Minitex
Minitex, University of Minnesota & MN Office of Higher Education
Minitex
2019 CONTACT:Valerie Horton, Director
Phone: 612-624-2839
Email: vhorton@umn.edu
Program Overview
The Minnesota Library Publishing Project (MLPP) provides online publishing tools and training information to support independent authors and small publishers. We believe that libraries have a vibrant role to play in helping local communities come together to create and share books.
Publishing Activities Began: 2016
Location: United States
Organization: consortia bringing public and academics together to support library publishing
Stage (1–5): 2 - Early
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
Location: United States
Organization: consortia bringing public and academics together to support library publishing
Stage (1–5): 2 - Early
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 1
- Paraprofessional staff:
- Graduate students:
- Undergraduates:
Funding Sources for Publishing Activities:
- Library Materials Budget: %
- Library Operating Budget: %
- Non-library Campus Budget: 80%
- Endowment Income: %
- Charitable Contributions: %
- Grants: %
- Sales Revenue: %
- Licensing Revenue: %
- Charge Backs: %
- Other: 20%
Publishing Activities
All Library Publishing Activities:- Monographs: 350
Partners
Best publications to refer to our program: We run a community of interest with participation from 30 academic libraries in the state. We also work closely with the public library community through the Council of Regional Public Library Systems.
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- images
- text
- video
Softwares & Platforms:
- Pressbooks
Additional Services:
Service Vendors: Bibliolabs Inc. provides a platform for monographs created as part of MN Library Publishing Project to be distributed statewide.
- outreach
- training
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:We're looking into providing ISBN numbers, but still concentrating on training/sharing what has been successful at participating libraries.
Other Information:
We provide a system to publish a book and a platform to read the book statewide, and we're adding between 5 to 10 new authors each week. Individual academic and public libraries work with authors.
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