PreserveWI, Wisconsin’s statewide digital preservation program, is moving into its next chapter. Digital preservation – the long-term, monitored storage of digital cultural heritage materials – is an essential but often underfunded part of any digitization program, and PreserveWI exists to make it achievable through shared statewide infrastructure. This collaborative initiative between Recollection Wisconsin and the… Read More…
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Join the Recollection Wisconsin Steering Committee!
The Recollection Wisconsin Steering Committee is seeking nominations to fill four vacant seats. The Committee helps shape the priorities and future directions of the Recollection Wisconsin statewide digital consortium. The Committee is made up of librarians, archivists, curators, educators, digital practitioners, and digital collection users representing a broad range of cultural heritage and memory-keeping organizations… Read More…
Summer 2026 Digitization Initiative Cohort
The Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative (RWDI) connects libraries, archives, and cultural organizations across the state with graduate student interns to digitize local history collections. Through these partnerships, RWDI helps ensure that photographs, yearbooks, published histories, and archival materials documenting Wisconsin communities are preserved and shared online for anyone to explore. We’re thrilled to welcome our summer 2026… Read More…
New in Recollection Wisconsin, Winter 2026
We are pleased to welcome Montello Public Library to Recollection Wisconsin, via Winnefox Library System. You can explore Montello High School’s excellently named Granite Hilltopper yearbooks from 1940 to 2018 in their digital collection…. Read More…
Immersion Workshop Highlights
Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative On January 15–16, we kicked off the Spring 2026 Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative with our Immersion Workshop, two days designed to get students and host site supervisors ready to hit the ground running. Day one we convened at the Fitchburg Public Library, with lots of coffee, conversation, and hands-on work. After… Read More…
Spring 2026 Digitization Initiative Cohort
The Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative (RWDI) connects libraries, archives, and cultural organizations across the state with graduate student interns to digitize local history collections. Through these partnerships, RWDI helps ensure that photographs, yearbooks, published histories, and archival materials documenting Wisconsin communities are preserved and shared online for anyone to explore. We’re thrilled to welcome our… Read More…
Meet our Spring 2026 Cohort!
We are excited to announce our next Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative cohort starting in January 2026. This initiative brings together Wisconsin content partners and information school graduate students to create new digital collections. Content partners will select collections to digitize, and student staff will handle digitization and metadata work as part of a paid practicum or independent… Read More…
New in Recollection Wisconsin for Fall 2025
We are excited to welcome three new content partners to Recollection Wisconsin this quarter! Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design‘s Guido Brink collection contains ephemera concerning the life and artwork of Midwest artist and educator Guido Peter Brink (1913-2002) in addition to the art collection endowed to the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design from… Read More…
Seeking new content partners for spring and summer 2026 program
Calling for all Wisconsin libraries, museums and local history organizations to participate in the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative! Hoping to digitize but need support scanning and creating metadata? We’re here to help! Recollection Wisconsin seeks new content partners/host sites to digitize local history collections starting in spring 2026. Trained graduate students will complete the work and will receive… Read More…
Find us at WLA!
Interested in learning more about the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative? We’ll be at the 2025 WLA Annual Conference in Middleton, Wisconsin, October 28-31. This year’s theme, “Be the Change,” celebrates innovation and collaboration in libraries. That’s our program in a nutshell! Our program pairs graduate students with libraries, museums and local history organizations to digitize… Read More…
