Over the past few weeks, it’s been fascinating to watch the growth of community archiving efforts to document COVID-19 and its impact on our communities. There are a multiple local, regional and national efforts underway with new projects popping up every few days. Here are a few Wisconsin-based “rapid response collecting” activities: The Wisconsin Historical… Read More…
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Professional Development Opportunities While Working From Home
Looking for a little direction as you work from home? Check out the Recollection Wisconsin Digital Projects Toolkit and other virtual training opportunities to enhance your digital collections work. Reposted from DPI’s Wisconsin Libraries for Everyone blog. The Recollection Wisconsin Digital Projects Toolkit is a free online course covering the basics of digitization projects. There are… Read More…
A Message from Recollection Wisconsin
From all of us, we hope you are safe and well. As we all face the impacts of COVID-19, we will continue to make available historical resources that inspire, delight, and enlighten. Many of our content partners – libraries, museums, historical societies, and other cultural institutions – have had to close their doors to support… Read More…
The Toolkit: Digitizing Indigenous Materials
The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear, like this one: Our institution has a collection of materials that are related to Indigenous communities of Wisconsin. We are interested in digitizing these materials. How should we go about this? As mentioned in the February… Read More…
Stoughton Public Library, Kvamme Local History Collection Case Study
The Kvamme Local History Collection at the Stoughton Public Library was established in 1984 by Lois Kvamme as a memorial to her husband, Torstein O. Kvamme, a former principal, band and history teacher at the local high school. Through gifts and donations, the collection has grown over the years. The digital collection includes Stoughton city… Read More…
Content Partner Case Studies
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…
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…
