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New in Recollection Wisconsin for Fall 2024

This quarter, we welcomed two new content partners into the Recollection Wisconsin community!  The Madison Trust for Historic Preservation Archives collection includes newsletters from the 70s through 2011 as well as Parade of Homes Plan Books from 1953 through 1990. The Milwaukee County Historical Society’s digital collection documents the history of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County from the 1890s… Read More…

Meet Team Eagle River Historical Society!

We are thrilled to be working with the Eagle River Historical Society and the Nicolet Federated Library System as part of the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative. This project focuses on digitizing and sharing materials that document historic resorts and supper clubs in the Eagle River, Wisconsin area including post cards, brochures, menus and matchbooks. This… Read More…

A Mission and a Vision for Recollection Wisconsin

Recollection Wisconsin has been connecting cultural heritage institutions and their digital materials statewide since 2013, first as Wisconsin Heritage Online and then as Recollection Wisconsin. Although the consortium was founded on and has operated with the ideals of collaboration, service, and access, we’ve not had formal mission and vision statements in that time. One of… Read More…

Meet Team Hoocąk Waaziija Haci (Ho-Chunk) Language Division!

We are thrilled to be working with the Hoocąk Waaziija Haci (Ho-Chunk) Language Division in Tomah, Wisconsin as part of the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative. Their project includes organizing, digitizing, creating descriptive information and preserving their language learning materials, and hosting some materials in Mukurtu, (MOOK-oo-too), a grassroots project aiming to empower Indigenous communities to… Read More…

Enhancing Digital Collections Stewardship Learning Group

Recollection Wisconsin invites you to join a FREE four-month learning group to learn the fundamentals of digital project planning, creating, and maintaining digital collections. In collaboration with WebJunction, participants will complete eight modules on digital collections stewardship and come together virtually every other week for four months to discuss concepts and projects. FREE!This program is… Read More…

Meet Team Edgerton Public Library

We’re thrilled to be working with the Edgerton Public Library as part of the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative. Their project involves digitizing some of the oldest print issues of the Edgerton Reporter and Edgerton Tobacco Reporter dating back to 1885. In addition to scanning and creating metadata for these issues, the project team will work… Read More…

Digitization Initiative Begins!

On September 4th, we kicked off the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative with a 3-hour virtual training session with students, host site supervisors and WiLS and Recollection Wisconsin staff. Over the course of the afternoon, participants learned more about Recollection Wisconsin, the Digital Public Library of America and WiLS. Recollection Wisconsin staff presented key digitization best… Read More…

Meet the Fall Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative Cohort

Meet our fall cohort! We are excited to announce the first Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative cohort starting in September 2024. 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… Read More…

New in Recollection Wisconsin, Spring 2024

This quarter, we welcomed Monticello Public Library as Recollection Wisconsin’s newest content partner with their burgeoning collection of historical photos and documents. We also added new materials to Mount Mary University’s Digital Fashion Archives, including a retrospective on the development of the University’s Fashion program itself, which users can explore through images and documents…. 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…

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