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"The Seed Keeper" Revisited

5/17/2021

 
By Faye Herald, Library Committee Member

In The Seed Keeper,  author Diane Wilson pulls together many of the concerns of the American Indian today.  Save our water, save our plants, save our land.  She has insinuated the failings of white America (and particularly Minnesota) into a fictional family genealogy, focusing on the life of Rosalie Iron Wing, with a few chapters
told by earlier, related women who deepen Rosalie’s background for us. The author says “this book was crafted as a blend of fiction and history, with imagined characters, incidents, and dialogue superimposed on a layer of real-life events.”  A gripping story brings Dakhota tragedies alive for us, and points to a nebulous future for our land.
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Where do seeds fit in?  Seeds, and particularly Dakhota corn seeds, and the need to preserve them for future generations, are at the heart of every story.

A Coffman Library Catalog?

5/2/2021

 
By Carol Van Why, Library Committee Co-Chair
Originally published in the May 2021 issue of the 
1666 Coffman Newsletter

​A question about a 1666 Coffman Library catalog is one that Library Committee members field a couple of times a year. Our answer has always ​been the same: since the Library’s beginning in 1986, there never has been a library catalog. A look at 1666 Coffman News from those days reveals that the Library fathers never envisioned a catalog. From the beginning, books were arranged on the shelves according to broad subject headings, just like they are today.
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Indeed, a few of the individuals responsible for envisioning and planning our library, soliciting books from “pioneer” residents, unpacking and arranging them on the shelves were men. Not only that, at least two of them, Edward “Ned” Stanford and Ralph Hopp, had distinguished careers in UMN libraries.

I can envision those early planning sessions when the question of a catalog inevitably arose. I can almost hear one of the founding fathers say that he didn’t retire to devote so much free time to cataloging thousands of books, to say nothing of doing annual inventories. It probably didn’t take a lot more discussion for them to just arrange the books on the shelves by subject.

Back in the late 1980s, it would have taken a great deal of work just to create the catalog, not to mention keep it accurate. Today digital utilities available to small libraries for importing catalog records into local catalogs are low-cost and user friendly. The remaining obstacle to deciding to create a catalog is still the inventory control issue.

Four professional librarians are currently among the group of dedicated Library Committee members. The newest committee member, Eileen Smith, spent a career in the technical services side of library work, and admits to being passionate about cataloging. With Eileen’s leadership we have never been more equipped to revisit the question of a catalog for the Coffman Library. Watch this space!

In the meantime, several of the Library Committee members know the collection inside out. Don’t hesitate to call either Carol Van Why at 651-917-1945 or Katie Weiblen at 651-340-7049 to see if the Library owns a particular book. If either of us doesn’t immediately have the answer, someone on the committee will.

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