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Utah Academic Library Consortium
The Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC) is an organization of Utah libraries of not-for-profit educational and research universities and institutions.UALC Website: http://ualc.net/ UALC was established in 1971 to improve the availability and delivery of information services to the higher education community and the State of Utah. It was formed to maximize state resources, foster research, and advocate for excellent library resources. In 2001, members of the Utah Academic Library Consortium founded the Mountain West Digital Library, a digital library aggregator for memory institutions in the Mountain West. Since 2013, the Mountain West Digital Library has been the regional service hub for the Digital Public Library of America The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a US project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public digital library. It officially launched on April 18, 2013, after two and a half years of dev ... for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain West Digital Library
The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) is a centralized discovery portal for digital resources from libraries, archives, museums, government agencies, and historical societies in the Mountain West region of the United States. MWDL aggregates metadata from these memory institutions and provides online access to their cultural heritage and scholarly resources at http://mwdl.org. The MWDL provides services to a widespread digital library community and serves as the regional service hub to the Digital Public Library of America for Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Montana, and Hawaii. History The Mountain West Digital Library was formed in 2001 as a program of the Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC). Members of UALC created the Mountain West Digital Library to provide one-stop searching for users to access the digital collections of UALC institutions, including the University of Utah, Brigham Young University, Utah State University, Southern Utah University, and others. The MWDL ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
