UALC’s Mountain West Digital Library Introduced to Utah Educators

October 5, 2009 -- SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) was introduced to Utah teachers at the Utah Education Association (UEA) conference at the South Towne Expo Center in Sandy, Utah on October 1-2, 2009. Members of the Utah Academic Library Consortium’s (UALC) Digitization Committee exhibited the compilations of digital collections from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, and historical societies in Utah, Nevada, and Idaho to hundreds of interested educators. This was MWDL's first year at UEA. “The response was amazing,” said Kim Rollins, UALC Public Affairs Coordinator. “Most of the people we talked to couldn’t believe such a valuable resource was free to the their students and to the public.”

More information on the Mountain West Digital Library can be found at mwdl.org

MWDL Site Shows Increase in Visits

The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) is showing a marked increase in site visits. The last 30 days has shown an increase of about 500 visits, bringing the total number of visits last month to 3,440. MWDL had been getting approximately 100-200 new visits each month, but has recently seen a peak in new users, possibly due to MWDL being mentioned as the American Library Association's "Digital Library of the Week," and then being highlighted in The Scout Report.

Mountain West Digital Library Highlighted in Internet Resource Magazine

The Mountain West Digital Library was featured in the February 27, 2009 issue of The Scout Report. The Scout Report is the flagship publication of the Internet Scout Project. It provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet. A team of professional librarians and subject matter experts select, research, and annotate each resource. The Scout Report can be viewed at:
https://www.umail.utah.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=97cef29b23694624b8c08a13b28a7924&URL=http%3a%2f%2fscout.wisc.edu%2fReports%2fScoutReport%2f2009%2fscout-090227.php

Mountain West Digital Library is "Digital Library of the Week"

February 5, 2009 -- The Mountain West Digital Library was selected as Digital Library of the Week on ALA's ilovelibraries.org site for the first week of February. The web site can be found at:
https://www.umail.utah.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=0af1d881048949a1988f30c2a00d5cab&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ilovelibraries.ala.org%2fdiglibweekly%2f

New Collections, Hub Added to Mountain West Digital Library

12/22/2008 -- The Mountain West Digital Library had an unusually large net increase of over 18,000 records with 25 new digital collections. MWDL now serves users with access to over 220,000 items in 263 collections. MWDL also has a new, ninth hosting hub in the MWDL network, Utah Valley University Library. Go to http://mwdl.org/ to access these new collections:

Brigham Young University:
*Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Finding Aids

Southern Utah University:
*Allen Leigh Photographs
*Iron County Extension Office
*Southern Utah State College
*Southern Utah University Drama Slides

University of Nevada, Las Vegas:
*Welcome Home, Howard! (Howard Hughes Photograph Collection)

University of Utah:
*University of Utah Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Finding Aids
*University of Utah Photograph Archives
*University of Utah Theses and Dissertations
*University of Utah UScholar Works

Utah State Archives:
*Utah Fifth District Beaver County Case Indexes
*Utah State Archives Series Inventories

Utah State Historical Society:
*Peoples of Utah
*Utah State Historical Society Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Finding Aids

Utah State University:
*Cookery and Culture
*Elsner Sculptures and Sketchbooks
*FolkBistro
*Utah State University Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Finding Aids

Utah Valley University:
*Utah Technical College Yearbooks
*Utah Valley University Departmental Publications
*Utah Valley University Faculty Collection
*Utah Valley University Library Collection
*Utah Valley University Student Theses Collection
*Wilson W. Sorensen Photograph Collection

Weber State University:
*Utah Construction-Utah International Photographs
*Weber College Yearbook 1924-1963
*Ogden City Churches
*The Signpost - A Decade Sampling
*Weber State University Stewart Library Special Collections Registers

UALC's Mountain West Digital Library Reaches 244 Collections

October 27, 2008 -- The Utah Academic Library Consortium’s Mountain West Digital Library hit a landmark number of digitized collections this month, with more than 244 educational, civic and historical society anthologies now being made available online. The successful joint project now includes over 202,000 records and can be accessed at http://www.mwdl.org/ .

The Utah Academic Library Consortium, an organization of all Utah academic libraries and the Utah State Library, met Friday, October 24, 2008 at Weber State University to discuss their latest cooperative ventures, including future development of the MWDL.