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June 1, 2009

June 2009 Monthly Meeting

Filed under: Monthly Meetings — debbie.miller@mnhs.org @ 2:56 pm

This will remind you that the MHS monthly research group meets tomorrow morning, Tuesday, June 2, at 10 am. We meet in the Pillsbury Room on Level A of the History Center. The email function for the Researchers Notebook blog is not working and it’s not clear when it may be fixed, so for now we’re back to plain old emailing.

I’ll be bringing a couple of requests for source suggestions from scholars in Kansas and Oklahoma, one on the housing crisis and mortgage laws in Minneapolis during the 1930s Depression and the other on more-than-basic information on female captives in the Dakota War and afterwards.

Kathie and Debbie look forward to seeing those of you who can attend tomorrow’s meeting and hearing your research reports. Please let us know if you’d like your name removed from the reminder list.

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April 30, 2009

May Researchers Meeting

Filed under: Monthly Meetings — debbie.miller@mnhs.org @ 3:01 pm

We will gather for the monthly research meeting this coming Tuesday, May 5, from 10:00 a.m. to noon.  We’ll be meeting in a new place that we hope will be a little roomier, the Pillsbury conference room on Level A of the History Center.  Here are some directions, and if you don’t remember them, just ask at the MHS Information Desk on the first floor when you enter the building from the parking lot.

As you enter the History Center from the parking lot, come straight down the hall, past both stores, and turn left when you can’t go much farther.  You’ll be at a set of 2 elevators.  Take an elevator down 1 floor to Level A.  Straight ahead of you when you get off at Level A will be the Pillsbury Conference Room.  

We look forward to hearing about your current and planned research projects.

If you can’t make the meeting but would like to send a message to the group (raise a question, ask for research help, make an anouncement, or offer a suggestion), let Kathie know. We can even post your message on the blog, if you want, and you can receive “virtual” answers! If you really want to get into blogging, we can make you a “contributor” and you can post messages yourself.

Please let Kathie know if you would like to remove your name from the monthly reminder list.

P.S. Deb is recovering well, but will not be with us for the meeting.

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March 28, 2009

April 2009 Monthly Meeting

Filed under: Monthly Meetings — debbie.miller@mnhs.org @ 1:07 pm

We will gather for the monthly research meeting this coming Tuesday, April 7, from 10:00 a.m. to noon.  We’ll be meeting in a new place that we hope will be a little roomier, the Pillsbury conference room on Level A of the History Center.  Here are some directions, and if you don’t remember them, just ask at the MHS Information Desk on the first floor when you enter the building from the parking lot.

As you enter the History Center from the parking lot, come straight down the hall, past both stores, and turn left when you can’t go much farther.  You’ll be at a set of 2 elevators.  Take an elevator down 1 floor to Level A.  Straight ahead of you when you get off at Level A will be the Pillsbury Conference Room.  

We look forward to hearing about your current and planned research projects.

If you can’t make the meeting but would like to send a message to the group (raise a question, ask for research help, make an anouncement, or offer a suggestion), let Debbie or Kathie know. We can even post your message on the blog, if you want, and you can receive “virtual” answers! If you really want to get into blogging, we can make you a “contributor” and you can post messages yourself.

Please let Debbie or Kathie know if you would like to remove your name from the monthly reminder list.

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February 26, 2009

March 2009 Monthly Meeting

Filed under: Monthly Meetings — debbie.miller@mnhs.org @ 9:44 am

We will gather for the monthly research meeting this coming Tuesday, March 3, from 10:00 a.m. to noon in the Knight Research Suite in the Publications Department’s office area. We look forward to hearing about your current and planned research projects.

Lea Vander Velde’s new book, Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery’s Frontier, is out and the MHS library has just received a copy.

The MHS Collections Management Dept. has begun working toward integrating all of the library’s WPA materials into one large online record.  They’re using a technique called block-building, where various people are assigned different pieces of a project and the cataloging is added for each piece when it is finished.  The same technique is being used for cataloging the Hill Papers and the Mondale Papers.  No delayed gratification here!

If you can’t make the meeting but would like to send a message to the group (raise a question, ask for research help, make an anouncement, or offer a suggestion), let Debbie or Kathie know. We can even post your message on the blog, if you want, and you can receive “virtual” answers! If you really want to get into blogging, we can make you a “contributor” and you can post messages yourself.

Please let Debbie or Kathie know if you would like to remove your name from the monthly reminder list.

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January 28, 2009

February 2009 Monthly Meeting

Filed under: Monthly Meetings — debbie.miller@mnhs.org @ 3:16 pm

We will gather for the monthly research meeting this coming Tuesday, February 3, from 10:00 a.m. to noon in the Knight Research Suite in the Publications Department’s office area.  We look forward to hearing about your current and planned research projects.

A researcher at work on ditching and drainage and its effects in Freeborn County is planning to join us.

