The Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS), Recollection Wisconsin, and Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS) are collaborating on a grant-funded project, Planning a Digital Readiness Community of Practice, to assess local historical societies’ “digital readiness.” They are working together to learn more about Wisconsin local history affiliates’ capacity to digitize and share their historic collections online.
Throughout September, we will be hosting several Community Conversations at regional local history meetings and gatherings of other history consortia. The information gathered from these community conversations will be used to plan future training opportunities, collaborative projects and other activities to support digital collection development in Wisconsin’s historical societies and historic preservation groups.
Please join us at one of these gatherings where we’ll explore in greater depth, issues related to digital projects and digitization work. We’d love to hear from you! See list of meetings below.
Visit Planning a Digital Readiness Community of Practice or contact vicki@wils.org for more information about this project. This work is supported by an Archives Collaboratives Planning Grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS
Thursday, September 12, 8:30 AM-2:00 PM
Northwoods Regional Meeting
Hosted by the Florence County Historical Society
Florence Utility Commission Conference Room
501 Spring Avenue, Florence, WI 54121
*Registration required.
Friday, September 13, 8:30 AM-3:00 PM
West Central Regional Meeting
Hosted by the Stanley Area Historical Society Museum
228 Helgerson Street, Stanley, WI 54768
*Registration required.
Tuesday, September 17, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Hosted by the Heritage Alliance of Door County
Baileys Harbor Village Hall
2392 County F, Baileys Harbor, WI 54202
Friday, September 20, 8:30 AM-2:00 PM
Southeast Regional Meeting
Hosted by the Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum
101 West Main Street, Waukesha, WI 53186
*Registration required.
Wednesday, September 25, 10:00 AM-11:30 AM
Hosted by the Waupaca County Historical Network
Holly History and Genealogy Center
321 S Main Street, Waupaca, Wisconsin 54981
Thursday, September 26, 9:00 AM-2:00 PM
Hosted by the North Wood County Historical Society
North Wood County Historical Society in Marshfield
Second Street Community Center
211 East Second Street, Drendel Room
Marshfield, Wisconsin 54449
