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...
Here is some information sent our way from DPLA that gives us an idea of how popular our collections are. I've shared this information in some recent conference presentations and training sessions, but I thought it would be nice to put this out as a...
MWDL had upgraded to Primo 4. The update includes some additional date and faceting search capabilities. Enjoy searching the updated site, and let us know if you have any questions!...
Eleven public librarians congregated yesterday at the Utah State Library to take part in the Mountain West Digital Library's first public librarian training. We had a jam-packed day that started at 8:30 am over a yogurt bar, fruit, granola, pastries, and coffee. Over the 30-minute...
MWDL is preparing three upcoming workshops to train public librarians in Utah on digitization and curating digital exhibits. Here are ten great reasons to consider signing up for any of the Public Library Partnerships trainings:#1 - 100% free training provided by six experienced and enthusiastic...