2025 Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference and Minnesota Digital Library : Full Schedule

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

1:00pm CDT

Preconference Registration

Tuesday May 6, 2025 1:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

Outside Red Cap Room

Tuesday May 6, 2025 1:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Outside Red Cap Room

Break or Lunch

1:00pm CDT

Local Tour: Gallery of Wood Art

Tuesday May 6, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT

Outside Red Cap Room

Meet at 1pm at the conference registration desk (outside the Red Cap Room) on the 2nd floor of the Union Depot. The tour leader will be Zach Miller from Minitex.

The Gallery of Wood Art is about .7 miles from the Union Depot (about a 15-minute walk). Note that the walk is uphill on the way to the Gallery of Wood Art.

Located in downtown Saint Paul's historic Landmark Center, the Gallery of Wood Art offers an often surprising and always engaging view of contemporary works created in wood.

Tuesday May 6, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Outside Red Cap Room

Social or Tour

1:30pm CDT

Preconference: Digital Preservation Directions: Collaborative and Practical Approaches

Tuesday May 6, 2025 1:30pm - 4:30pm CDT

Red Cap Room

This workshop will explore the critical role cultural heritage staff play in balancing access and long-term preservation to digital content. Practical guidance on appraisal/selecting for preservation, assessment, and advocacy will equip attendees with actionable steps to begin or enhance their preservation efforts. Participants will also gain insights into the current landscape of the field by learning about collaborative models for digital preservation and emerging regional initiatives. Discussion time throughout the session will provide opportunities for participants to explore their current environment and plan for the future.

Speakers

Carol Kussmann

Digital Preservation Analyst, University of Minnesota Libraries

Carol Kussmann is the Digital Preservation Analyst at the University of Minnesota Libraries. In this role, she works across many departments within the Libraries, as well as outside the Libraries including through the statewide Minnesota Digital Library Program. She addresses current... Read More →

Justin Clark

Digital Initiatives Director, Indiana State Library

Justin Clark is a public historian and serves as the Digital Initiatives Director for the Indiana Historical Bureau, a division of the Indiana State Library. He holds a B.S. in History/Political Science from Indiana University Kokomo and a M.A. in Public History from Indiana University... Read More →

Chelsea Denault

Michigan Digital Preservation Network Coordinator, Michigan Digital Preservation Network

Tuesday May 6, 2025 1:30pm - 4:30pm CDT
Red Cap Room

Preconference

1:30pm CDT

Preconference: Digital Storytelling with Free KnightLab Tools

Tuesday May 6, 2025 1:30pm - 4:30pm CDT

Veterans Gallery

Attendees of this hands-on workshop will learn about free digital storytelling tools developed by the KnightLab at Northwestern University, including StoryMapJS and TimelineJS. Each participant will be able to work on sample projects using both tools, so they should bring a laptop to use or team up and share with a colleague. While these tools can be used to provide interpretive structure to any digital collection, we will start by using items from the Minnesota Digital Library. Participants will have the opportunity to work with their own digital collections if time allows.

Speakers

Stephanie Hess

Digital Curator, Minnesota Digital Library, Minnesota Digital Library

Stephanie Hess is the Digital Curator for the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL). She focuses on increasing the public's awareness of and engagement with the digital collections on MDL, primarily through social media and online exhibits. Previously, Stephanie worked in digitization and... Read More →

Tuesday May 6, 2025 1:30pm - 4:30pm CDT
Veterans Gallery

Preconference

1:30pm CDT

Preconference: Looking Ahead with CONTENTdm: Amplify Visibility of your Hidden Treasures

Tuesday May 6, 2025 1:30pm - 4:30pm CDT

Gateway Conference Room

Learn how CONTENTdm, the archival community’s landmark digital collection system, is evolving to help diverse institutions build, preserve, and showcase their digital objects with a hosted solution that maximizes discovery of your unique materials. In this interactive session participants will engage in activities and discussions focused on evaluating existing and potential digital collections workflows that leverage software like CONTENTdm and the collaborative environment of the wider special collections and cultural heritage ecosystem.

Speakers

Lily Troia

Library Consultant, Digital Collections US, OCLC

Lily is a librarian and archivist working directly with the digital collections community as part of the OCLC Library Services team. Her background in digital asset managent for libraries, museums, and archives, and experience with various repository platforms and other academic software... Read More →

Tuesday May 6, 2025 1:30pm - 4:30pm CDT
Gateway Conference Room

Preconference

2:30pm CDT

Preconference Snack Break

Tuesday May 6, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm CDT

A variety of bars, bottled water, and pepsi products will be available during the preconference break.

Tuesday May 6, 2025 2:30pm - 3:00pm CDT

Break or Lunch

2:30pm CDT

Local Tour: St. Paul Public Library

Tuesday May 6, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT

Outside Red Cap Room

Meet at 2:30 pm at the conference registration desk (outside the Red Cap Room) on the 2nd floor of the Union Depot. The tour leader will be Maggie Snow from Minitex.

The tour will take place from 3pm-4pm at St. Paul Public Library - George Latimer Central Library, 90 W. 4th St., St. Paul, MN. 55102.

