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.

1. Collaborating in the Mountain West
Access to Digital Resources and a Whole Lot More

2. Formed in 2001:
A program of the
Utah Academic
Library Consortium
Mountain West
Digital Library

3. Goal
Share primary sources
of the Mountain West
for broad access
online

4. Strategies
 Discovery portal
 Digital library community
 Digital Public Library of America on-ramp

5. http://mwdl.org

6. Types of resources
in MWDL
• Photographs
• Maps, plans, and drawings
• Artworks
• Scholarly documents (“institutional repository”)
• Music, other sounds
• Videoclips, animations, Powerpoint presentations
• Books
• Minutes, log books, plans, bills and ordinances
• Birth and death records
• Finding aids (“series guides,” “inventories”)

8. 159 Partners
• Academic libraries
• Academic departments
• Archives (counties, states,
etc.)
• Historical societies
• Museums
• National heritage institutions
• Natural history associations
• Public libraries
• Publishers
• Academic presses
• State Libraries
• Other state agencies

9. 159 Partners
In these states:
• Utah
• Nevada
• Arizona
• Idaho
• Montana
• Hawaii

10. 31 Hosting Hubs
Provide hosting in
a digital assets
management
system and other
digital services

11. Distributed Network

12. The growing
national network

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

15. MWDL Infrastructure
Support
• J. Willard Marriott Library at University
of Utah
• Help from other partner institutions

16. Digital Library
Community
Linked Data Workshop
Public Librarians digitization training

17. Digital Library
Community
Public Librarians digitization training

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

20. Governance and
Consultation
• UALC Council of Directors
• UALC Digitization Committee
• Advisory Committee (in formation)

21. Funding
• UALC funding
• DPLA grants 2013-2015

22. Partnership Agreement
http://mwdl.org/docs/MWDL_Partnership_Agreement_ver12_2008-
03-14.pdf

23. Standard Prices

24. • Qualified Dublin Core
• 8 required fields; 2
other mandatory-if-
applicable fields
• Preservation fields
recommended
Metadata Standard

25. Setting Up a
Repository
http://mwdl.org/getinvolved/repository_setup.php

26. Sharing with DPLA

27. Part of the
national network
Robert Darnton in Utah

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

29. MWDL service hub

30. The Digital Public Library of America
will make the cultural and
scientific heritage of humanity
available, free of charge, to all.

31. Data Licensing

32. Questions?
Sandra McIntyre
MWDL Director
(801) 585-0969
sandra.mcintyre@utah.edu
Twitter: @sinawava, @MWDigLib
Blog: http://mwdlnews.blogspot.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/mountainwest
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