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Minitex News articles tagged with "University of Minnesota Libraries" (101):

Our Umbra Search: Bringing Black History Out of the Shadows

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Read This Book! — More books to give over the holidays

Sherlock Holmes and the Betty Crocker Cooky Book are the topics of this special episode of Read This Book! about books to give this holiday season, Part 2.

New Tutorial for Archival Research

Archival research need not be intimidating or confusing to novice researchers.  Those students just learning for the first time how to discover rich primary sources on their topic or researchers who may need a refresher on the contents of a finding aid will find this new tutorial quite helpful! 

Read This Book! — Books to give this holiday season 2015

It’s that time of year again and our expert librarians at the University of Minnesota are here to make recommendations on books to give this holiday season.

Read This Book! — Mars

Mars is the subject of this installment of Read This Book!, which features Science Librarian Carolyn Bishoff and Social Sciences Librarian Amy Riegelman.

Read This Book! — Tim Johnson

In this installment of Read This Book!, Tim Johnson discusses Neil Gaiman's “Make Good Art” commencement speech, “Go Set a Watchman” by Harper Lee, “The Boys in the Boat” by Daniel James Brown, and “Art in the Blood” by Bonnie MacBird.

Read This Book! — Pirates!

In this installment of Read This Book!, Maggie Ragnow discusses books about Pirates— just in time for International Talk Like a Pirate Day, which is September 19.

Lisa Von Drasek appointed to 2017 Caldecott Medal Selection Committee

Lisa Von Drasek, Curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries, has been appointed to the 2017 Caldecott Medal Selection Committee. "The Caldecott Medal

Read This Book! — Picture Books

In this episode of Read This Book!, Lisa Von Drasek reviews the top Picture Books published in the last year. They include: “This Book Just Ate My Dog" by Richard Byrne, “Thank You Octopus” by Darren Farrell, “Shh! We Have a Plan” by Chris Haughton, and “Edda” by Adam Auerbach.

Read This Book! — More summer reading picks from our librarians

In this episode of Read This Book!, University of Minnesota librarians Lisa Von Drasek, Carolyn Bishoff, and Megan Kocher provide recommendations for summer reading.