Digital Collection Road Trip - Mountain West Digital Library: Sharing the Digital Collections of a Region

The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) provides a central search portal to over 700,000 digital resources about Utah, Nevada, Idaho, and Arizona. As a program of the Utah Academic Library Consortium for the last twelve years, MWDL brings together more than 60 partners, including academic libraries, public libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and government agencies to share expertise and resources for digitization, hosting, and aggregated search. As one of the first six service hubs to the Digital Public Library of America, MWDL provides the on-ramp for DPLA participation to memory institutions in the Mountain West. Sandra will talk about how the MWDL network came together and how partners work together across the region. She will also discuss the different perspectives often offered by larger aggregations of digital materials, and increasing open access to digital collections.

Host: Russell Palmer
Presenter: Sandra McIntyre, Program Director, Mountain West Digital Library

Date: Monday, August 26th 2013
Time: 1:00-2:00 ET

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