Featured Collection: Photo Archives View of a cabin at Brighton Resort in 1932 With Thanksgiving the next day, we wanted to take the time to give thanks to our partner at the University of Utah, our home. The J. Willard Marriott Library is in our partner spotlight...
Featured Collection: Utah State Historical Society World War Military Listings Names of the people who served from Utah WWII In this week's Partner Spotlight, we want to highlight our partner here locally, Utah State Archives, or more formally known as Utah Division of Archives and Records Service....
Featured Collection: Menus: The Art of Dining This week's Partner Spotlight shines bright on our partners at UNLV, University Libraries Digital Collection! We all know the city they are from, but the Digital Collections' library at UNLV is full of historic and interesting collections. The collection...
Featured Collection: Dixie National Forest (UT) Photographs This week in our Partner Spotlight, we will be highlighting our partners at Southern Utah University, Sherratt Library as well as U.S. Forest Service, who provides all the photographs of this collection. One of the many interesting collections they...
While many new collections have joined MWDL in 2020, we're going to highlight four in this post. Three pertain to pandemics both past and present, and the fourth to the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage. These are all wonderful examples of MWDL partners using digital...
Happy Autumn 2020! We previously looked at where MWDL users are located and learned MWDL has global reach. But have you ever wondered how all those users find MWDL in the first place? We recently looked at traffic acquisition from June through mid-September and have...
Happy New Year, MWDL Network! On December 13, 2019, we announced the completion of a new metadata application profile. This post details the revision process and highlights the differences between MWDL MAP V2 ( 2011) and MWDL MAP V3 (2019). MAP V3 is effective January 1,...
A picture of the University of Utah Willard J. Marriott Library from the Southeast. Welcome to MWDL’s first partner spotlight! We’ll be writing one of these overviews for each of our partners over the coming months so be on the lookout for an email from...
With most schools and universities back in session the summer is quickly coming to an end, but before we fall off daylight savings time, we have a few noteworthy MWDL items for you. DPLA Our August DPLA harvest completed several weeks ago and we are up to...
GREGORY C. THOMPSON Gregory C. Thompson, Ph.D. is the Associate Dean of the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library for Special Collections and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of History. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Colorado State University (1965), Bachelor of...