by Ellen Brooks, Community Memory & Digital Archives Consultant 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… READ MORE
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… READ MORE
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. The grant was slated to end in September 2019, however, thanks to IMLS the project has been… READ MORE
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. The IMLS-funded CCDC program placed UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee information graduate students in small or under-resourced cultural heritage institutions across Wisconsin to… READ MORE
by Andrea Cudworth, Midwest Mukurtu Hub Project Assistant Enjoy this guest feature from Andrea Cudworth on her path to becoming Midwest Mukurtu Hub Project Assistant! In 2017 I had the opportunity to take a Service Learning class on Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums (TLAM) in the Information School at UW-Madison. This was a bit of a… READ MORE