Recollection Wisconsin is built on a simple idea: Wisconsin’s history comes from and belongs to everyone. We are excited to share the ways that we’ve worked hard to bring that simple idea to life in the last year and a half.
And what a busy year and a half it’s been! Our graduate student internship program continues to grow, with four new projects already set to begin this fall. Thanks to a partnership with UW-Madison’s iSchool Capstone Course, we now have a foundational design ready to guide improvements to our website’s usability and accessibility for all kinds of users. Through the Culture Keepers Collective, we brought digitization training to the 2026 Culture Keepers Gathering and began piloting Traditional Knowledge Notices in partnership with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and Local Contexts, while a statewide Newspaper Think Tank brought together library systems, historical organizations, and academic partners to begin envisioning a centralized home for Wisconsin’s digitized newspapers.
None of this is possible without the partners who trust us with their collections, the state and grant funding that sustain our work, and the advocates who make us better. That includes you!
We’re proud of what we have already built, and we look forward to what could come next. Read all about the year that was and a look ahead at the next one in the Recollection Wisconsin 2025-2026 Year in Review!
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