2018 MLA Annual Conference

Join the Minnesota Digital Library's Metadata Librarian and Outreach Coordinator for a sampling of the current projects, services, and digital resources offered by the Minnesota Digital Library. Minnesota Digital Library is a leading force in digital project development in the upper Midwest. MDL served as one of the original six services hubs to the Digital Public Library of America; and continues to provide innovative leadership related to both our projects and metadata efforts. MDL serves as an emerging leader in the development of the Rights Statements Standardization project and is consistently recognized for our metadata standards work. The MDL staff members will provide an overview of the Minnesota Reflections Primary Source Set project, recent efforts with geospatial metadata, Minnesota Reflections' new discovery layer, the MDL Rights Statements Standardization Project, and the new equipment loan program Scan for Keeps. The overview will be combined with an analysis of how our work will change and grow in the near future, using the findings of recent analysis work such as the 2018 Minnesota Reflections Gap Analysis and our conversations with contributors on future planning. There will be time for live demonstrations of some of our projects and resources, as well as information on how the library community can get involved in the work we do. We also plan time for questions.