Development and grants
Campaign for the Upper Midwest Jewish Archives While the Upper Midwest Jewish Archives has grown in size, use, and visibility in the past nine years...
Community engagement
Minitex Minitex, an information and resource sharing program of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and the University Libraries, celebrated 50 years of service to...
News from the Libraries
Teaching and learning at the archives For several years, the archivists at the Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections have been working with the U of...
Collections and Content Strategy
Open Access publishing In 2021, the Libraries Open Scholarship Committee issued the “Towards Open Access at the University of Minnesota” statement that outlines the principles...
Research
Data Curation Network grows As researchers encounter increasing requirements to store their data in places and ways that make it available online to anyone, the...
Student Success
The Toaster is hot More than 2,300 people joined our Toaster Community by the end of the fall 2021 semester. The Toaster Innovation Hub offers...
University of Minnesota Libraries 2021 Impact Report
May 2022 Dear supporters, I am pleased and excited to share this annual impact report with you. Our staff has worked so hard this year and...
Library use by the numbers
Library use FY2021 Article downloads: 6,456,128 Website visits: 2.1 million E-book downloads: 1,505,819 E-books available: 2,542,014 E-serials available: 237,879 Database searches: 4,726,081 Strategic Plan Our vision: Powering curiosity, discovery, and connection We respect...