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...
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:...
21 Nov New tools for rapid auditing of your collections metadata
A few months back, we learned about some useful tools for metadata auditing. The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center shared these tools with other Service Hubs in the Digital Public Library of America network, including MWDL. I customized NCDHC’s tools to reflect the required and recommended...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...03 Feb Finding Aids Portal
We are pleased to announce a new portal page on the Mountain West Digital Library, called “Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Finding Aids Portal,” at https://mwdl.org/ead_portal.php. This page provides new functionality for searching finding aids to materials from special collections and archives in the Mountain West....
30 Mar Update on migration to new MWDL portal
The members of the Digitization Committee of the Utah Academic Library Consortium are conducting their review of the beta site for the Mountain West Digital Library in Ex Libris Primo. Curious about the types of issues they are noting? Anyone can access the list at...- 1
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