Presentation by Sandra McIntyre, director of the Mountain West Digital Library, a digital collaborative serving memory institutions in the Mountain West states of the U.S. Part of "Librarians as Digital Leaders: Collaborating in the Development and Use of Digitized Collections," a panel at the American Library Association Annual Conference sponsored by ACRL and led by Maura Marx, deputy director of the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), in Las Vegas, June 28, 2014.
13. Services from Hubs
• Digitization services
• Metadata assignment services
(some hubs)
• Online hosting in digital assets
management system
• Metadata shared for MWDL harvest
• Long-term preservation
(some hubs)
14. Services from
MWDL Staff
• Facilitating standards development by
the collaborative
• Training in assigning metadata
• Data enhancement services
• Aggregation into Digital Public Library of
America
• Assistance with digital exhibits
18. Current initiatives
• Digital Assets Management System
Interest Group
• Geospatial Discovery Task Force
• Scanning events: “History in Your Attic”
• Linked Data Task Force
• Digital Preservation Task Force
• Data Curation Interest Group
19. MWDL Staff
• Sandra McIntyre
Director
• Rebekah Cummings
Assistant Director/
Outreach Librarian
• Anna Neatrour
Digital Metadata
Librarian
• Nick Hayen
Web Portal Assistant
Nick, Rebekah, Sandra, and Anna
28. Open Access of
Digital Collections
• Open Access movement
• Increasingly networked environment =
higher expectations
• IMLS requirements and other government
funding that mandates openness
• U.S. Registrar of Copyrights, 3/20/2013:
“Call for Updates to U.S. Copyright Law”
• White House commitment to Open Data