If you can’t make the meeting but would like to send a message to the group (raise a question, ask for research help, make an anouncement, or offer a suggestion), let Debbie or Kathie know. We can even post your message on the blog, if you want, and you can receive “virtual” answers! If you really want to get into blogging, we can make you a “contributor” and you can post messages yourself.

Please let Debbie or Kathie know if you would like to remove your name from the monthly reminder list.

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December 31, 2008

January 2009 Research Meeting

Filed under: Monthly Meetings — debbie.miller@mnhs.org @ 10:53 am

We will gather for the monthly research meeting this coming Tuesday, January 6, from 10:00 a.m. to noon in the Knight Research Suite in the Publications Department’s office area.  We look forward to hearing about your current and planned research projects.

Debbie will talk a bit about researcher interest in the Dakota-language letters in the Stephen Riggs & Family Papers and solicit advice on that subject.

If you can’t make the meeting but would like to send a message to the group (raise a question, ask for research help, make an anouncement, or offer a suggestion), let Debbie or Kathie know. We can even post your message on the blog, if you want, and you can receive “virtual” answers! If you really want to get into blogging, we can make you a “contributor” and you can post messages yourself.

Please let Debbie or Kathie know if you would like to remove your name from the monthly reminder list.

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October 31, 2008

November 2008 Meeting

Filed under: Monthly Meetings — debbie.miller@mnhs.org @ 10:01 am

We will gather for the monthly research meeting this coming Tuesday, November 4, from 10:00 a.m. to noon in the Knight Research Suite in the Publications Department’s office area. Yes, it is Election Day and we’re still going to meet! To “celebrate” Election Day we’re going to have a potluck.  No particular theme, bring whatever you want.

We look forward to hearing about your current and planned research projects. A new member wants to propose a “writers group,” so those of you who are trying to put pen to paper think about that possibility. If there is time, we will discuss the Protocols for Native American Archivial Materials. Take a look before you come.

If you can’t make the meeting but would like to send a message to the group (raise a question, ask for research help, make an anouncement, or offer a suggestion), let Debbie or Kathie know. We can even post your message on the blog, if you want, and you can receive “virtual” answers! If you really want to get into blogging, we can make you a “contributor” and you can post messages yourself.

Please let Debbie or Kathie know if you would like to remove your name from the monthly reminder list.

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October 3, 2008

October Meeting

Filed under: Monthly Meetings — debbie.miller@mnhs.org @ 10:37 am

We will gather for the monthly research meeting this coming Tuesday, October 7, from 10:00 a.m. to noon in the Knight Research Suite in the Publications Department’s office area. 

We will be discussing the Protocols for Native American Archivial Materials at the meeting. Take a look before you come.

If you can’t make the meeting but would like to send a message to the group (raise a question, ask for research help, make an anouncement, or offer a suggestion), let Debbie or Kathie know. We can even post your message on the blog, if you want, and you can receive “virtual” answers! We look forward to hearing about your current and planned research projects. Please let Debbie or Kathie know if you would like to remove your name from the monthly reminder list.

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September 7, 2008

September Meeting

Filed under: Monthly Meetings — debbie.miller@mnhs.org @ 2:28 pm

We will gather for the monthly research meeting this coming Tuesday, September 9, from 10:00 a.m. to noon in the Knight Research Suite in the Publications Department’s office area. Deb is off having fun elsewhere, so Kathie will convene the meeting.

Kathie is just back from the Society of American Archivists annual meeting. There was considerable discussion of the Protocols for Native American Archivial Materials at the meeting. Take a look before you come and if there is interest we can spend some time talking about them.

If you can’t make the meeting but would like to send a message to the group (raising a question, asking for research help, making an anouncement, or offering a suggestion), let Debbie or Kathie know. We can even post your message on the blog, if you want, and you can receive “virtual” answers! We look forward to hearing about your current and planned research projects. Please let Debbie or Kathie know if you would like to remove your name from the monthly reminder list.

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July 30, 2008

August Meeting

Filed under: Monthly Meetings — debbie.miller@mnhs.org @ 9:49 am

We will gather for the monthly research meeting at our regular day–this coming Tuesday, August 5, from 10:00 a.m. to noon in the Publications offices’ Knight Research Suite. We haven’t located a larger meeting room yet, but Debbie is working on it.

Debbie will talk a bit about a video in the works about the 38 Dakota men hanged at Mankato. (FYI - Related to that, the PBS History Detectives show on a commemorative spoon about the same subject will air Monday August 18

If you can’t make the meeting but would like to send a message to the group (raising a question, asking for research help, making an anouncement, or offering a suggestion), let Debbie or Kathie know. We can even post your message on the blog, if you want, and you can receive “virtual” answers! We look forward to hearing about your current and planned research projects. Please let Debbie or Kathie know if you would like to remove your name from the monthly reminder list.

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