The Minnesota Digital Library Coalition (MDLC) — professionals from libraries, archives, historical societies, and museums across Minnesota — is creating a digital collection of the state's unique resources and special collections. The Minnesota Digital Library supports education, scholarship, and enrichment through Internet access to this collection. The MDLC provides a server and database environment and imaging support that is the technical foundation for current and future digitization activities.
Minnesota Reflections is the initial digitization effort of the MDLC. This digitization project, begun in 2004-05, now involves more than 95 participating historical societies, special archives, libraries and other organizations. The MDLC and participants have digitized more than 20,000 unique photographs and images, maps, journals, documents, letters and works of art, collected the information on these images, and created a searchable database to help people access and use them. The MDLC will conduct Phase 5 of this project in 2008-09. Search Minnesota Reflections at reflections.mndigital.org.
Administratively, the Minnesota Digital Library is a grant-funded project operating under the umbrella of the MINITEX Library Information Network.
MDLC Steering Committee members
John Butler, Director, Digital Library Development Laboratory
University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) Libraries
Bill DeJohn, Director
MINITEX Library Information Network
Todd Digby, System Director of Libraries
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Keith Ewing, Library Systems Coordinator/Faculty
Learning Resources & Technology Services, St. Cloud State University
Michael Fox, Deputy Director
Minnesota Historical Society
Steve Harsin, Head Librarian/Director
Iron Range Research Center
Robert Horton, Director, Library, Publications and Collections
Minnesota Historical Society
Emily Kissane, Policy Analyst
Minnesota Office of Higher Education
John Larson, Information Technology Librarian
St. Paul Public Library
Kendall Larson, Chair, Library and Information Services
Winona State University
Ben Leonard, Director
Nicollet County Historical Society
Wendy Pradt Lougee, University Librarian/McKnight Presidential Professor
University of Minnesota
Suzanne Miller, Director, State Library Services
Minnesota Department of Education
Kathleen Parker, Director of Libraries and Media
College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
Marian Rengel, Grant Project Developer-Grant Coordinator/Faculty
Learning Resources & Technology Services, St. Cloud State University
Joan Roca, Dean of Library Services
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Jason Roy, Head of Digital Collections
University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) Libraries
Daardi Sizemore, Archives and Special Collections Librarian
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Kristi Tornquist, Dean of Learning Resources & Technology Services
St. Cloud State University
Irene VanBavel, Central Collections Services Manager
Minnesota Historical Society
