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

• Quick Facts from the Census: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/27000.html
• Healthy People 2010 Minnesota: http://www.health.state.mn.us/strategies/
• Population Profiles: http://ftp2.census.gov/geo/maps/special/profile2k/MN_2K_Profile.pdf
• Minnesota Indian Tribes: http://www.500nations.com/Minnesota_Tribes.asp
• State Resources - Minnesota (from the Rural Assistance Center): http://www.raconline.org/states/minnesota.php

State Health Information

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Health Data and Profiles for State, Tribal, Local and Territories: http://www.cdc.gov/stltpublichealth/DataStatistics/
• Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA): HRSA In Your State Fact Sheet: Minnesota: http://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/HIMSFactSheet.aspx?statecd=27
  • Health Center Data: State Data http://bphc.hrsa.gov/healthcenterdatastatistics/statedata/
  • Find Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) by State & County http://hpsafind.hrsa.gov/
  • National Center for Health Workforce Analysis: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/ (see the link to: Index of All Health Workforce Reports)
• Minnesota Department of Health: http://www.health.state.mn.us/
• State Cancer Profiles (National Cancer Institute): http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/

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/Pages/default.aspx

GMR State Contact:

• Irene Williams, Network Services Coordinator. Email the GMR

Regional Advisory Council Representative

• NN/LM GMR Regional Advisory Council, 2011-2016

  Liz Fine, Minnesota State Representative, evfine@umn.edu, 612-624-6492

Library Associations

• Health Science Libraries of Minnesota
• Midwest Chapter - Medical Library Association

  Janna Lawrence, President, janna-lawrence@uiowa.edu, 319-335-9870

Library Consortia

• Arrowhead Health Sciences Library Network

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

• Twin Cities Biomedical Consortium

Union Listing Organizations

• Minitex Library Information Network, University of Minnesota

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.