E-Publishing

A Library of Digital Training

One of the benefits of webinars is the ability to record them and view them at a later date. The Mountain West Digital Library has been recording and archiving webinars for over a year and now has 25 different videos available in our training library.If...

Is your library a Thing?

Check out this open access article:Demonstrating Library Value at Network Scale: Leveraging the Semantic Web With New Knowledge Work by Kenning Arlitsch, Patrick O'Brien, Jason A. Clark, Scott W. H. Young & Doralyn Rossmann for an interesting overview of what the Library can provide a...

Two new collections from the Utah State Historical Society

The Mountain West Digital Library recently added two great collections from the Utah State Historical Society.The KUED Topaz Relocation Center Residents Collection contains images of Japanese Americans in the Topaz Internment Camp in Delta, Utah.Topaz School ChildrenThis collection joins many other digital collections the Mountain West Digital...

Sharks in MWDL

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...

Nice librarians featured on the Evil Librarian podcast

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...

2014 Quarter 2 Usage Analysis Report

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....

Celebrating Batman Day with Bat-themed items from MWDL

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...

MWDL Fall Webinar Schedule Announced!

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...

MWDL Partner Football Rivalry as seen in Vandal Football Program Covers Collection

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...

Great New Collections from Weber State University

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...