1. History Day @ Your Library
It’s Online!
Beth Staats
MINITEX Reference Service

2. Resources to Cover… MnLINK – http://www.mnlinkgateway.org
WorldCat – or
Minnesota Reflections -

3. MnLINK Minnesota’s statewide library catalog
Search catalogs from over 20 Minnesota public library systems = approx. 110 public libraries
Funded by a 1997 appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature
Patron initiated ILL = Get It! Button (need a Minnesota public library card)

4. Primary Resources via MnLINK
Diaries
Papers
Family papers
Letters
Manuscripts
Correspondence
Memoirs
Autobiographies
August 17, 1863
Dear Diary,
I am writing to tell you of the man who stopped by to see me today. He was very frightening. My father ran to the barn to fetch a pitch fork for fear that he might

5. MnLINK Search Examples

6. WorldCat
One of the ELM (Electronic Library for Minnesota) databases
WorldCat.org –
OCLC’s online catalog of library holdings around the world
Contains over 1,000,000 bibliographic records in over 400 languages
Access archival materials, musical scores, images, maps, books, visual materials and more
Use WorldCat to locate primary sources either online or in a library near you

7. Primary sources in WorldCat
Correspondence
Diaries
Interviews
Literary collections
Personal narratives
Pictorial works
Posters
Songs and music sources
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Treaties

8. WorldCat Search Examples

9. Minnesota Reflections
First project of the Minnesota Digital Library Coalition
Collection of 31,000 images and documents from Minnesota’s past
Images and documents shared by more than 95 cultural heritage organizations across the state
Historical societies, history centers, churches, universities, institutes, archives, libraries, museums

10. Primary Sources in MN Reflections
Photographs and images
Maps
Journals
Documents
diaries, scrapbooks, event programs,
posters, playbills, souvenirs,
Letters
Works of art

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