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Update on DPLA staffing changes

The recent news of a significant downsizing of staff at the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has led to some questions about the future of this national digital library. DPLA is working to secure additional funding and build in more sustainability. They remain committed to continuing their core work to aggregate digital cultural heritage… Read More…

Curating Community Digital Collections – Points of Pride 2018

Our sincere thanks to everyone who supported and/or participated in Curating Community Digital Collections in 2018. We are grateful for your time and continued support of digital stewardship work throughout Wisconsin (and beyond!). Thank you CCDC students Jodi Kiffmeyer, Jessica Behrman, Sarah Lange, Kristina Warner, Cameron Fontaine and Steve Moray; mentors Stacey Erdman, Jesse Henderson,… Read More…

CCDC 2018 Resources: Student-created Policies, Workflows and Documentation

Last summer, our CCDC students worked with their host sites and mentors to develop digital preservation policies, workflows, and other documentation. Selected examples of these documents are now available on the CCDC website for other cultural heritage organizations to review and adapt for their own digital stewardship work. CCDC 2018 Resources/Student-created policies, workflows and other documents: https://recollectionwisconsin.org/digipres/2018resources… Read More…

Recollection Wisconsin Staff Share Projects Around the State (and Beyond!)

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…

CCDC 2019: Apply to Participate!

Curating Community Digital Collections

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…

Recollection Wisconsin at Fall Conferences

Are you headed to the Wisconsin Library Association conference in La Crosse or the Local History-Historic Preservation conference in Elkhart Lake later this month? Say hi to the Recollection Wisconsin team! CCDC Project Coordinator Vicki Tobias and Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager Emily Pfotenhauer will be in the WLA Exhibit Hall, Booth 13, Wednesday and Thursday… Read More…

Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference 2018

Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference

Registration is now open for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#UMDCC18) at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota November 8-9. Join your digital collections colleagues for 1.5 days of networking, sharing of best practices, and hands-on learning. View conference schedule Register The Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference features: Keynote speaker Abigail Potter (Digital… Read More…

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