Events

The MWDL Governing Body will hold its fall semi-annual meeting on November 5, 2025.

While Wikipedia edit-a-thons may sound like a daunting event opportunity, sharing experiences, guides, and best practices, can make editing an easy engagement opportunity for institutions contributing to Wikimedia Commons through DPLA. Jamie Flood has been organizing and supporting Wikipedia editing events for almost a decade,...

DLF programs stretch year-round, but they are perhaps best known for our signature event, the annual DLF Forum. DLF Forum welcomes digital library, archives, and museum practitioners from member institutions and beyond—for whom it serves as a meeting place, marketplace, and congress. As a meeting place, DLF...

Applications are open through December 1, 2025 for Spring 2026 internships (yes, they are paid!!) with Utah Sate Archives and Records Service. Please review this blog post for more details on positions and applications.

University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library is currently accepting applications for two (2) tenure-track Science and Engineering Librarian positions. Description: Come work in a student-centered library with a team that excels in supporting the teaching and research mission of the University of Utah. The...

The Call for Papers is now open for the Western History Association's 66th Annual Conference, October 21-24, 2026, in Portland, Oregon.  The 2026 conference theme, "Unsettled: New Wests, New Lessons," acknowledges how communities and scholars continue to expand our understanding of who prospered and suffered...

With Christine Fernsebner Eslao, Giovanna Fontenelle, and Jamie Flood. Join members of the Wikimedia Working Group for an overview of metrics and tracking tools across Wikimedia platforms. We will look at metrics and tools while offering advice for institutions currently contributing, or looking to get...

The Wikipedia for Cultural Heritage lecture series will end with a case study from a DPLA hub, the Minnesota Digital Library. Working together with a cohort of several of their contributing institutions, MDL utilized the DPLA Wikimedia pipeline to share over 375,000 images. One of the project’s coordinators, Sara...

Join Library of Congress onsite in Washington, D.C. for a free three-day professional development workshop, where you’ll learn and practice strategies for using primary sources with K-12 students. Three sessions will be offered in the summer of 2026: July 8-10, 2026 July 15-17, 2026 July...

Western Museum Association's 2026 Annual Meeting will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah on September 23-26, produced in partnership with the Utah Museums Association. With the theme of ASPIRE, WMA 2026 invites museum professionals to imagine boldly, reaching beyond inherited boundaries to shape futures not...

Hello everyone, The Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists will hold its 2026 Annual Meeting on May 14-16, 2026 (with a potential pre-conference workshop option on May 13th) in Cedar City, Utah at Southern Utah University’s Hunter Alumni Center. This year's theme will be "All the World's...

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) invites proposals for its “Pocket Burgundy” series. Prospective authors and writing teams can propose ideas for reports relevant to the information and cultural heritage communities. Selected authors and teams will be offered a stipend of $3,000 for...