Because Ex Libris Primo, which is the platform for Mountain West Digital Library's harvesting, discovery, and delivery, doesn't include an Open Archives Initiative (OAI) provider for metadata, we had to come up with another way for the Digital Public Library of America to harvest metadata...
We are in the process of setting up a workable harvesting mechanism for the technical staff at the Digital Public Library of America to use to harvest metadata from the Mountain West Digital Library for selected collections. Working with DPLA Assistant Content Director Amy Rudersdorf, I have mapped the...
To help your patrons with more powerful searching for multimedia resources about the Mountain West, point them to our new online Library Guide at http://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/mwdl. This was created by MWDL’s Web portal assistant, Nick Hayen, who is also a graduate student in Middle Eastern History...
Recently, I filled out a survey from the Content and Scope Workstream of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) effort. Emily Gore and others were asking about the kinds of aggregated metadata we have in the Mountain West Digital Library and whether we would...
To foster more communication among the collection partners of the Mountain West Digital Library, we are launching a new listserve today. This listserve, MWDL-News, will include announcements about new services and new functionality on our search portal at https://mwdl.org, as well as helpful information about...
Thanks to the generosity of the Union Pacific Foundation, the Mountain West Digital Library has been able to engage an intern, Nick Hayen, for the 2011-2012 academic year. Nick has caught on quickly about how MWDL operates, and he is working on several projects to...
We are pleased to announce a new portal page on the Mountain West Digital Library, called “Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Finding Aids Portal,” at https://mwdl.org/ead_portal.php. This page provides new functionality for searching finding aids to materials from special collections and archives in the Mountain West.Users...
The Mountain West Digital Library has a new staff member, thanks to the generosity of the Union Pacific Foundation and the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. Nick Hayen came to the University of Utah last fall as a first year graduate student...
The latest issue of the ACRL publication College & Research Libraries News has included a favorable review of the Mountain West Digital Library in its “Internet Reviews” department. What a nice way to end the year! http://crln.acrl.org/content/72/11/701.full#article-title-3We have even more resources than the...
The members of the Digitization Committee of the Utah Academic Library Consortium are conducting their review of the beta site for the Mountain West Digital Library in Ex Libris Primo. Curious about the types of issues they are noting? Anyone can access the list at...