We’re excited to work with Team Menomonee Falls Library as part of the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative! Founded in 1906, the Menomonee Falls Public Library encourages lifelong learning by providing materials, services, and programs to enrich our community’s educational, informational, and recreational needs. It also seeks to stimulate children’s appreciation for reading and interest in learning…. Read More…
Digitization
Meet Team Middleton Area Historical Society
We are thrilled to be working with the Middleton Area Historical Society (MAHS) as part of the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative! The Middleton Area Historical Society was established in 1972 with a mission to preserve and publicize the history of the Middleton, Wisconsin area. It is two museums – the Rowley House Museum and the… Read More…
Meet Team Washington Island Museums
We are thrilled to be working with the Washington Island museums this spring as part of the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative! Their project includes photographing and digitizing materials held by the Jacobsens Museum, part of the Town of Washington Museums group. This includes boat models (schooners) built by Jens Jacobsen (1867-1952) in the late 1800s,… Read More…
Meet Team Milwaukee Art Museum
We are thrilled to be working with the Milwaukee Art Museum this spring as part of the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative! Their project focuses on digitizing, creating descriptive information for and providing public access to materials from the Brooks Stevens Archive, one of several special Museum Collection archives acquired from the Stevens family in 1997…. Read More…
Spring Cohort Begins Digitization Work
Our Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative spring cohort commenced last week with a 3-hour virtual training event. Participants learned more about Recollection Wisconsin, the Digital Public Library of America and WiLS. Recollection Wisconsin staff presented key digitization best practices and shared knowledge, tools and resources to support students’ scanning, metadata creation, folder- and file-naming and organization schemes, digital preservation, and creating project… Read More…
Four Historic Wisconsin Businesses
by Jacqueline Steel, UW-Madison iSchool In fall 2024, I worked collaboratively with the Eagle River Historical Society and the Nicolet Federated Library System staff to digitize and describe a collection of materials that document historical resorts and supper clubs primarily in northern Wisconsin. Working with ERHS director Vito Bortolotti and NFLS director Tracy Vreeke, I… Read More…
Digital Curation With the Hoocąk Waaziija Haci Language Division (Ho-Chunk Nation)
by Kierstin Wagner, UW-Milwaukee SOIS This semester, I have had the pleasure of working with the Hoocąk Waaziija Haci Language Division (Ho-Chunk Nation) to organize, preserve, and provide access to decades of invaluable language-learning materials. My work with the language collections spanned three phases. The first phase involved inventorying and organizing the materials. Since 2017,… Read More…
Digitizing a Community Newspaper: Tips, Tricks, and How to Make Meaning Out of Metadata
by Julia Lalor, UW-Madison iSchool (’24) When I first set out to digitize copies of the community newspaper the Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter, I was somewhat skeptical of the impact that this project would have. I took the Edgerton Public Library at its word that digital copies of this newspaper would benefit researchers, but from the… Read More…
Meet Our Spring 2025 Cohort!
We are excited to announce our next Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative cohort starting in January 2025. This initiative brings together Wisconsin content partners and information school graduate students to create new digital collections. Content partners will choose collections to digitize, and student staff will handle the digitization and metadata work as part of a paid… Read More…
Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative
We’re thrilled to announce a new initiative supporting Wisconsin local history organizations in their digitization work! The aptly-named Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative is a collaborative endeavor which brings together Wisconsin organizations with local history collections (public libraries, museums, archives, and local history or community organizations) and Wisconsin information school graduate students to digitize and publicly… Read More…
