The Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative (RWDI) connects libraries, archives, and cultural organizations across the state with graduate student interns to digitize local history collections. Through these partnerships, RWDI helps ensure that photographs, yearbooks, published histories, and archival materials documenting Wisconsin communities are preserved and shared online for anyone to explore. We’re thrilled to welcome our summer 2026… Read More…
Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative
Stranger in a Familiar Land
by Magnolia Sandell In the Spring of 2026 I had the opportunity to intern at the Whitewater Public Library (WPL) through the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative, a wonderful way to round out my 1st year as a Library and Information Science graduate student at UW-Madison. Although I have a professional focus on academic libraries I’ve… Read More…
Still the Same, After All These Years: Digitizing the Oconto Yearbooks
By Bri Quintero Bungert, UW-Madison iSchool (2026) This past semester, I had the wonderful opportunity of working with the Farnsworth Public Library in Oconto, Wisconsin, as a part of the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative. My project focused on digitizing the library’s yearbook collection, the years ranging from 1910 to 1949. The collection, which has been… Read More…
Summer 2026 Digitization Initiative Cohort
The Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative (RWDI) connects libraries, archives, and cultural organizations across the state with graduate student interns to digitize local history collections. Through these partnerships, RWDI helps ensure that photographs, yearbooks, published histories, and archival materials documenting Wisconsin communities are preserved and shared online for anyone to explore. We’re thrilled to welcome our summer 2026… Read More…
Immersion Workshop Highlights
Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative On January 15–16, we kicked off the Spring 2026 Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative with our Immersion Workshop, two days designed to get students and host site supervisors ready to hit the ground running. Day one we convened at the Fitchburg Public Library, with lots of coffee, conversation, and hands-on work. After… Read More…
Spring 2026 Digitization Initiative Cohort
The Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative (RWDI) connects libraries, archives, and cultural organizations across the state with graduate student interns to digitize local history collections. Through these partnerships, RWDI helps ensure that photographs, yearbooks, published histories, and archival materials documenting Wisconsin communities are preserved and shared online for anyone to explore. We’re thrilled to welcome our… Read More…
Meet our Spring 2026 Cohort!
We are excited to announce our next Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative cohort starting in January 2026. This initiative brings together Wisconsin content partners and information school graduate students to create new digital collections. Content partners will select collections to digitize, and student staff will handle digitization and metadata work as part of a paid practicum or independent… Read More…
Seeking new content partners for spring and summer 2026 program
Calling for all Wisconsin libraries, museums and local history organizations to participate in the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative! Hoping to digitize but need support scanning and creating metadata? We’re here to help! Recollection Wisconsin seeks new content partners/host sites to digitize local history collections starting in spring 2026. Trained graduate students will complete the work and will receive… Read More…
Find us at WLA!
Interested in learning more about the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative? We’ll be at the 2025 WLA Annual Conference in Middleton, Wisconsin, October 28-31. This year’s theme, “Be the Change,” celebrates innovation and collaboration in libraries. That’s our program in a nutshell! Our program pairs graduate students with libraries, museums and local history organizations to digitize… Read More…
Developing and Managing Archives and Digital Library Internships
Thanks to the Sunshine State Digital Network and Keila Zayas-Ruiz for including our program in their recent webinar, Developing and Managing Archives and Digital Library Internships! Program coordinator, Vicki Tobias, shared her experience developing and coordinating graduate student internships for the Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative alongside representatives from Florida State University Libraries, Florida International University… Read More…
