Celebrating 120 Years of Providing Access to Wisconsin State Documents

Guest post by Abbigail Swanton, Division for Libraries and Technology, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Reposted from Wisconsin Libraries for Everyone. The National Archives is celebrating October as American Archives Month to highlight how history is made accessible to you. Wisconsin is celebrating, too! For nearly 120 years, Wisconsin libraries have been providing access to Wisconsin state… Read More…

Major Richard Bong (1920-1945)

This digital exhibit is provided by guest curator Autumn Wolter, intern at the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, Wisconsin. View the full digital collection at https://content.mpl.org/digital/collection/BVHC. Richard (Dick) Ira Bong, America’s Ace of Aces, was born on September 24, 1920 in Superior, Wisconsin to Carl and Dora Bong. He was their firstborn… Read More…

The Toolkit: Wrapping Up a Digitization Project

The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear, like this one: My digitization project will end later this year. What do I need to do to wrap up this work? All good things must come to an end, right? Whether grant-funded or supported by… Read More…

The Toolkit: You asked, let’s chat!

The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear. This month, we’re featuring a few frequently-asked questions posed by local history practitioners during our summer Digital Readiness Fairs. Any advice for getting started with a digitization project? How should we create metadata to allow a… Read More…

Sharing Local History Resources: A Digital Readiness Case Study

You digitized some of your favorite and most engaging materials from your local history collection – now what? Some local history organizations digitize collections to facilitate reference requests or reduce wear and tear on their oldest or most frequently handled materials. Others share images on their organization’s website or social media sites to generate community… Read More…

The Toolkit: Inheriting a Digital Project

The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear, like this one: Help! I inherited my organization’s digitization project and I don’t know where to start! Some of us have the luxury of building a digitization project or program from scratch. Others, though, take on… Read More…

Wisconsin Fish Stories

Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote, “In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” But in much of Wisconsin, once the lakes thaw, some thoughts turn to sport fishing, particularly on the first Saturday in May which signals the opening of fishing season. Watch this online video exhibit on the history of recreational fishing… Read More…

Digital readiness and mid-point musings

The Building a Statewide Digital Readiness Community of Practice project has passed its halfway point! We’ve submitted our mid-year report to the NHPRC, and it feels like a good time to reflect on our accomplishments, challenges, and observations.  When we proposed the project in early 2020, the original plan called for the Launch Committee and… Read More…

Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center: A Digital Readiness Case Study

Located in Superior, Wisconsin, the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center preserves and honors the memory of Major Richard I. (Dick) Bong and all veterans of World War II and subsequent conflicts, and provides educational resources for the Twin Ports area community and beyond. A native of Poplar, Wisconsin, Major Bong was known as America’s… Read More…

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