29 Mar Election Reflections Social Media Project
The U.S. Presidential Election Reflections collection launched on 20 January 2017, just in time for the United States presidential inauguration. This social media collecting project boasts 233 reflections about the 2016 presidential election results. The collection project began the day after the election and ran...
29 Mar Salt Lake Tribune Negative Collection
This collection contains over 171,000 images mainly from the 1930s to the 1960s. The collection is unique in origin as it includes images taken by dozens of different photographers sent out by the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper to get the perfect shot, something newsworthy. This...
21 Nov Giving Thanks to Veterans at Thanksgiving!
We’re now wading deep into the holiday season! In light of Veteran’s Day last week and with Thanksgiving fast approaching, we think it’s the perfect time to show thanks. So, as a thank you to both our readers and veterans, we’re giving you something to...
10 Apr NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK
Happy National Library Week! If you haven’t already, take a look at American Library Association’s post about it. In the theme of Libraries Lead, take a look at several of our public library partners’ collections! Many of these collections are the results of library-led community...
27 Mar New Collections from Utah State University
We are excited to announce the addition of fifteen new collections from Utah State University – Merrill-Cazier Library. Here are some of the highlights! Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project This collection contains recordings and materials produced during the Library of Congress Field School “Voices:...03 Feb Top five MWDL Facebook posts of 2013!
Once a year, MWDL puts together its usage report from the previous year’s statistics. I was curious to see how our social media sites are performing and to find out what content our faithful MWDL fans want to see on our Facebook page. I found...11 Oct Glowing praise for linked data
The results are in. Eighteen of our twenty participants have turned in their workshop surveys and these are the comments our workshop – and mostly our amazing presenters, Silvia and Cory – generated: “Well done, UNLV!” “Thank you. It was awesome!” “I was very impressed...14 Mar Sharing access with the DPLA: Providing metadata from Primo for harvest
Because Ex Libris Primo, which is the platform for Mountain West Digital Library’s harvesting, discovery, and delivery, doesn’t include an Open Archives Initiative (OAI) provider for metadata, we had to come up with another way for the Digital Public Library of America to harvest metadata...- 1
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