We like to think that the Mountain West Digital Library is pretty user-friendly. Our portal can't read your mind like Google does, but all that lovely structured metadata allows users to search on exactly the information they are looking for like author, date, subject, location,...
Last week we were able to go to Webwise 2014 in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference is put on by the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and is a great way to learn about innovative digital library ideas and programming. This was my first time...
Who exactly is the Mountain West Digital Library? Well, as we grow, it keeps changing! And, as we grow, our notions of participation, governance, and funding are evolving too. Now that we are sharing 560 collections from 130 partners, hosted on 17 repositories located in...
Enjoy this lovey photo of two Guinea pigs hanging out near a Valentine from Delta City Library's Frank Beckwith Collection. ...
Photograph of Howard Hughes with a drawn-in mustache, October 11, 1956. - I'm not sure why someone would want to draw extra mustaches on Howard Hughes, but here is evidence of someone doing just that. Perhaps they wanted to make this photo more consistent with...
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...
I've been doing a bit of reading to bring myself up to speed about schema.org and microdata. Here are some of the things I've been bookmarking recently. Now, if only I had time to read all of this!HTML5 Microdata and Schema.orgSpoonfeeding Library Data to Search...
The 2013 Mountain West Digital Library usage statistics report is now available for your viewing pleasure! We have seen tremendous growth in visitors and pageviews throughout the past year on both the MWDL website and our social media platforms. In total, MWDL received over 113,000...
It is always interesting to see how people are doing research with historical materials from digitized collections. One project that recently caught my eye is An Epidemiology of Information, which is a Digging into Data challenge project. Here's an article about the project, which focuses...
Librarians love public libraries. It doesn't matter if we are academic librarians, law librarians, medical librarians, data curators, catalogers, or digital preservationists. We love public libraries because, for most of us, it was our first contact with the concept of libraries...