Minnesota State Profile

Minnesota was the thirty-second state to be admitted to the Union on May 11, 1858. The land area is 79,617 square miles. The total area is 89,943 square miles. You guessed it, 7326 square miles is water! There is a reason Minnesota is called the land of 10,000 lakes. The 2003 estimate of population is 5,059,375 people. Mean travel time to work twenty-one minutes. Origin of the word "Minnesota" is based on the Dakota Sioux Indian word for "sky-tinted water". The red or Norway pine (Pinus resinosa) became the official state tree in 1953. The state flower is the pink and white Lady's slipper (Cypridedium reginae). The state bird is the common loon (Gavia). Minnesota has many community colleges and universities, including the University of Minnesota Medical School and the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.

State Information

• 500 Nations: Indian Tribes: Minnesota: http://www.500nations.com/Minnesota_Tribes.asp
• Minnesota Department of Health: Strategies for Public Health: http://www.health.state.mn.us/strategies/
• Rural Assistance Center: State Resources: Minnesota: http://www.raconline.org/states/minnesota.php
• U.S. Census Bureau: 2010 Michigan Profile: http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10_thematic/2010_Profile/2010_Profile_Map_Michigan.pdf
• U.S. Census Bureau: State & County QuickFacts: Minnesota: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/27000.html
• Additional national databases for state information: National Data

State Health Information

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): 2011 State Snapshots: Minnisota: http://statesnapshots.ahrq.gov/
• Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA): HRSA In Your State Fact Sheet: Minnesota: http://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/HIMSFactSheet.aspx?statecd=27
• Minnesota Department of Health: http://www.health.state.mn.us/
• Additional databases for state health information: National Health Data

State Medical or Health Professional Associations

• Minnesota Medical Association: http://www.mnmed.org/

Emergency Preparedness

• ECHO - Emergency and Community Health Outreach: http://www.echominnesota.org/
• Minnesota Homeland Security and Emergency Management: https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/hsem/

GMR State Contact:

• Irene Williams, Network Services Coordinator, Email the GMR

Library Schools

• St. Catherine University - Master of Library and Information Science: http://www.stkate.edu/academic/mlis

Library Associations

• Health Science Libraries of Minnesota: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lmcguire/hslm/
  Wendy Roehlke, Chair, wroehlke@ucare.org, 612-676-3247
• Medical Library Association: http://www.mlanet.org/
  • Midwest Chapter: http://midwestmla.org/
    Janna Lawrence, President, janna-lawrence@uiowa.edu, 319-335-9870
• Special Library Association http://www.sla.org/
  • Minnesota Chapter (MN SLA): http://units.sla.org/chapter/cmn/

Library Consortia

• Arrowhead Health Sciences Library Network

  Adele Krusz, Coordinator, akrusz@d.umn.edu, 218-726-8104

• Twin Cities Biomedical Consortium

Outreach Libraries

• University of Minnesota, Bio-Medical Library

Resource Libraries

• Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic Libraries
• University of Minnesota, Bio-Medical Library

Minnesota GMR Members

Directory of members in Minnesota.