Recollection Wisconsin invites you to join a FREE four-month learning group to learn the fundamentals of digital project planning, creating, and maintaining digital collections. In collaboration with WebJunction, participants will complete eight modules on digital collections stewardship and come together virtually every other week for four months to discuss concepts and projects. FREE!This program is… Read More…
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Meet Team Edgerton Public Library
We’re thrilled to be working with the Edgerton Public Library as part of the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative. Their project involves digitizing some of the oldest print issues of the Edgerton Reporter and Edgerton Tobacco Reporter dating back to 1885. In addition to scanning and creating metadata for these issues, the project team will work… Read More…
Digitization Initiative Begins!
On September 4th, we kicked off the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative with a 3-hour virtual training session with students, host site supervisors and WiLS and Recollection Wisconsin staff. Over the course of the afternoon, participants learned more about Recollection Wisconsin, the Digital Public Library of America and WiLS. Recollection Wisconsin staff presented key digitization best… Read More…
Meet the Fall Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative Cohort
Meet our fall cohort! We are excited to announce the first Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative cohort starting in September 2024. This initiative brings together Wisconsin content partners and information school graduate students to create new digital collections. Content partners will choose collections to digitize, and student staff will handle the digitization and metadata work as… Read More…
New in Recollection Wisconsin, Spring 2024
This quarter, we welcomed Monticello Public Library as Recollection Wisconsin’s newest content partner with their burgeoning collection of historical photos and documents. We also added new materials to Mount Mary University’s Digital Fashion Archives, including a retrospective on the development of the University’s Fashion program itself, which users can explore through images and documents…. Read More…
Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative
We’re thrilled to announce a new initiative supporting Wisconsin local history organizations in their digitization work! The aptly-named Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative is a collaborative endeavor which brings together Wisconsin organizations with local history collections (public libraries, museums, archives, and local history or community organizations) and Wisconsin information school graduate students to digitize and publicly… Read More…
Embarking on a New Chapter in Digital Cultural Heritage in Wisconsin
Since 2016, Recollection Wisconsin has proudly served as a hub for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), connecting users with a wealth of digital cultural heritage items. This collaboration allowed materials from Recollection Wisconsin to be seamlessly integrated into the national DPLA platform, expanding the accessibility of Wisconsin-based content to researchers far and wide…. Read More…
Recollection Wisconsin Goes Fee-Free!
Recollection Wisconsin has made the significant decision to eliminate all onboarding fees, hosting fees, and harvesting fees for all incoming and current content partners. This move is a leap toward increased accessibility and showcases our commitment to fostering a collaborative and inclusive digital collections platform. The decision is also aligned with Recollection Wisconsin’s work in… Read More…
Recollection Wisconsin 2023 Year in Review
This last year was a year of anticipation, hard work, and celebration for Recollection Wisconsin. We wrapped up the last leg of a strenuous, multi-year legislative advocacy process for state funding, briefly celebrated that funding success, and then buckled down for the work ahead. We restarted the gears of the Recollection Wisconsin machinery and, as… Read More…
Recollection Wisconsin Seeks Two New Members for Steering Committee
Nominations are no longer being accepted for the 2024 term. Please look for the next opportunity to participate in the Recollection Wisconsin Steering Committee in November of 2024. The Recollection Wisconsin Steering Committee is seeking nominations to fill two vacant seats. The Committee helps shape the priorities and future directions of the Recollection Wisconsin statewide… Read More…
