Racine Public Library

Promoting Community Connections in Racine

by McKenzie Weaver, graduate student UW-Milwaukee SOIS Over the summer, I’ve been working with the Racine Public Library’s local history librarian, Rebecca Leannah, to digitize their yearbook collection.  Yearbooks from the local high schools, Racine High School, Washington Park High School, and William Horlick High School, are some of the most requested items from the… Read More…

Meet Team Racine Public Library!

The Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative summer cohort started their project work last month. This summer, we’re working with four new organziations and graduate students to digitize some very unique Wisconsin local history collections. We’re excited to work with Racine Public Library to digitize and provide online public access to materials from their Racine local history collection, specifically… Read More…

Meet our Summer 2025 Cohort

We are excited to announce our next Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative cohort starting in late May 2025. 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 part of a paid practicum… Read More…