Components demonstration
Content structures in the new site are different than you may be used to. This page illustrates the available components.
This is our first body paragraph, and includes some basic formatting options for text, such as superscripts, bold, and links.
Content section
Text paragraphs can be nested inside sections, to help add semantic structure to your page.
Card decks may have an optional heading
Subsection heading on a card
Main heading on a card ("Content Heading")
Each card has a card Body, which can include text paragraphs and a few other types of content.
A second section
Section two, paragraph one.
Content sect heading
Artist-led tours of ‘Flora & Fauna Illustrata’ at the Minneapolis Central Library
Meet some of the artists who have been working on “Flora and Fauna Illustrata.” Tour the exhibit with the artists and learn more about this long-term project to document the plants and animals living at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum! We are pleased to offer two separate one-hour artist-led tours of the exhibition.
ONLINE: BrowZine and Alerts–Keeping Up on Research
Learn how to use BrowZine, a tool to create your own virtual reading room of your favorite journals. You’ll also learn how to set up database and journal alerts to keep up on published scholarship in your field.
Webinar: New Directions in Finnish North American Research
This webinar showcases four innovative PhD dissertation projects on Finnish North American history and heritage. The speakers will present new approaches from the perspectives of history, folklore studies, linguistics, and literature.
ONLINE: Introduction to Zotero
Meet with fellow learners on Zoom and learn how to use Zotero to create your own database of citations, PDFs, images, webpages, video and audio files and more. Zotero can then be used to create citations in a large number of citation styles which can be added to Google Docs, Microsoft Word and Libre Office. We will send a zoom link to students who are registered the day before the workshop.
- Larry Long, ‘the American Troubadour,’ is giving a voice to the unheard
Larry Long recently donated his archives to the University of Minnesota Libraries. The entire collection will be digitized thanks to a $300,000 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources’ Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices program.
- The Pizzigano Portolan: A Cartographic Mystery at the James Ford Bell Library
In November 1954, 530 years after its creation, the James Ford Bell Library acquired what is known as the 1424 Nautical Chart, inscribed with the name of Venetian cartographer Zuane Pizzigano. It seems fitting to share it with you on its 600th anniversary.
- Visit ‘Flora and Fauna Illustrata’ exhibit at Minneapolis Central Library
Flora and Fauna Illustrata (FFI), a long-term project documenting the diversity of life at the…
- New publication provides inspiration, guidance for educators seeking to incorporate global perspectives into curricula
The “Power of One,” a new open-access book published by the University of Minnesota Libraries,…