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...
This week is Copyright Week, with many opportunities to extend your understanding of copyright issues. For a rundown of events check out the ACRL news post, Copyright Week Explores Principles of Copyright Policy. Check out the Copyright Week website for a full listing of readings....
I've recently set up a google site designed to track metadata issues. The issues could be items we want to address in a new version of our MWDL Application Profile, issues we would want clarified on our general guidelines page, or even ideas for additional...
Via InfoDocket, here is the Best Practices for Publishing Linked Data from the Government Linked Data Working Group. This looks like a good outline of considerations to follow when diving into Linked Data!...
We've had some harvesting issues with Brigham Young University, so one of my major projects in December was working with our Primo team to get fresh metadata in for all of BYU's collections. This project is now complete, and the metadata is all fresh and...
Happy New Year! Here at MWDL we always have big plans brewing, but 2014 is looking especially bold and action-packed. Below are some of the resolutions that are driving our plans for 2014: 1. To make the unique, historic items of collecting institutions in the...
The MWDL has plenty of fun digital collections that highlight New Year's celebrations! Take a trip to Kyoto and see some of the New Year's customs documented in the Marriott Library's Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photograph Collection. UNLV has a variety of New Year's Eve...
We have recently made several prominent changes to the MWDL LibGuide. Some of the best new features include an updated documents section, additional helpful information on searching in MWDL, an FAQ page, and links to our blog and social media sites. In addition, the guide...