Curious to know how Recollection Wisconsin content partners accomplish their digitization work? We asked a few of our content partners to reflect on and share their experiences creating digital collections from local history resources. These case studies include digitization best practices, lessons learned and impact stories from local history organizations in Wisconsin. Railroad and Logging… Read More…
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CCDC…That’s All Folks!
Thank you for your support of Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC). This two-year, IMLS-funded program completed in December 2019. In the coming months, we will make available our program curriculum and our process for creating CCDC. Congratulations and thank you to all the students, mentors and host sites who participated in CCDC in 2018 and… Read More…
Sauk City Public Library, Sauk City Property Histories and Pionier Presse Translations Case Study
Myrtle Cushing was a passionate local historian who collected material and pictures documenting the history of Sauk City, Wisconsin. In 1992, her work was translated into the book, Lives Lived Here by Michael Goc. As part of Sauk City Public Library’s (now the George Culver Community Library) digitization project, her book and very detailed notes… Read More…
The Toolkit: Can We Digitize and Put These Images Online? Should We?
The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear, like this one: Our library has a collection of photographs that shows the people, places, and events of our town. The earliest photographs are probably from the early 1900s and the most recent date to the 1970s…. Read More…
2019 Year in Review
In 2019, Recollection Wisconsin supported our Content Partners by improving the discoverability of and access to their collections, researching and launching projects to build capacity and knowledge of digital collection creation and stewardship, rescuing and reformatting valuable cultural history assets, and more! Read all about it in the Recollection Wisconsin 2019 Year in Review…. Read More…
The Toolkit: Three Resolutions for Better File Management in 2020
Recollection Wisconsin’s Digital Projects Toolkit brings together guidelines, tools and resources for creating, managing and sharing digital collections. In this monthly series, we’ll address some common questions and concerns we often hear from libraries, archives and museums tackling digital work. Have a question you’d like answered? Contact us! To kick things off, we’ll take a… Read More…
Update: Planning (and Building!) a Statewide Digital Readiness Community of Practice
That’s a wrap on our planning project! Over the past six months, we collaborated closely with local history practitioners across Wisconsin to better understand their needs related to digital collections creation, management and preservation. 127 individuals representing over 90 different Wisconsin local history and historic preservation organizations responded to our survey in August 2019. Survey… Read More…
A Day to Remember
Veterans Day means a lot to me. It’s a day I take to reflect on my past and remember my experiences in the Army. When I look back, the main things I recall are the people I served with, the connections we made, and our experiences together. The past loses its meaning when we forget… Read More…
Thank You to Recollection Wisconsin Partners
To honor the contributions to Recollection Wisconsin from our partners across the state, enjoy this slideshow with collection highlights from each of the 244 organizations – from Albany to Woodville – that make Recollection Wisconsin possible…. Read More…
Digital Preservation Advocacy
Earlier this month, Emily Pfotenhauer and Vicki Tobias delivered a WiLSWorldShorts webinar focused on Digital Preservation Advocacy. Webinar slides, recording and a list of supporting resources are all available on the WiLS website. This hour-long webinar introduced participants to key concepts related in digital preservation work for libraries, archives and cultural heritage institutions. Topics included… Read More…
