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…
This quarter, we added four new collections from both new and existing content partners! Milwaukee Public Library has been working hard on these two new collections: The CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) Arts Program Photographs collection includes photographs taken between February and May of 1976 in Milwaukee, documenting life during the 1976 Bicentennial. After… Read More…
This post was researched and written by Ashley Morrison, a practicum student with Recollection Wisconsin in Spring 2022. Ashley will earn her MLIS from the iSchool at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May 2022. Originally titled “NFLO News” for the National Lesbian Feminist Organization – La Crosse Chapter, the Leaping La Crosse News was a… Read More…
The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear, like this one: JPEG, WAVE, MOV, PDF – what do they all mean? Which should we use for things we’re digitizing? Digital file formats quickly give way to alphabet soup: JPEG, WAVE, MOV, PDF…Here are several… Read More…
Phone books from the mid-century are crucial data sources for a new toolkit offered by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR): “Through the Cracks: Preventing Vapor Intrusion Exposure in Wisconsin and Keeping Children and Families Safe.” Libraries have a unique opportunity to support public health and… Read More…
2021 was a year in which Wisconsin’s cultural heritage organizations continued to grapple with fewer resources, fewer staff hours, and less certainty about what the next day would look like. And, pandemic variants, staffing shortages, and budget reductions will continue to disrupt service for the foreseeable future. Yet, the work of Recollection Wisconsin and our… Read More…
This survey is now closed. Thank you for sharing your input with us! We are looking for input from social studies educators who are teaching grades 3-5! A big part of what we do at Recollection Wisconsin is provide primary resources and educational materials for Wisconsin history teachers and classrooms – and we’d like to… Read More…
The Digital Readiness Community of Practice has been an NHPRC-funded project at Recollection Wisconsin since 2019, and we’ve spent the past two years planning for, growing, learning about and implementing the statewide network of resources and practitioners. The Community of Practice and digital readiness efforts will continue to be a focus of Recollection Wisconsin, though… Read More…
Recollection Wisconsin has been named to Family Tree Magazine’s list of Best State Websites for Genealogy for 2021. This list recognizes the best go-to online resources for genealogy researchers in each state, Washington, D.C., and US territories including Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and Guam. We are honored to be named among these excellent organizations supporting genealogists across the… Read More…
This month, Recollection Wisconsin added three new collections from new content partners and a new collection from a current content partner! The Verona Public Library Local History digitization project is a growing selection of digital materials culled from the physical archives of its Local History Collection which currently includes photographs, city directories, and community writing… Read More…
