A Matter of Facts Blog
A Matter of Facts: Government Shutdown
Americans have become more familiar with federal government shutdowns in the past year. We’ve experienced three shutdowns in 2018/2019 for a combined total of 17 days and counting, and no one can forget the 16-day shutdown in 2013. What makes the current shutdown different is that it’s a partial shutdown with only 25 percent of the federal government going unfunded. This blog post provides information and resources for better understanding the issues related to the shutdown.
From the Archivist Blog
U Libraries receives $44,000 for radio digitization
The University of Minnesota Libraries has received $44,000 for its digitization project: "University Radio at Risk: Digital Preservation Reformatting of Educational Radio." The grant is from the Council on Library and Information Resourc and will be used to preserve about 2,500 aging reel-to-reel audio recordings.
Blue Ox Review
Thanksgiving
Finish this sentence Thanksgiving is the third (whoops fourth, thank you to the many readers who emailed me) Thursday in ... That's right November. Thanksgiving is a United States holiday that celebrates... Yeah, I was kind of confused...
Health Sciences Libraries News
Yoga ON Ice: Commemorating a Frozen Wonderland
The Bio-Medical library is hosting the “Yoga ON Ice” by artists Nancy Chakrin and Laurie Ellis-Young as the next installment in its rotating Art@Bio-Med exhibit series.
Kirschner Cookbook Collection Blog
Minnesota cookie recipes and Somali American cookbook
Megan Kocher reviewed The Great Minnesota Cookie Book and Soo Fariista, a Somali American cookbook, on this installment of Read This Book from the University of Minnesota Libraries.
Land of 10,000 Workflows Blog
How I Work: Claire Stewart
Claire Stewart, Associate University Librarian for Research & Learning at the University Libraries, talks about the technology and tools that she uses in her daily life. Her favorite: Wunderlist. And she is on the verge of dumping her laptop entirely for a desktop in the office and an iPad 6th generation when she's mobile.
Archives and Special Collections News
Nina Bogdan’s archival research on Russian Emigrés to Northern California
Spotlight on Research: Our guest author Nina Bogdan was awarded the Immigration History Research Center Archives (IHRCA) Grant-in-Aid Award this year, and visited us for five days to explore the material in the IHRCA. This blog post explains Bogdan’s research project and how these sources relate to it. Bogdan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Arizona.