Recollection Wisconsin has enhanced and expanded its Digital Readiness Toolkit to incorporate guidance and best practices on digitizing and sharing audiovisual content. These enhancements, a result of valuable contributions from the Community Archiving Workshop, include a comprehensive digital readiness self-assessment tool for your organization, a framework for prioritizing A/V materials for digitization, and in-depth guidance… Read More…
Digital Readiness
Preserving At-Risk Audiocassettes: A Case Study of the History Museum at the Castle in Appleton, Wisconsin
This post was contributed by Bronwen Maseman, a Madison-based librarian, educator, consultant, and researcher. This case study is part of the Community Archiving Workshop Regional Training of Trainers program, funded by an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant (RE-85-18-0039-18) in partnership with the Association of Moving Image… Read More…
Preserving At-Risk Acetate Reel to Reel Audio Recordings: A Case Study of the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire Special Collections and Archives
This post was contributed by Bronwen Maseman, a Madison-based librarian, educator, consultant, and researcher. This case study is part of the Community Archiving Workshop Regional Training of Trainers program, funded by an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant (RE-85-18-0039-18) in partnership with the Association of Moving Image… Read More…
Preserving At-Risk 16mm Acetate Films: A Case Study of the Milwaukee Public Museum
This post was contributed by Bronwen Maseman, a Madison-based librarian, educator, consultant, and researcher. This case study is part of the Community Archiving Workshop Regional Training of Trainers program, funded by an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant (RE-85-18-0039-18) in partnership with the Association of Moving Image… Read More…
The Toolkit: File Formats
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…
The Toolkit: Building Community Engagement
The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear, like this one: How do I build community participation in my digital project? Here are some ideas for building engagement with community members around your digital initiatives and organization’s work. Who? Think about the community group… Read More…
The Toolkit: Working With Vendors
The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear, like this one: How do I work with a vendor? Here are some resources to help you begin to formulate the questions you need to ask a vendor and the information that you need to be… Read More…
The Toolkit: Transcription Tips
The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear, like this one: How do I transcribe recordings? Here are some tips and resources for transcribing (and/or indexing) oral histories and other audio, video and film recordings, compiled from field experts. What is transcription? This section… Read More…
Digital Readiness Fairs: That’s a Wrap!
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…
Wisconsin Library Association: The Past Through Tomorrow – Empowering Digital History at the Library
In November 2021, Kristen Whitson (Recollection Wisconsin), Steven Rice (Door County Historical Museum) and Beth Renstrom (Sturgeon Bay Historical Society) presented at the Wisconsin Library Association conference. Session Description:“Recollection Wisconsin resources can prepare your library to respond to the digital heritage needs of your community. Join us to hear about Recollection Wisconsin’s NHPRC-funded Digital Readiness… Read More…
