Dec 16
Sarah Lundquist
by Sarah Lundquist, Curating Indigenous Digital Collections Fellow
My position as Curating Indigenous Digital Collections (CIDC) Fellow with WiLS began in May 2021. Now approaching the New Year, the fellowship has just recently passed the halfway mark! This is a perfect opportunity to reflect and share on the progress of my work in this role so far. Read more
May 18
In September of 2020, a second cohort of small, rural, and tribal libraries from around the country embarked on community memory projects thanks to the Accelerating Promising Practices funding opportunity from IMLS. Once again, WiLS is serving as a mentor organization. From September 2020 through August 2022, Emily Pfotenhauer and Community Memory & Digital Archives Consultant Ellen Brooks, with the help of Vicki Tobias, are offering support and cohesion for these projects and their managers.
Nov 17
This blog post is contributed by Maxwell Gray, a graduate student at the UW-Madison iSchool. Max is one of four practicum and independent study students WiLS is hosting (virtually) from the iSchool this fall. The students are working with Molli Pauliot and Dr. Stephen Kantrowitz of the Department of History at UW-Madison, using Mukurtu CMS to develop an online gateway to Ho-Chunk research materials. Mukurtu was developed by the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation at Washington State University to empower Indigenous institutions to ethically manage, narrate, and share their digital cultural heritage. WiLS and the iSchool are partners in WSU’s IMLS-funded initiative to provide support and training to Mukurtu users in the Western Great Lakes.
Oct 22
For the last three years, WiLS and the University of Wisconsin-Madison iSchool have partnered with Washington State University on an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded initiative to establish a regional Mukurtu training and outreach hub. Read more
Aug 13
Where has the time gone? It’s August and the Recollection Wisconsin consortium is winding down Curating Community Digital Collections (CCDC) and helping our year two (and final) cohort wrap up their digital preservation projects. Read more
Mar 18
Enjoy this guest feature from Andrea Cudworth on her path to becoming Midwest Mukurtu Hub Project Assistant! Read more
Nov 13
Aug 30
We are so excited to share that we’ve received an award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program and we are even more excited to get to work on the project! In partnership with UW-Madison Information School and UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies, WiLS will provide library school students with practical experience in digital stewardship through summer fieldwork positions.
Read the project abstract and watch for more information about the project in our weekly and monthly newsletters.
Aug 15
We are excited to announce a new partnership with Holder Printworks!
Since opening in 2003, Madison-based Holder Printworks has processed more than 600,000 feet of film and 100,000 slides, scanned thousands of photos, and digitized hundreds of home movies. Now, their services are available to WiLS cooperative purchasing members at a 10% discount!
Read more about Holder Printworks and their products and services here.
Jun 12
For the last year, Digital Archives Assistant Dana Gerber-Margie has been working with WiLS and Recollection Wisconsin on the NEH-funded project, Listening to War: Uncovering Wisconsin’s Wartime Oral Histories to identify, inventory, and plan for the digitization and preservation of hidden, at-risk audiovisual collections across Wisconsin. This year-long planning project is seeking oral history collections that capture personal accounts of Wisconsin veterans and civilians during World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War. Dana has visited several cultural organizations across Wisconsin to assess audiovisual materials and has been working with the project partners to develop a plan to digitize, preserve, and share these oral histories online and pursue additional funding to put the plan into action.
Here, we interview her about her experience. Read more
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