"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John WoodenLast Friday, I went to the ULA fall workshop at Utah State University and had the pleasure of hearing Salt Lake Public Library's new executive director John Spears talk about...
One of the first things I focused on after starting work as Digital Metadata Librarian for the Mountain West Digital Library was learning how to add new collections! The MWDL actually has a backlog of new collections to add, so I don't need to worry...
For those of you who don't know, there is a new Outreach Librarian at the Mountain West Digital Library, and it's me! After three weeks of training and strategizing within the safe confines of my office, last week I ventured out to my first outreach...
I've been noticing a few issues with the visual display of items after a recent upgrade to version 6.5. If you are having difficulties resizing the viewing window or printing a document, try hitting the shift key and the refresh button at the top of...
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...