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Tumblr top three: June 2013

Counting down the most-liked and most-shared posts on our Tumblr blog, Wisco Histo, for the month of June, including two photos in honor of June Dairy Month. 3. Dairy school students at UW-Madison...

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2013: Our year in review

Recollection Wisconsin: 2013 by the numbers 130,956 items available through recollectionwisconsin.org 95,876 followers on our Tumblr blog 49,453 page views on the new recollectionwisconsin.org website...

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Classroom Activities and Lesson Plans

Social Studies and History Activities for grades K-4 Analyzing Photographs Main Street Then and Now Packing a Traveler’s Trunk Thought Bubbles Activities for grades 4-12 Immigration and Settlement...

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2014: Our year in review

In 2014, Recollection Wisconsin focused on building connections both inside and outside the state. We reached out to K-12 educators with new materials for classroom use and surveyed libraries and...

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Metadata

“Metadata, the information we create, store, and share to describe things, allows us to interact with these things to obtain the knowledge we need.” Understanding Metadata, NISO “Metadata is a love...

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Call for applications: Curating Community Digital Collections

Do you have a digital preservation project on your list of new year’s resolutions? Are you starting to acquire digital materials without a plan to adequately deal with them? Perhaps you already have a...

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Curating Community Digital Collections

WiLS (Wisconsin Library Services) and Recollection Wisconsin are partnering with the iSchool at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies to provide library school students with...

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CCDC 2019: How to apply

In 2019, Curating Community Digital Collections will support a cohort of ten teams. Students and Host Sites will be selected through a competitive application process. Each team will include: Student –...

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CCDC 2019: Apply to participate!

We’re now accepting applications from Wisconsin libraries, archives, museums and historical societies to participate in Year Two of our IMLS-funded Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC)...

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Introducing our new website

Wisconsin Heritage Online, the statewide digital collaborative, has a new name—Recollection Wisconsin—and a new look. Our newly redesigned website, recollectionwisconsin.org, provides free access to a...

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Tumblr Top Three: February 2013

Counting down the most-liked and most-shared posts on our Tumblr blog, Wisco Histo, for the month of February. 3. A very close tie A charming snapshot of two friends at the Kenosha County airport just...

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Working with Volunteers

Many of our Recollection Wisconsin Content Partners rely heavily on volunteers to perform a range of activities including digital collections work. Supporting a volunteer-based project or program can...

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Content Partner Resources

Upcoming Harvest Dates Recollection Wisconsin collections are harvested quarterly, in February, June, September, and December. That harvest is ingested the next month DPLA – in March, July, October,...

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Recollection Wisconsin Office Hours

Recollection Wisconsin Office Hours are held every third Thursday of the month from 9:00 – 10:00 Central Time to provide guidance on new projects, feedback on metadata, or any other live help you...

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The Toolkit: Content Statements

The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear, like this one: Should my institution include a content warning...

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Workshopping the Digital Readiness Levels

One of the foundational resources we are creating as part of the Digital Readiness Community of Practice project is a road map for embarking on digital collections development work. Based on the...

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Rolling Out the Digital Readiness Levels

Over the past few months, we have been busy gathering feedback from experts and colleagues and honing the Digital Readiness Levels. The Levels are a structured roadmap for organizations to plan and...

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Door County Library: A Digital Readiness Case Study

About Door County Library Active since 1866, community libraries throughout Door County, Wisconsin combined in 1953 to become branches of the Door County Library (DCL). Currently there are seven...

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Our Digital Readiness Fairs are officially underway!

On June 29, 2021, Appleton Public Library and their local history librarian, Katie Stilp, hosted our first of four summer events. Over 40 fair-goers enjoyed presentations from UW-Madison iSchool...

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The Toolkit: Wrapping Up a Digitization Project

The Toolkit brings together resources for creating, managing, and sharing digital collections to address common concerns we often hear, like this one: My digitization project will end later this year....

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