It is Shark Week! What can we find in MWDL about sharks?Here is a photo of a Man standing with dead shark from Brigham Young University's incredible Edward K. Bryant Photo Collection.Man standing with dead sharkHere is a photo from University of Nevada Reno Special...
The staff of the Mountain West Digital Library were guests today on Dustin Fife's Evil Librarian podcast. For those of you know don't know Dustin Fife, he is our Utah Library Association President Elect, the Director of the San Juan County Library System, and a...
Over here at the Mountain West Digital Library, we have been crunching the numbers and have gathered the most interesting statistics together in our 2014 Quarter 2 Usage Analysis Report. Looking at this data has really given us some insight to the behavior of our visitors....
It is Batman Day today! Batman may be 75 years old but he can take out criminals with a car battery better than any other superhero. Let's celebrate this wonderful occasion by checking out some Bat-items from MWDL collections.We might not have any pictures of...
Greetings, information professionals! MWDL is pleased to announce the final schedule for the Fall Webinar Series. We hope many of you can join us in the upcoming weeks to learn about a variety of digital library topics. We have ten exciting sessions lined up this summer and fall...
We recently added this wonderful collection of Vandal Football Program Covers from the University of Idaho. I thought it would be fun to find some examples of MWDL partner institutions playing against each other, like this example where we have Idaho playing against Montana State...
We've added a large batch of new collections from the Weber State University Stewart Library recently! I knew that Weber State University had a series of name changes, but I hadn't realized how extensive the name changes were until I was working directly with these...
Hi, my name is Evan Young, and I am the new MWDL web development assistant. Starting this month, I will be working with the MWDL team to maintain and enhance our website at mwdl.org. I was born and raised in Oklahoma and have lived in...
When I saw that @HistoricalCats had launched as part of DPLA’s very nice App Library, I was a bit surprised that it wasn’t followed by a ton of other DPLA Twitter Bots. I had heard other people comment on the lack of a @HistoricalDogs twitter...
We recently added four great new collections from Utah State University! They are:Historic Postcards of Utah - Browse great postcards of Utah from the early to mid 1900s.Real photo postcard of Dave White on HeadlightJack London Collection - View correspondence, book inscriptions, photos, book covers...