St. Paul Public Library is .6 miles from the Union Depot, about a 15-minute walk from the Union Depot.

Tuesday May 6, 2025 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Outside Red Cap Room

Social or Tour

5:30pm CDT

Dine Arounds - TBD

Tuesday May 6, 2025 5:30pm - 7:30pm CDT

Sign-up sheets for dinner together at various restaurants in the area will be available at the conference registration desk.

More details to be announced.

Tuesday May 6, 2025 5:30pm - 7:30pm CDT

Social or Tour

8:30am CDT

Conference Registration

Wednesday May 7, 2025 8:30am - 9:00am CDT

Outside Red Cap Room

Wednesday May 7, 2025 8:30am - 9:00am CDT
Outside Red Cap Room

Break or Lunch

9:00am CDT

Welcome and Keynote

Wednesday May 7, 2025 9:00am - 10:45am CDT

Red Cap Room

Craig Stevens from Northwestern University IT and the Knight Lab will be the opening keynote speaker. He will discuss his work on augmented and virtual reality technologies that create captivating library-based experiences from university collections for visitors.

Speakers

Craig Stevens

Innovator in Residence, Northwesten University

Wednesday May 7, 2025 9:00am - 10:45am CDT
Red Cap Room

Keynote

10:45am CDT

Break

Wednesday May 7, 2025 10:45am - 11:00am CDT

Break or Lunch

11:00am CDT

IN-PERSON ONLY - Rebranding, Commemorating, and Collaborating: Expanding Digital Access at NAHA

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

Riverview Conference Room

Please note: This session is available to in-person attendees only and will not be streamed or recorded.

This session will explore how the Norwegian American Historical Association (NAHA) expanded access to its digital collections during a transformative year of rebranding, commemoration, and collaboration. NAHA unveiled a new visual identity and website while preparing to commemorate two significant milestones: 200 years of organized Norwegian migration and the organization’s centennial.

Key projects included an NEH-funded initiative to digitize World War II materials of transatlantic significance and a partnership with the National Library of Norway to make Norgesbrev (Norway letters) more accessible. NAHA’s archivist will discuss managing these projects, utilizing AI for transcription, engaging volunteers and students, and leveraging these efforts during a capital campaign to support the archives' future.

Speakers

Kristina Warner

Archivist, Norwegian American Historical Association

As archivist, Kristina leads the association’s preservation, digitization, and cataloging efforts. She earned both her B.F.A. and her Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In her training, she focused on archives and records... Read More →

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

Breakout Session

11:00am CDT

Migrating 3D Models from Sketchfab to Smithsonian Voyager Platform

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

Gateway Conference Room

This session will discuss the logistical process of migrating 3D digital models hosted on Sketchfab to a self-hosted instance of the Smithsonian's Voyager viewer. Motivated by the recent changes taking place at Sketchfab, I will discuss the advantages and challenges of this migration process in the context of a curator with limited web hosting experience. The session will be structured like a case study, plus room for discussion and questions.

Speakers

John Brigham

Heart Library Curator, University of Minnesota

I am a librarian with a background in Archives and Special Collections currently working in a library of anatomic donations at the University of Minnesota. This library has a large collection of preserved human hearts, plus digital imaging and 3D files.

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

Breakout Session

11:00am CDT

Preserving the Apocalypse: A Collaboration to Digitize and Share Historical Religious Manuscripts

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

Red Cap Room

In 1844, a man named William Miller predicted the end of the world. When the apocalypse didn’t come, he and his devoted followers were left reeling. However, out of their great disappointment came several new American Protestant churches that still operate today. This presentation outlines a collaboration between Aurora University in Illinois and Andrews University in Michigan to digitize, preserve, and share the personal papers of William Miller and other key Adventist leaders whose writings shed light on this interesting moment in American religious history. Aurora University, a former Advent Christian school, has historically valuable but disorganized and inaccessible special collections. Andrews University, affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, has a robust library digitization program and an open-source repository built with Samvera Hyku. Despite having no prior collaboration, this partnership benefits both universities. Aurora gains help in organizing and providing access to their collection, while Andrews gains valuable materials to share through their repository. This presentation will describe how we drafted a partnership agreement, the workflows we established to fulfill this project (including training AI-powered transcription software for handwritten documents), a timeline of our accomplishments so far, the challenges we've faced, and next steps.

Speakers

Katharine Van Arsdale

Digital Librarian, Andrews University / Adventist Digital Library

Katharine Van Arsdale is the Digital Librarian at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI. Since 2021, she has managed the Adventist Digital Library (ADL). ADL is a consortium of eleven Seventh-Day Adventist colleges and universities that collectively share a digitization center and... Read More →

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

Breakout Session

11:00am CDT

Recollection Wisconsin Digitization Initiative

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

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 →

Vito Bortolotti

Executive Director, Eagle River Historical Society

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

Breakout Session

11:45am CDT

Lunch

Wednesday May 7, 2025 11:45am - 1:00pm CDT

Break or Lunch

1:00pm CDT

Connecting the Dots: Gaining Insights by Creating and Exploring Data Analysis and Visualization Tools

Wednesday May 7, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT

Red Cap Room

Collecting data about our work can lead to new insights—especially when it's easy to explore and share. After tracking 4 years of digital archives processing activities and 10 years of file format inventories (including MDL content), we built data visualization dashboards for on-the-fly analysis. We will discuss the collaborative and iterative process of setting up our data sources and building these dashboards in Tableau, and how the interactive visualizations led to new discoveries and reporting efficiencies.

