1. Overview of theMountain West Digital LibraryThe Power of Partnership

2. Overview The MWDL Collaborative Value of Partnership Working with an MWDL Hub Sharing Regionally: MWDL Interoperability Sharing Nationally: Digital Public Library ofAmerica Open Invitation to Participate 3. Mountain WestDigital Library Formed in 2001 as aprogram of the UtahAcademicLibrary Consortium 4. Mountain WestDigital LibraryGoals: Help more organizations to digitizematerials about our regions history andcultural heritage Maintain a public portal to pull togetherthe digital collections in the MountainWest region at mwdl.org 5. MWDLDiscovery portalDigital library communityDigital Public Library of Americaon-ramp 6. http://mwdl.org 7. Types of resourcesPhotographs, maps, artworks,scholarly documents, music, sounds,books, birth and death records,finding aids, and more! 8. Digital LibraryCommunity History in Your Attic Public Library Partnerships Project Digitization Mini-Contracts MWDL Webinar Series Task Forces In-person training 9. Public LibraryPartnerships ProjectTraining for Public LibrariansPublic Librarians workshop, May 2014 10. Partners164 institutions Academic libraries Academic departments Archives Historical societies Museums National heritage institutions Natural history associations Public libraries Publishers Academic presses State Libraries Other state agencies 11. PartnersIn six states: Utah Nevada Arizona Idaho Montana Hawaii 12. MWDL Staff Sandra McIntyreDirector Rebekah CummingsAssistant Director/Outreach Librarian Anna NeatrourDigital Metadata Librarian Our newest addition!Evan YoungWeb DevelopmentAssistant 13. DPLA Onramp 14. DPLA Onramp 15. Governance andConsultation UALC Council of Directors UALC Digitization Committee Advisory Committee (in formation) 16. Funding and Support UALC funding DPLA sub-grants 2013-2015 In-kind support from Marriott Library 17. Digitization and hostingWORKING WITHAN MWDL HUB 18. Tiered InfrastructureThree tiered model Collections Partners Tier (Partners) Own and manage collections Hosting Tier (Hubs) -Host the digital materials Central AggregatingServer Tier (MWDL) Harvest metadata from hubs 19. Digital LibraryCommunity 20. Tiered Services Distributed network Flexible and scalable Consolidates equipment and expertise Reinforces standards Facilitates collaboration 21. Digital AssetsManagement SystemsNW DigitalArchives: UtahEAD Files BYU FindingAidsRepository 22. Hub Services Digitization Metadata Assignment/ Assistance Online hosting in digital assetsmanagement system Metadata shared for MWDL harvest Long-term preservation (some hubs) 23. MWDL Services Harvesting metadata/aggregation Training for new partners Central search portal Sharing access with DPLA Collaboration on standardsand best practices Platform for collaboration 24. Infrastructure:Ex Libris Primo An integrated discovery system Powerful harvesting of digital collections Powerful searching and faceting Did you mean...? suggestions Online delivery via pointing to link 25. International Protocols Open Archives Initiative (OAI)for transmitting metadata over the Webhttp://openarchives.org Based on XML Commonly used for harvesting 26. Working together to make it happenINTEROPERABILITY 27. Standards and Policies 28. Partnership Agreementhttp://mwdl.org/docs/MWDL_Partnership_Agreement_ver12_2008-03-14.pdf 29. Standard Prices 30. Metadata Standard Qualified Dublin Core 8 required fields; 2other mandatory-if-applicablefields Preservation fieldsrecommended 31. Imaging Standard Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR)document:Digital Imaging Best PracticesThe planisphere of Copernicus, or Copernicus' hypothesisof the entire universe, in a planar view University of Utah 32. Setting Up aRepositoryhttp://mwdl.org/getinvolved/repository_setup.php 33. Submitting aCollection 34. Jumping on boardOPENINVITATIONAn invitation to an inspection and wetting-down party.Brigham Young University Hawaii Campus. 35. Invitation to repositorymanagers1. Open up your metadata for harvest2. Link to MWDL and DPLA on your webpages3. Collaborate onstandards andcontrolled vocabularies4. Be curious about new opportunities forcooperation and sharing 36. Invitation to collectionmanagers Contact:Rebekah CummingsMWDL Assistant Director(801) 587-8893rebekah.cummings@utah.edu Not quite ready? We can help you get there! New partner interview Hub services Training and support 37. Get Involvedwith MWDL Resources for members and perspectivemembers:http://mwdl.org/getinvolved/getinvolved.php Like us on Facebook + follow on Twitter(@MWDigLib) Check out our blog:http://mwdlnews.blogspot.com/ 38. Fall Webinar Serieshttp://mwdl.org/events/webinars/webinarschedule.php 39. MWDLPartnership Summit Open to any eligible groupthat has agreed to MWDLPartnership Agreement Discuss future directions forMWDL Network with colleagues! 40. Questions? Sandra McIntyreDirector(801) 585-0969sandra.mcintyre@utah.edu