Greetings from the Rock County Historical Society in Janesville, WI! My name is Kristin Arnold, and I am the archives manager at RCHS, where I work alongside dedicated volunteers and innovative staff members. One of the most exciting projects happening at RCHS is the Story Squad program, led by our insightful and gracious History Teller,… Read More…
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CCDC Host Reflections: Outagamie Waupaca Library System
Hello! I’m Amanda Lee, the OWLSnet Manager with the Outagamie Waupaca Library System. OWLSnet is a library consortium consisting of 29 libraries (with 49 service locations) in the Outagamie Waupaca Library System and the Nicolet Federated Library System. One of my main goals as the OWLSnet Manager is to provide services for this consortium, including… Read More…
NEH-Funded Project “Listening To War” Moves Forward
This spring, we shared the news of a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support our project Listening To War: Digitizing Wisconsin’s Wartime Histories. This initiative builds on the NEH-funded planning work we undertook in 2016-2017 to identify veterans’ oral history interviews in small and mid-sized libraries and historical societies… Read More…
CCDC Host Reflections: Manitowoc County Historical Society
Hello from the Manitowoc County Historical Society! My name is Amy Meyer and I am the Executive Director of the museum. As an institution whose collection is managed and organized by volunteers, the knowledge gained through participating in the CCDC program has been remarkable. The work with the CCDC has already transformed the way our… Read More…
CCDC: Vicki on the Road, Part 2
Earlier this month, I wrapped up my “Tour de Year One CCDC Host Sites” with visits to Rock County Historical Society in Janesville, Outagamie Waupaca Library System in Appleton and College of Menominee Nation in Keshena. While all of our teams have similar broad goals for their summer projects — develop digital preservation workflows, best… Read More…
CCDC Host Reflections: College of Menominee Nation
This is Bethany Huse with the College of Menominee Nation. I am one of the Librarians here at the College, and one of my duties is that I spend half of my days in the Special Collections. Over this summer, we’ve had the privilege to participate in the CCDC project and have Steve Moray, a… Read More…
WiLSWorld 2018: Innovations in Digital Projects
This session for WiLSWorld 2018, July 24 in Madison, highlighted new tools and innovative approaches Wisconsin libraries are using to create, share and preserve digital collections. Presenters: Vicki Tobias, Program Coordinator, Curating Community Digital Collections, WiLS Ann Hanlon, Head, Digital Collections and Initiatives and DH Lab, UW-Milwaukee Randi Ramsden, Program Coordinator, National Digital Newspaper Program,… Read More…
CCDC: Vicki on the Road, Part 1
This month, I am thrilled to be visiting each of our Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC) host sites for an extended check-in with each team. It’s been almost two months since our immersion workshop in Madison where we introduced CCDC participants to basic digital preservation concepts and best practices, tools and workflows for preservation tasks,… Read More…
CCDC Student Reflections: Rock County Historical Society
I’m Sarah Lange, and I’ll begin my second year at UW-Madison’s iSchool in the fall. This summer I’m working at Rock County Historical Society in Janesville, Wisconsin. I’m developing a digital preservation policy as well as oral history best practices and a workflow for managing the society’s Story Squad collection, which includes story cards, short… Read More…
CCDC Student Reflections: La Crosse Public Library Archives
Hi! I’m Jessica Behrman, and I am about to enter my second year at the Information School at UW-Madison. My practicum this summer is with the La Crosse Public Library Archives, where I’m working on creating workflows for digital photograph ingestion, migrating existing content into new digital collections, and implementing quality control measures going forward…. Read More…
