by Katie Stilp, Appleton Public Library Local History Librarian Appleton Public Library is fortunate to be a host site for the Curating Community Digital Collections program this summer. When I began the position of Local History Librarian a year ago, I inherited hundreds of photographs – both digitized and born digital. Our digitized photographs include… Read More…
Digital Preservation
Organizing Oral Histories at the Bong Veterans Historical Center
My name is Laura Vavrosky and I’m thrilled to be part of the Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC) program this summer. After taking several classes in Library and Information Studies through the University of Wisconsin–Madison, I’m eager to apply my knowledge of metadata and information organization to a practical cause. The 3-day workshop all CCDC… Read More…
Digital Preservation Work at Door County Library
My name is Laura Kayacan, the Adult Services Librarian at Door County Library in Sturgeon Bay, and I am one of the Supervisors for this summer’s CCDC program. I look forward to Georgia Brown’s help with the digital preservation of our files, and to the guidance from Mentor Sarah Titus, who is nearby at St…. Read More…
CCDC Student Georgia Brown Begins Work at Door County Library
My name is Georgia Brown, and I am about to start my final year of the coordinated History and Library Science Master’s program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. I am so excited to be working with Door County Library in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin this summer on their digital preservation practices. Studying history really highlights how… Read More…
CCDC Projects Begin
And…we’re off and running! Curating Community Digital Collections 2019 participants kicked off their summer projects at our digital preservation immersion workshop in Madison, Wisconsin, May 21-23. … Read More…
Students Share CCDC at Midwest Archives Conference
This April, first-year Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC) cohort and UW Madison iSchool graduate students Jessica Behrman and Kristina Warner presented a poster at the Midwest Archives Conference in Detroit, Michigan on “Curating Community Digital Collections: Digital Preservation at Small Cultural Heritage Institutions.”… Read More…
New Partnership to Support AV Archiving
Recollection Wisconsin is excited to announce that we are an anchor site for the Community Archiving Workshop Regional Training of Trainers (TOT) program. The Community Archiving Workshop (CAW) is a project of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) designed to address the challenge of obsolescence in audiovisual collections. First launched in 2010, the CAW model is designed to help community… Read More…
Six Questions with Amy Rudersdorf
We’ve had the good fortune to collaborate with AVP Senior Consultant, Amy Rudersdorf, for the past year. Amy has been instrumental in helping us develop the workshop and training content for Curating Community Digital Collections, as well as providing advice on a range of questions related to digital preservation and serving as a “mentor to our mentors.” As such, we thought you might like to know a bit more about Amy, her background and experience, and thoughts about digital stewardship work. … Read More…
Announcing the 2019 CCDC Host Sites
Congratulations to the following Wisconsin cultural heritage institutions and information agencies selected to participate in Year Two of the IMLS-funded Curating Community Digital Collections program: Appleton Public Library, Appleton College of Menominee Nation, Keshena Door County Library, Sturgeon Bay Douglas County Historical Society, Superior Lake Mills Aztalan Historical Society, Lake Mills McMillan Memorial Library /… Read More…
Curating Community Digital Collections – Points of Pride 2018
Our sincere thanks to everyone who supported and/or participated in Curating Community Digital Collections in 2018. We are grateful for your time and continued support of digital stewardship work throughout Wisconsin (and beyond!). Thank you CCDC students Jodi Kiffmeyer, Jessica Behrman, Sarah Lange, Kristina Warner, Cameron Fontaine and Steve Moray; mentors Stacey Erdman, Jesse Henderson,… Read More…
