E-Publishing

April 20, 2015 / by

Recently Added Public Library Partnerships Project collections from Montana Memory Project

Working with Digital Public Library of America and Mountain West Digital Library service hubs to develop a curriculum and support for new collections from public libraries was a large focus of MWDL work for the past several months. It is great to celebrate the work...

April 6, 2015 / by

Recently added collections from Utah Valley University and Arizona Memory Project

We've been adding a bunch of new collections and partners to MWDL recently! Here are some new collections for you to explore.From Utah Valley University Library:Utah Valley University Course Catalogs - Explore some institutional history with these course catalogs. Just how many names has Utah...

March 26, 2015 / by

Two New Collections from Utah Valley Univesity – Visit Historic American Fork and Fillmore

The folks at Utah Valley University have been hard at work digitizing new collections!The American Fork City Public Library created a great collection for the Public Library Partnerships Project, the American Fork City Royalty Collection. Now you can learn more about the history of American...

March 3, 2015 / by

New Collections from the University of Idaho

We recently added three new collections from the University of Idaho!The Idaho Forester - This publication from the University of Idaho's Forestry Department contains research articles, forest industry information, and much more.The Idaho Forester, 1923Kyle Laughlin Photographs - This collection features photos of the Laughlin...

February 6, 2015 / by

Monsters and Earthquakes from Utah State University

We have just added two very interesting collections from Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library!San Francisco (CA) Earthquake Snapshots - This collection of 25 photographs taken by John Lorin Taylor document the aftermath of the earthquake of 1906.View of the Hall in ruins from Market Street...

January 30, 2015 / by

Making that pesky “Rights” field a little less pesky

Those of you who have submitted collections to the Mountain West Digital Library know that "Rights" is one of MWDL's eight required fields according to the MWDL Dublin Core Application Profile. The reason for this is that it's incredibly important for users to know if...

January 26, 2015 / by

January Harvesting Update

We've been adding a bunch of new collections in January and have a few more on track to be added this week! Here's what we've added recently:From Salt Lake Community College:Salt Lake Community College Culinary Arts Program Archives - There are over 800 menus in...

January 23, 2015 / by

Diversity of cultural heritage items: We can do better

We have done some goodOur colleagues at the Digital Public Library of America reviewed harvesting statistics from 2014 in a recent post, "Tracking DPLA’s growth in 2014." See full-sized graph.Of the hubs serving up metadata to the DPLA, the Mountain West Digital Library had the largest...

December 9, 2014 / by

New Collections in MWDL for November and early December!

Here is a quick summary of the great new collections that we've been adding to the MWDL over the past few weeks!From Salt Lake Community College, we have the Salt Lake Community College Audiovisual Archives and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Collection.SLCC: The Bottom...

November 25, 2014 / by

UVU’s Pioneers in Your Attic Collection

Last fall, many of the people in the MWDL network participated in the Pioneers in Your Attic project. The premise of the project was to have representatives from different digital libraries take their scanners on the road and encourage people to bring their family histories out...