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Educator and Librarian Learning Center

Information and training for library staff and educators to encourage and support high-quality information literacy instruction and research

Welcome to the ELM Learning Center

The ELM Learning Center is a collection of instructional materials on the eLibrary Minnesota databases created by librarians in the Outreach & Instruction unit of Minitex. These fact sheets, short videos, activities, and recorded webinars can be viewed and used on demand, whenever they're needed. Permission is granted to share, modify, and use all materials on this site with proper attribution.

The ELM website and the ELM Learning Center are managed by librarians in the Outreach & Instruction unit of Minitex. If you have any questions, please get in touch with us.

You can order ELM and Ebooks Minnesota promotional materials here.

New for Fall 2023: Try our Interactive, asynchronous modules for using ELM in the Classroom!  Certificates of completion for 1 CEU are available when you provide your email address on the final screen. 

Module: ELM in the Elementary Classroom

In this asynchronous, interactive module built for elementary educators, you can take a quick tour of the most important things that ELM has to offer your students.  Learn to find and use content from ELM as primary source curriculum as well as how to use ELM resources for differentiating student research and learning.

Module: ELM in the Secondary Classroom

In this asynchronous, interactive module built for secondary educators, you can take a quick tour of the most important things that ELM has to offer your students.  Learn to find and use content from ELM as primary source curriculum as well as how to use ELM resources for differentiating student research and learning.