Join us for our first ever Quarterly Collections Roundup! Collection managers from MWDL hubs who submitted new collections in late 2024 and early 2025 will be on hand to share more details about the most recent crop of content. Where: Zoom When: Monday, April 14...
Utah State Archives is currently accepting applications for summer 2025 internships through May 1! Please see their blog for more details and application process.
PA Digital's Rights Team will host Copyright Office Hours on May 6 at 12 p.m. Mountain/11 AM Pacific on Zoom (please register in advance). Please bring your questions about copyright and digital collections, including questions about rights statements, fair use, and the public domain. To submit...
Mark your calendars for the upcoming 2025 Area Studies Teaching & Collections Symposium on May 7-8, 2025 (May 7 at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library and May 8 at Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library). Each day includes unique content! Engage...
Join DPLA as we spotlight the recent relaunch of Michigan Memories, a website that allows users to search the online collections of cultural institutions all around the state. Michigan Memories is the Michigan-centric counterpart to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), and the new...
As part of DPLA's ongoing effort to serve as a bridge between their institutional partners and emerging technologies, DPLA has started to explore the benefits of decentralized storage. Long-term storage on the decentralized web is one approach to ensuring the protection of cultural artifacts and...
MWDL's Governing Body will hold its semi-annual meeting virtually on Thursday, May 22. The Governing Body last met on November 21, 2024. New service terms begin July 1, 2025 and we will be choosing a new Chair. Many thanks to our outgoing Chair, Emily Boss...
How has another year flown by so quickly? Please join us on Friday, August 8, 2025 for our annual in-person member meeting! We'll get reacquainted, welcome new faces, and get caught up with all the latest around the network. Registration closed July 18. Our agenda...
Featuring Mary Mark Ockerbloom. The “Wikipedia Workbook for Cultural Institutions” (PDF link) is designed to help Wikipedians, Wikimedians in Residence and interested GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) to survey opportunities for engagement with Wikipedia and its related projects. The Workbook gives an overview of key...
The PA Digital rights team will host an event on Wednesday, October 8, at 11:30AM Mountain/10:30 AM Pacific on U.S. Copyright Law and Creative Commons Licensing. Danielle Steinhart will provide a brief introduction to U.S. copyright law and Creative Commons licensing. She will talk about...
Giovanna Fontenelle, Christine Fernsebner Eslao Jamie Flood, and Dominic Byrd-McDevitt will together look at how DPLA contributors and other cultural heritage institutions are using Commons and Wikipedia beyond uploads. They will share about updating and improving metadata for Commons uploads, and look at projects about...
The Preservation West Symposium is a professional gathering that will bring together experts in the fields of preservation, conservation, and care of historic documents and artifacts, as well as university students aspiring to enter the field, helping us build capability by providing a platform for...