The Digital Public Library of America celebrated its one-year anniversary on April 18, 2014 and has received significant press in celebration of this landmark occasion. In only one year, DPLA has tripled the size of its collections, growing from 2.4 million items to more than 7...
It is time to celebrate! MWDL has over 900,000 records!Boy clearing hurdle (ca. 1911), University of Nevada, Reno Special Collections We have 903329 records in MWDL right now! Now, the big question is, when will we hit one million items?...
The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) is pleased to announce a free training and partnership opportunity starting this summer for Utah public librarians in “Digitization and Digital Exhibits at Your Library.” Utah public librarians and other public library staff are invited to participate in training...
We are continuing to add more new collections to the Mountain West Digital Library!You can see the list of partners under Montana grow larger as we add more collections from the Montana Memory Project. We have even more collections to add, so that list will...
Last month, MWDL hosted our first ever Hubs Meeting at the Utah State Archives in Salt Lake City, UT. We had 30 representatives from 20 different institutions in Utah, Nevada, Montana, and Idaho. The purpose of the meeting was to determine the future mix of services that...
The Mountain West Digital Library is growing like crazy, and we are so happy to announce the addition of a brand new state. Montana has become the sixth state to be represented in MWDL along with Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, and Hawaii. Montana Historical Society...
The folks at DPLA just published this handy guide to the DPLA Metadata Model. This blog post has more information. This is interesting reading if you would like to get an overview of some of the metadata aggregation issues DPLA deals with on a national...
One thing that came across my twitter feed today that I thought was interesting was this online course, Making Sense of Data offered through Google. According to the course description, the class will cover:Learn about the basics of data, including the structure and organization of...
As the outreach librarian for MWDL, I am a notorious list-maker. Not only does it help me keep track of my many tasks related to the Mountain West Digital Library but there is something so psychologically satisfying about crossing things off a list as proof...
Even though twitter has been around what seems like forever in Internet time, I sometimes find myself explaining why it is useful to non-twitter users. I have a couple twitter accounts that I use for different reasons.A personal twitter account (see if you can use...