MWDL and DPLA as research resourcesRebekah Cummings, Assistant Director

University of Utah, RLS ForumNovember 7, 2013

Roadmap

1. MWDL and DPLA overview

2. Search interface tips

What is the Mountain West

Digital Library?

What is the Mountain West

Digital Library?

• BYU• Dixie State• Salt Lake CC• Snow College• SUU• University of Utah

(Go Utes!) • Utah State Library

• Utah State University• Utah Valley University• Weber State • Westminster

In the beginning…

MWDL Growth

• 124 Collecting Institutions • 6 states

– Utah– Nevada– Arizona– Idaho– Hawaii– Montana

As of 2013…

Types of resources

Photographs, maps, artworks, scholarly documents, music, sounds, books, birth and death records, finding aids, and more!

Over 800,000 resources in 563

collections

For example…

Slave owner’s letter

Civil Rights PhotosConfession Letters

Where does the content come from?

MWDL

U of U

Weber

State

USU

Utah Valle

y

BYU

DPLA

• 124 Partners• 30 Hubs• 1 of 9 service hubs to

DPLA

What is DPLA?

“The Digital Public Library of America will make the cultural and

scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all.”

Tiered Infrastructure

1.Digital Commonwealth 2.Digital Library of Georgia 3.Empire State Digital Network4.Kentucky Digital Library 5.Minnesota Digital Library 6.North Carolina Digital Heritage 7.The Portal to Texas History 8.South Carolina Digital Library9.Mountain West Digital Library

“Leverage the existing infrastructure of the nation”

Searching MWDL

• Start at http://mwdl.org/• Ways to search:

– Basic– Advanced– By Partner– By Collection

Searching DPLADigital Public Library of America

• Search DPLA– Basic search– By place– By date– By exhibition– By bookshelf

Thanks!

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