Last summer, our CCDC students worked with their host sites and mentors to develop digital preservation policies, workflows, and other documentation. Selected examples of these documents are now available on the CCDC website for other cultural heritage organizations to review and adapt for their own digital stewardship work. CCDC 2018 Resources/Student-created policies, workflows and other documents: https://recollectionwisconsin.org/digipres/2018resources… Read More…
Madison Public Library’s Living History Project
Recently added to Recollection Wisconsin and DPLA, the Living History Project is a multifaceted community history initiative launched by the Madison Public Library earlier this year. The goal of the project is to work with community members and organizations to gather and preserve Madison history. Within the larger project are several collections made up of… Read More…
Recollection Wisconsin Staff Share Projects Around the State (and Beyond!)
We’ve been on the road this fall, promoting Recollection Wisconsin and our projects that champion digital stewardship of local history resources –- Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC) and Listening to War: Digitizing Wisconsin’s Wartime Oral Histories. Here’s a recap of our adventures! We rolled into La Crosse, Wisconsin on October 24th for the 2018 Wisconsin… Read More…
Digitization and Public Libraries: SCLS Workshop
Workshop presented for South Central Library System directors meeting, Sun Prairie, November 15, 2018…. Read More…
CCDC 2019: Apply to Participate!
We’re now accepting applications from Wisconsin libraries, archives, museums and historical societies to participate in Year Two of our IMLS-funded Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC) program. In 2019, CCDC will support a cohort of ten teams. Each team will include a graduate student from the iSchool at UW-Madison or the School of Information Studies at… Read More…
Building the Community: NEDCC Symposium Keynote
Keynote presentation by Emily Pfotenhauer, WiLS, for a digital preservation symposium coordinated by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), Boston, November 9, 2018…. Read More…
CCDC Lightning Talk: Creating Community Through Digital Futures
Curating Community Digital Collections lightning talk by Vicki Tobias, WiLS, for Creating Community Through Digital Futures, a symposium hosted by the Art Institute of Chicago, November 1, 2018…. Read More…
CCDC: Collaborating to Build Digital Capacity
In this panel, participating students and site supervisors shared their experiences and lessons learned from the Summer 2018 IMLS-funded Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC) cohort. Presented for the Wisconsin Library Association annual meeting in La Crosse, October 25, 2018…. Read More…
Recollection Wisconsin at Fall Conferences
Are you headed to the Wisconsin Library Association conference in La Crosse or the Local History-Historic Preservation conference in Elkhart Lake later this month? Say hi to the Recollection Wisconsin team! CCDC Project Coordinator Vicki Tobias and Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager Emily Pfotenhauer will be in the WLA Exhibit Hall, Booth 13, Wednesday and Thursday… Read More…
Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference 2018
Registration is now open for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#UMDCC18) at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota November 8-9. Join your digital collections colleagues for 1.5 days of networking, sharing of best practices, and hands-on learning. View conference schedule Register The Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference features: Keynote speaker Abigail Potter (Digital… Read More…
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