The Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) held their annual international conference in October in Temecula, California, at the Pechanga Resort and Casino, and WiLS sent me, Kelsie Flack, the Curating Indigenous Digital Collections Fellow working with the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. WiLS also sent Sarah Lundquist, the first-year fellow who worked with the Ho-Chunk… READ MORE
Category: Digital Projects
POWRR Institute with WiLS and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community
by Kelsie Flack, Curating Indigenous Digital Collections Fellow, WiLS WiLS and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community hosted a POWRR Professional Development Institute in Bowler this past November. The POWRR model focuses on “Preserving (Digital) Objects with Restricted Resources,” and the workshop discussed how cultural heritage professionals can ethically and safely preserve digital objects for access and use,… READ MORE
WiLS Partners with Stockbridge-Munsee Community
WiLS has embarked on the second year of our grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to advance the creation and preservation of digital collections in Wisconsin’s tribal archives, libraries, and museums. The three-year initiative, Curating Indigenous Digital Collections, funds a series of post-graduate fellowships to support knowledge preservation and language revitalization in… READ MORE
APP Community Memory Cohort 2 Visits Washington, D.C.
Over the past three years, WiLS has served as a mentor organization for two cohorts of small and rural libraries undertaking community memory projects, thanks to the Accelerating Promising Practices funding opportunity from IMLS. (For more information on the program, check out our previous blog posts here and here.) The second cohort began their work… READ MORE
An Update from Curating Indigenous Digital Collections
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… READ MORE