It's suddenly May and we are pleased to highlight several upcoming learning opportunities. The DPLA Metadata Working Group's Reparative Description workshop series draws to a close next Friday, May 10 with a Special Projects in Reparative and Inclusive Description session. Four presenters will discuss approaches they...
Welcome to Spring 2024! The weather still looks more like winter at the moment, but things are springing ahead all around us. (Forgive these terrible puns, we've been inside too long!) MWDL Network News Collections We are thrilled to welcome back University of Nevada, Reno's content following their...
Several exciting new collections have joined MWDL in the past few months and we'd love to share more about them. Read on to learn more! Oregon Digital University of Oregon Libraries & Oregon Historical Society recently contributed the Joel Palmer Papers. Palmer began his political career in...
Happy new year and welcome back! January has nearly flown by already, but some exciting opportunities are coming right up. MWDL Outreach Working Group We just opened a call for participation in MWDL's newly-formed Outreach Working Group! The call will remain open through Friday, February 2 and...
Before we all head off into our respective holiday breaks, we thought we'd take a look back at 2023 in review! It's been a busy year for MWDL and we want to celebrate our successes. We welcomed 21 new collections from Utah Valley University Libraries, Utah...
It's hard to believe, but it's already December! Before we all go into a holiday food coma, we have a couple news items to share with you all. Events Join us on Thursday, December 14 at 3 PM Mountain/2 PM Pacific to hear more from the D-CRAFT...
Happy Autumn! We have a few updates to share with you today. DPLA DPLA's next Open Board + Community meeting will be held Monday, October 16. Anyone is welcome to attend and you can register here. DPLA announced recently that Shaneé Willis will be leaving the organization as...
We hope your new school year is off to a great start! Since our last update, we've welcomed five new collections to MWDL and wanted to share more about them. We also have a couple other items of note. New collections All five collections join MWDL via...
The MWDL Governing Body is pleased to share recent revisions to the MWDL Repository Guidelines (Governing document). These revisions were adopted as of August 28, 2023 with a majority vote of the Governing Body. The document was revised by an ad hoc committee formed at the...
Somehow summer 2023 is already half over! We want to pause and mention some interesting items from our network and beyond. Projects First up, a podcast by CLIR has won an award! The third season of the Material Memory podcast won the 2023 Award of Excellence from...