2025 Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference and Minnesota Digital Library

Local history organizations often lack resources to start or continue digitization work in a sustainable manner. Students need well-organized (and paid!) opportunities to put theory into practice. Our initiative brings together Wisconsin local history organizations and information school graduate students to create new digital collections. In our session, program coordinators and participants will discuss how and why we designed this initiative, share a few success stories and lessons learned along the way, and offer ideas for structuring a similar digitization initiative within your community or organization.