Thank you for your interest in Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC). This two-year, IMLS-funded program completed in December 2019.
Interested in designing and implementing a statewide, cohort-based digital preservation training program (or something similar)? Our digital preservation curriculum and program materials are now publicly available: Curating Community Digital Collections: A Starter Package.
Congratulations and thank you to all the students, mentors, and host site supervisors who participated in CCDC in 2018 and 2019. We look forward to following your project progress and work related to digital preservation. Shout out to AVP Senior Consultant Amy Rudersdorf for helping to develop and deliver our workshop curriculum. Finally, many thanks to the UW-Milwaukee SOIS and UW-Madison iSchool staff for their enthusiastic support of our program. Well done, all, well done!
For more information about planning and implementing a digitization project, including digital preservation best practices, visit our Digital Projects Toolkit.
If you have questions about Curating Community Digital Collections, please contact us.
Project summary: From 2017-2019, WiLS (Wisconsin Library Services) and Recollection Wisconsin partnered with the iSchool at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies to provide library school students with practical experience in digital stewardship and increase the capacity of small libraries and cultural heritage organizations to curate their digital collections. Over two years, 16 students and 14 host institutions received training and mentoring in digital stewardship and worked together to manage, preserve and provide access to digital content.
This initiative was supported by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. For more information, read the final grant proposal submitted to IMLS.
This project was made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, #RE-85-17-0127-17. The views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily represent those of IMLS.
