Mountain West Digital Library

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About the Digital Library

The Mountain West Digital Library is a portal to digital resources from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, and Hawaii. The MWDL has these goals:

Create a distributed digital repository of significant, rare, and/or unique resources from the libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions of the Mountain West region.
Provide a public portal accessing digital collections in the Mountain West for the benefit of MWDL partners, the scholarly community at large, and the general public.
Expand the digital library vision and environment for the Mountain West region, and support the digital library development efforts of Collections Partners, including colleges, universities, public libraries, school libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, municipalities, counties, state agencies, and other entities as approved by the UALC Council.

Sponsorship

The Mountain West Digital Library is a program of the Utah Academic Library Consortium, as part of its goal to improve the availability and delivery of library and information services. Support comes from these sources:

Utah Academic Library Consortium
Institute of Museum and Library Services funding under the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Utah State Library
Private donations to the MWDL Partners
Contributed time and equipment from the MWDL Partners

Policies and Guidelines

The Metadata Task Force of the UALC Digitization Committee released the new Mountain West Digital Library Dublin Core Application Profile on June 1, 2010. MWDL collection managers and metadata creators should use this Application Profile to guide creation of new metadata records. This document supersedes the 2006 Metadata Guidelines for the Mountain West Digital Library and the CDP Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices for use with metadata harvested into the MWDL.

Hosting Hubs

Utah

Nevada

Collections Partners

Utah

Brigham Young University - Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University - Museum of Art
Bryner Pioneer Museum
Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Springville
Delta City Library
Dialogue Foundation
Dixie State College
Emery County Archives
Frontier Homestead State Park
Green River City
Green River Public Library
Health Education Assets Library
LDS Business College
Mendon City
Mormon History Association
Murray (UT) Museum
North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
Orem Heritage Museum
Orem Public Library
Park City Historical Society and Museum
Provo City
Provo City Library
Salt Lake Community College Libraries
Snow College - Lucy A. Phillips Library
Southern Utah University - Gerald R. Sherratt Library
Topaz Museum
Uintah County Library
University of Utah
University of Utah - American West Center
University of Utah - Brain Institute
University of Utah - College of Architecture and Planning
University of Utah - College of Art
University of Utah - Hinckley Institute of Politics
University of Utah - J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah - S. J. Quinney Law Library
University of Utah - Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library
University of Utah - Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
University of Utah - University Press
U.S. Forest Service - Dixie National Forest
Utah Arts Council
Utah Council of Land Surveyors
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah
Utah State Archives
Utah State Historical Society
Utah State Library
Utah State University - Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah Valley University Library
Weber State University - Stewart Library
Westminster College - Giovale Library

Nevada

Great Basin Association
Great Basin Museum
Great Basin National Heritage Area
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, University Libraries
University of Nevada, Reno, University Libraries

Idaho

Brigham Young University Idaho - David O. McKay Library
North Bingham County District Library -- Shelley, Idaho

Hawaii

Brigham Young University Hawaii