For many years, library leaders in Minnesota have worked to create a distributed research collection in the state. In 2022, the state agency Minitex provided funding to support this effort, in what is called the Minnesota Shared Print Program. Twenty-four Minnesota libraries have joined together and are committed to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota, which we are calling the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. Winona State’s share of this collection is about sixteen thousand titles. As we label the books, we have found interesting stories about our collection. Here are twenty stories from the Winona State share of the collection.
Story 1: Polymer Composites at WSU
Story 2: Boolean: AND, OR, ... NOT!
Story 3: Winona Normal School: the First Teacher’s College West of the Mississippi.
Story 4: Beer and Philosophy
Story 5: Retained Books versus Notable Books
Story 6: Who’s afraid of J. Edgar Hoover?
Story 7: Book Donations to the Library
Story 8: Preserving All Voices
Story 9: Lean Management
Story 10: The Economy of Bangladesh
Story 11: A Bible on the List
Story 12: WSU Authors
Story 13: By the Sweat of Children's Brows
Story 14: Nursing Books were Excluded from the List … Mostly
Story 15: In Search of Bobby Fischer
Story 16: Books about the Community of Winona and about Winona State Itself
Story 17: Concerns for a Sustainable Future
Story 18: To quote “Young Frankenstein”: “It could be worse; it could be raining.”
Story 19: Back to the Future
Story 20: A score of musical scores
Story 21: Slave Narratives on Juneteenth
Story 22: Diversity of Courage
Story 23: History’s Less-Famous Battles
Story 24: “What do you read, my lord?” “Words, words, words.” – Hamlet
Story 25: Old News about Rigged Elections
Story 26: The Mighty Mississippi
Story 27: Housing in Developing Countries
Story 28: Books about Learning without Books
Story 29: Local History, but Across the River
Story 30: The Two Certainties: Death and Taxes
Story 31: Organized Labor
Story 32: River Conservation
Story 33: A Rare Book about Remembering 9/11
Story 34: They came from Outer Space … or did they?
Story 35: "What is difficult is the perseverance" – A Tai Chi proverb
Story 36: Flood Control, Winona Style
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