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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
- Mountain West Digital Library Partnership Agreement (pdf)
- Content Development Policy and Guidelines (2006, in revision)
- BCR's CDP Digital Imaging Best Practices Version 2.0 (pdf)
- CDP Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices (pdf)
- Metadata Guidelines for the Mountain West Digital Library (pdf)
- MWDL Digitization Price List 2008 (pdf)
Hosting Hubs
Utah
- J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
- Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
- Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University
- Gerald Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University
- Stewart Library, Weber State University
- Utah State Archives
- Utah Valley University Library
- Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
- Digital Commons Institutional Repository, Utah State University
Nevada
Collections Partners
Utah
- Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library
- Delta City Library
- Dialogue Foundation
- Emery County Archives
- Green River (City), Utah
- Green River Public Library
- Health Education Assets Library
- Mormon History Association
- Murray City Public Library
- Museum of Art, Brigham Young University
- North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
- 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, American West Center
- 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
- U.S. Forest Service, Dixie National Forest
- 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
