E-Publishing

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...

November 20, 2014 / by

Congratulations to University of Nevada Reno on their Digital Collections Redesign!

Digital Collections at MWDL Partner University of Nevada Reno have a new site! Check out the new portal and explore their great digital resources.I was interested to see some of the new ways UNR is encouraging users to interact with their digital collections.You can help...

November 14, 2014 / by

MWDL Collections Word Cloud with Voyant Cirrus tool

I'm thinking a bit about the subject coverage across MWDL collections, and the patterns that emerge when we get collections on the same topics across the different states that MWDL serves. I'm just starting to explore the idea of doing some work with visualization tools,...

October 31, 2014 / by

Treats from the University of Idaho Digital Library

This Halloween MWDL is bringing you treats in the form of three newly added collections from the University of Idaho Digital Library. The three new collections are:The Lewiston Orchards Life Newsletter - This newsletter from the 1900s provides a window into the lives of a unique...

October 28, 2014 / by

MWDL Primo Outage November 1st and 2nd

There is a service upgrade to Primo happening over the weekend of November 1st and 2nd, which will result in the MWDL search being taken offline temporarily. The outage will start at approximately 9:00 pm on Saturday November 1st, and may last as long as...