Events

The DPLA Analytics Dashboard recently came back online. DPLA will host a demo and feedback session at 11 AM Mountain/10AM Pacific next Thursday, April 23, 2026. Register here

Theme: Preservision: Where We've Been and Where We're Going This year's Preservation West Symposium will be held November 5-6, 2026. Last year's Symposium was wonderful and we look forward to connecting with many from throughout the MWDL network again this year. A call for presentations...

The UALC Professional Development Committee (PDC) is calling for proposals for the Fall Professional Development Retreat!  This year’s retreat, “Community and Collaboration: Pursuing Connection in the Age of Technology,” will be held at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) Taylorsville Redwood Campus on Friday, October 16th,...

The MWDL Governing Body will hold its semi-annual meeting virtually on May 11 from 2:30-3:30 Mountain/1:30-2:30 Pacific. The group last met in November 2025. FY 2026 Governing Body membership  

Join the Linked Data Users Group of the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS) and the Program for Cooperative Cataloging’s EMCO Wikidata Community of Practice (CoP) for a free, semi-synchronous, week-long virtual event that explores Wikidata. No prior experience is necessary! Project staff will provide...

Teacher Librarian Day has officially transitioned into the TPS Western Region Conference. While the name has changed, the core mission remains the same: to inspire learning with diverse resources and unique perspectives. Come discover how educators throughout the Western Region are successfully bringing the Library...

Introduction The collaborative Utah Humanities/Utah Historical Society Oral History Program supports and deepens oral history work statewide. The goal of this program is to collect and transcribe oral histories, deposit the recorded interviews and transcripts with the Utah Historical Society Collections and other public deposition...

The LD4 2026 Conference (Sept 28-30, 2026; online) invites proposals for presentations, lightning talks, and workshops that highlight the application of linked data and its impact on knowledge systems, with a focus on galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. Possible topics could include: From pilot to...

Save the date! Friday, August 7, 2026 will be our annual MWDL Members Meeting. Our agenda and activities are still being planned, but we will gather in-person at the newly-opened Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT to discuss current topics such as: ADA...

Join us on September 22, 2026 for a day of Utah history at the inaugural Utah History Summit! This event is designed for Utah’s broad history community, including museums, historical societies, academia, and independent practitioners. Together, we’ll celebrate our shared passion, spark new connections, and...

Libraries and other heritage web sites, especially our digital collections and catalogs full of high-value data, are contending with a surge of automated traffic. Aggressive botnets of AI scrapers and crawlers overwhelm servers, causing site performance issues and downtime affecting the legitimate users we serve....

Save the date for this year's virtual DLF Forum! The event will be held online only on October 14-15, 2026. Stay tuned for more details.