Digital Readiness

Planning for a Digital Readiness Community of Practice – Community Conversations

The Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS), Recollection Wisconsin, and Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS) are collaborating on a grant-funded project, Planning a Digital Readiness Community of Practice, to assess local historical societies’ “digital readiness.” They are working together to learn more about Wisconsin local history affiliates’ capacity to digitize and share their historic collections online. Throughout September, we… Read More…

Help Us Assess and Plan for Digital Readiness in Wisconsin!

Do you work with a local historical society, historic preservation group, or other organization affiliated with the Wisconsin Historical Society? Help us assess and plan for digital readiness in Wisconsin, and develop a plan for a Digital Readiness Community of Practice that will increase your capacity to create, manage and share digitized historical resources. Please… Read More…

National Archives Grant Will Support Strategic Planning

Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero has awarded $3,492,445 for 35 projects in 21 states to improve public access to historical records. WiLS (Wisconsin Library Services), the program manager for the Recollection Wisconsin consortium, was awarded $22,547 from the National Archives grants program to undertake a community-driven strategic planning process intended to build… Read More…

Railroad and Logging Photos, Langlade County Historical Society Case Study

The mission of the Langlade County Historical Society (LCHS) is to preserve, advance, and disseminate knowledge of the history of Langlade County. This is done by the maintenance of a museum, local historical artifacts and archives, and historic sites on the museum campus. In addition, the LCHS prepares programs and publications dealing with local history…. Read More…

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