Name: Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative
Start: 2025-05-07T11:00:00-0500
End: 2025-05-07T11:45:00-0500

The Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#umdcc25) and the Minnesota Digital Library Annual Meeting (#mndiglib25) will be held jointly on May 6–7, 2025. It will be an in-person event held in Saint Paul, Minnesota at the Union Depot. There is also a streaming option for those unable to join in person.

View the conference webpage
Conference venue map (See 2nd floor event center information)

Wednesday May 7, 2025 11:00am - 11:45am CDT

Veterans Gallery

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.

Speakers

Kierstin Wagner

UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Kierstin Wagner serves as the interim archivist for the University of Wisconsin-Stout and is the campus representative for the archives division of the Council of Universities of Wisconsin Libraries (CUWL). She is committed to expanding the reach of archives by removing barriers to... Read More →

Vicki Tobias

Program Coordinator, Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative, Recollection Wisconsin / WiLS

Vicki is the coordinator for Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative, a new program that brings together Wisconsin content partners and information school graduate students to create new digital collections shared in Recollection Wisconsin. In addition to her role coordinating... Read More →