We’ve been on the road this fall, promoting Recollection Wisconsin and our projects that champion digital stewardship of local history resources –- Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC) and Listening to War: Digitizing Wisconsin’s Wartime Oral Histories. Here’s a recap of our adventures! We rolled into La Crosse, Wisconsin on October 24th for the 2018 Wisconsin… Read More…
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CCDC 2019: Apply to Participate!
We’re now accepting applications from Wisconsin libraries, archives, museums and historical societies to participate in Year Two of our IMLS-funded Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC) program. In 2019, CCDC will support a cohort of ten teams. Each team will include a graduate student from the iSchool at UW-Madison or the School of Information Studies at… Read More…
Building the Community: NEDCC Symposium Keynote
Keynote presentation by Emily Pfotenhauer, WiLS, for a digital preservation symposium coordinated by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), Boston, November 9, 2018…. Read More…
CCDC Lightning Talk: Creating Community Through Digital Futures
Curating Community Digital Collections lightning talk by Vicki Tobias, WiLS, for Creating Community Through Digital Futures, a symposium hosted by the Art Institute of Chicago, November 1, 2018…. Read More…
CCDC: Collaborating to Build Digital Capacity
In this panel, participating students and site supervisors shared their experiences and lessons learned from the Summer 2018 IMLS-funded Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC) cohort. Presented for the Wisconsin Library Association annual meeting in La Crosse, October 25, 2018…. Read More…
CCDC 2018: That’s a Wrap!
It’s cliché, but true, I can’t believe how quickly this summer flew by! Our first Curating Community Digital Collections cohort just wrapped up their summer work. Well done, folks, well done. (Cue Pomp and Circumstance.) Let’s crunch a few CCDC numbers . . . 6 host sites and 8 host site supervisors 6 graduate students… Read More…
WiLS interview: Vicki Tobias, Program Coordinator, Curating Community Digital Collections
Vicki Tobias, our coordinator for the IMLS-funded CCDC program, recently gave an interview to WiLS (Wisconsin Library Services), the 501(c)(3) member organization that manages the Recollection Wisconsin consortium. Read about her work with CCDC and with the iSchool at UW-Madison, her favorite podcasts, her forays into playing bass guitar, and her chihuahuas Peppi and Diego!… Read More…
CCDC Host Reflections: La Crosse Public Library Archives
Hello from La Crosse! I’m Scott Brouwer, Archivist at the La Crosse Public Library Archives. In my position, I enjoy the many things in which I am involved, including collection processing, website management, digital content management, research assistance, media consulting, local history reference, photo scanning, metadata creation, and extensive local history programming. I would encourage… Read More…
CCDC Host Reflections: Barron County Historical Society
Hello from the Barron County Historical Society! I’m Tamera Schutz, the Executive Director. Three years ago, we started digitizing our photos, with vague thoughts of sharing them online and providing another way to ensure their preservation. The digitization of these photographs raised a lot of questions, as we did not know where to go from… Read More…
Supporting Digital Projects in Southcentral Wisconsin
This post is contributed by Tamara Ramski, Digitization Specialist, South Central Library System (SCLS). The South Central Library System (SCLS) provides services to public libraries in seven counties in south-central Wisconsin. In 2017, SCLS began offering member libraries assistance with local history digitization projects through a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant funded by… Read More…
