Wisconsin libraries and local history organizations are building digital collections through community engagement and circulating toolkits. These kits provide equipment, training documentation and support to digitize or create born-digital resources. Local practitioners gain hands-on experience curating digital resources without incurring the expense of building and maintaining a digitization lab. Introducing mobile or circulating toolkits through community programming can inspire new interest in and engagement around local history, prompting memories of people, places, and events, and by documenting contemporary life for current and future scholars.
In this presentation from the November 2020 Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference, panelists shared their experiences developing, implementing, and using mobile kits for scanning photos and documents, recording oral histories, and evaluating film collections. Panel members were: Steven Rice, Door County Library (“Door County Speaks” and oral history kits); Tamara Ramski, South Central Library System (mobile document scanning kits); Amanda Smith, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (Film and Video digitization kits through Community Archiving Workshop Midwest). The panel was moderated by Vicki Tobias, WiLS/Recollection Wisconsin.
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