MWDL AS A SERVICE HUB FOR THE DIGITAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OF AMERICA: UPDATES AND PLANS
Sandra McIntyre, Director
Rebekah Cummings, Assistant Director/Outreach Librarian
Thursday, December 5, 2013
11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon MST / 10:00–11:00 a.m. PST
The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) provides a central search portal to over 800,000 digital resources from memory institutions in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and Hawaii. As a program of the Utah Academic Library Consortium for the last twelve years, MWDL brings together 122 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 and Rebekah will talk about how MWDL became a Service Hub for the DPLA and what being a Service Hub entails. They will also discuss upcoming MWDL/DPLA announcements and events such as the digitization mini-contracts program and the DPLA Community Representatives program.
Archived recording of this webinar is available at the MWDL Events page.
Resources for this Webinar
- DPLA Hubs
- The Digital Public Library of America: An Introduction (Video, 8 minutes)
- Emily Gore, “Digital Public Library of America Has Launched DPLA” (Library of Congress YouTube page, 31 minutes)
- Archived Webinar Recording
- PowerPoint (PDF, 6.8 MB)
DPLA Press and Promotion
- “What is the DPLA?” (Library Journal article by John Palfrey)
- “50 Best Websites 2013” (Time Magazine, Harry McCracken)
- “The Library of Utopia” (MIT Technology Review, Nicholas Carr)
- “Combining the Nation’s Digitized Libraries, All in One Place” (NPR, Laura Sydell)
SLCC Digital Archives 