Hi! I’m Jessica Behrman, and I am about to enter my second year at the Information School at UW-Madison. My practicum this summer is with the La Crosse Public Library Archives, where I’m working on creating workflows for digital photograph ingestion, migrating existing content into new digital collections, and implementing quality control measures going forward…. Read More…
Hello, I’m Kristina Warner! I am starting my second year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the Information School specializing in archival management. This summer I am working with the Outagamie Waupaca Library System in Appleton, Wisconsin. The biggest projects that we are working on are creating a digital preservation policy, workflow and data management… Read More…
My name is Cameron Fontaine and I am a UW-Milwaukee MLIS student working with the Manitowoc County Historical Society through the CCDC program. The Manitowoc County Historical Society is a gorgeous site comprised of historic buildings and artifacts which serve as a sort of living museum, the Pinecrest Historical Village. They host scores of school… Read More…
My name is Steve Moray and I am a graduate student at UW-Milwaukee in a coordinated MA History/MLIS degree program concentrating in archives. I am working with the College of Menominee Nation Library in Keshena, Wisconsin to help preserve their digital collections. It’s still early on in the process, but so far I have organized… Read More…
Hello! I’m Jodi Kiffmeyer, a student at UW-Madison’s iSchool. Last semester I rediscovered a passion for family and community history while taking a genealogy course at the iSchool. Unfortunately, I also discovered that it’s not always easy to find historical information online when your family comes from rural northern Wisconsin, as mine does. That’s one… Read More…
On May 22, Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC) participants convened at the Lowell Center in Madison, Wisconsin for an intensive training experience – an immersion workshop focused on digital preservation. The event also functioned as the official launch of CCDC’s year one summer projects. Over three days, the workshop offered a range of presentations and… Read More…
We are excited to announce the participants in our first IMLS-funded Curating Community Digital Collections cohort! This summer, each team — made up of a supervisor at a host library or museum, a library school grad student and a professional mentor — will work together to plan for improved management and organization of the host… Read More…
Do you have a digital preservation project on your list of new year’s resolutions? Are you starting to acquire digital materials without a plan to adequately deal with them? Perhaps you already have a few preservation projects in mind but don’t know where to start? Fear not! Recollection Wisconsin and WiLS are excited to offer… Read More…
Curating Community Digital Collections, our two-year IMLS-funded digital preservation initiative, officially launched on December 1. Recollection Wisconsin is thrilled to welcome Vicki Tobias as the Program Coordinator for this new project. In this role, Vicki will work with staff at small and mid-sized libraries and cultural heritage organizations, graduate students in the library schools at… Read More…
Recovering Analog and Digital Data (RADD), in the Laboratory Library at the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) at UW-Madison, is a collection of equipment for digitizing audio cassettes, VHS tapes, floppy disks and other outmoded media formats. The oral histories, musical performances, and other unique information stored on these types of materials are… Read More…
