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PALS is excited to announce that we are now working with Augsburg University to implement their digital repository using Islandora.  From Stewart Van Cleeve, Digital Archives and Research Services Librarian at Augsburg University: “Augsburg University is excited to join other Minnesota…

PALS is excited to announce that we have another new partner in our Islandora community, Northwestern Health Sciences University! From Susan J. Vossberg, MLIS, Technical Services Librarian at Northwestern Health Sciences University: “We look forward to joining the PALS Islandora…

PALS staff members are planning to be at the Minnesota Library Association Conference in Rochester next week! We will have a booth (# 17), and will be looking forward to talking with you about all the DAM work that comes…

As classes begin again and summer comes to a close, we thought it would be a good time to review our summer and take a moment to look ahead.  For the full newsletter, please follow this link.  

The PALS Islandora community held a webinar on restricting access in Islandora on Monday July 10th.  This was in some ways a continuation of discussion we held at the first Islandora workday in April, but it also really helped us…

Libraries: Beyond neutral and pushing to inclusiveness (by Alex Kent, Digital Initiatives Librarian, PALS) Recently I attended the Lake Superior Libraries Symposium Conference at University of Minnesota-Duluth, to give a lightning talk announcing our Islandora project with Leech Lake Tribal…

PALS staff member Alex Kent had a great time at the Islandora Conference in Hamilton, ON, Canada.  It started with a Hack/Doc at McMaster University’s Mills Library.  The conference itself was located at Liuna Station.   There were a number…

This meet up is for those attending the Islandora Conference who want to discuss workflows and enjoy happy hour at the The Works Burger Bistro (next to the Sheraton Hamilton).  This is a change from the previous location. Please sign up…

Project launch: Minnesota Water Research Digital Library  This week PALS staff met with staff of the Minnesota Water Research Digital Library (MNWRL), which is located in St. Paul, MN.  PALS is particularly excited to begin this project.   MNWRL’s digital…

PALS staff will be attending and presenting at the 2017 Islandora Conference in Hamilton, ON next week.  Through discussions with our partners these are some of the bigger issues PALS hopes to discuss more with the international community: Records management/workflows…

First annual workday: Empowering our community  The PALS Islandora community held our first annual workday at Minnesota State University-Mankato on Thursday 4/27/2017.   A few of our partners were not able to make it, but we had a great turnout.…

PALS is happy to announce that we have formed a partnership with the Minnesota Water Research Digital Library to build their digital repository using Islandora. The Minnesota Water Research Digital Library is “a user-friendly, searchable inventory of water research relevant…

PALS is excited to announce that we have formed a new partnership with Leech Lake Tribal College to implement their Islandora digital repository.  This is only possible because of the hard work put in by Leech Lake Tribal College staff…

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I recently made this video on how to ingest newspapers in Islandora for one of our sites.  I’m linking it here.  Hopefully it is useful to others.  Please use as you like!