
Type:
Text
Format:
Minutes (administrative records)
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