Digital library of the week: Minnesota Reflections

[isherempress]

From the introduction:
Minnesota Reflections is the first online project of the Minnesota Digital Library Coalition. It is a collection of more than 40,000 images and documents depicting the history of Minnesota. ...

A search for "Minnehaha Falls" yielded 78 images.

Enjoy!

Comments

[chris_j6n]

Your Highness- I know that in general librarians are very subversive... but why did you restrict this post to people over 14 year old? -chris

[isherempress]

Oh, uh, well, even though I didn't lock this post to my FL, my site is self-rated at PG13 (parental guidance recommended). I don't always post things that are SFW, much less SFK! (YMMV, or, in this case, YKMV).

BTW, your kids were extremely well-behaved when we saw them a couple weeks ago. Kudos to you and the other parental unit. ;-)

[isherempress]

Sorry to hear that. Not to belabor the obvious, but a database is only as good as the DATA *and* the folks who do the DATA ENTRY *and* the folks who MAINTAIN the Authority Control (aka taxonomy, index, controlled vocabulary). It is a problem for you today... and with the route that many academic libraries are choosing, it will be a major problem for your grandchildren in 20 years. The trend now is to outsource most cataloging and authority control to the lowest bidder, often an agency hundreds of miles away from the library collection, with no idea of local history, names, values, or events. In the future, inconsistency will rule and researchers IMHO will be fortunate to locate scraps of reliable data for projects and reports.

I have been wrong before, and I would LOVE to be proven wrong on this, but I will be very surprised if I am.

[beamjockey]

After browsing... Jean Piccard ascended from Rochester, Minnesota, in a new kind of balloon in 1937. The collection has a number of documents including instructions to his ground crew. Seems like Tullio's kind of thing.