Speakers

Lara Friedman-Shedlov

Digital Records Archivist, University of Minnesota

Lara Friedman-Shedlov (she/they) is Digital Records Archivist for the Archives and Special Collections Department of the University of Minnesota Libraries. In this role, they coordinate and facilitate ingest, processing, and access for born digital archival material in the coll... Read More →

Mark Engelmann

Business Intelligence Analyst, University of Minnesota

Mark is a Business Intelligence Analyst at the University of Minnesota Libraries, in the Library Enterprise Systems department. His responsibilities include data reporting, analysis, and visualization—to help staff make data-driven decisions and to share the impacts of library work... Read More →

Carol Kussmann

Digital Preservation Analyst, University of Minnesota Libraries

Wednesday May 7, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT
Red Cap Room

Breakout Session

1:00pm CDT

IN-PERSON ONLY: Migrating Aggregation Servers: Lessons Learned by the Illinois Digital Heritage Hub

Wednesday May 7, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT

Riverview Conference Room

Please note: This session is available to in-person attendees only and will not be streamed or recorded.

In 2024, the Illinois Digital Heritage Hub (IDHH), the Illinois Hub for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), completed the migration of our aggregation server from a legacy system (REPOX) to an open source one created by DPLA’s Michigan Hub (Combine). In this session, the IDHH Project Coordinator will share the background and method of this project, including the successes, challenges, and lessons learned from this migration of aggregation server systems and how they can be applied to similar projects.

Speakers

Megan Pearson

Illinois Digital Heritage Hub (IDHH)

Wednesday May 7, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT
Riverview Conference Room

Breakout Session

1:00pm CDT

Old Format, New Tricks: Digitizing Microform Resources for Computational Analysis

Wednesday May 7, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT

Gateway Conference Room

Northwestern University Libraries holds one of the largest collections of Environmental Impact Studies in the US. Many of these documents are available on microfiche, and that fiche is sometimes our only version of the item in the collection. These reports are a trove of information about federal infrastructure projects, discuss the potential social and environmental effects of those projects, and often include public comments and sentiment.

Working with our Digital Scholarship colleagues and faculty members who wish to use these items for computational study, the Digital Products and Data Curation team has modified existing digital project workflows to digitize and provide access to these reports. This project required an examination of our existing workflows, proactive conversations between the digital projects staff, librarians, and researchers, and solutions for providing the content in both human- and machine-readable outputs.

This presentation provides a detailed case study of an on-going digitization project utilizing new processes and equipment as well as an overview of how Northwestern University Libraries Digital Products and Data Curation staff are thinking about the diverse ways that digital objects can be analyzed by researchers and how those use cases affect how we digitize, preserve and provide access to our resources.

Speakers

Veronica Robinson

Digital Asset Coordinator, Northwestern University Libraries, Northwestern University

Wednesday May 7, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT
Gateway Conference Room

Breakout Session

1:00pm CDT

Using the Crowd: How Crowdsourcing Can Improve Accessibility

Wednesday May 7, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT

Veterans Gallery

Digitization is about more than imaging. It can also be about using human and machine-readable pathways and discovery systems to broaden access to the widest range of users. In the past, digitization of archival collections has focused on capturing and accessing images of hand-written material. In the current cultural heritage environment, providing access to images of archival textual material alone is not enough. Today’s archival collections need to be searchable and transcribable. This session will discuss how the University Libraries uses technology such as OCR and AI and also uses the public to explore and transcribe digitized texts. We will talk about how archives are crowdsourcing digitized transcripts with students, staff and the public.

Speakers

Anne Hinseth

Library Technology Librarian, University of South Dakota

Anne Hinseth is the Library Technology Librarian for the University of South Dakota. Anne is responsible for electronic resource management, digital library cataloging and technology planning, implementation and training. Anne is a graduate of Augustana University, Sioux Falls... Read More →

Danielle De Jager-Loftus

Associate Professor, Technology/Art, Music, Theatre Librarian, University of South Dakota

Danielle De Jager-Loftus is Associate Professor at the University of South Dakota, and liaison to the College of Fine Arts. She manages USD’s digital library and institutional repository, as well as other digital programs. De Jager-Loftus has led presentations and published articles... Read More →

Wednesday May 7, 2025 1:00pm - 1:45pm CDT
Veterans Gallery

Breakout Session

1:45pm CDT

Break

Wednesday May 7, 2025 1:45pm - 2:00pm CDT

Break or Lunch

2:00pm CDT

IN-PERSON ONLY: Community and User-Centered Description

Wednesday May 7, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT

Gateway Conference Room

Please note: This session is available to in-person attendees only and will not be streamed or recorded.

Florida State University and the Sunshine State Digital Network have been working to implement inclusive description practices in our online repositories and discovery layers. Through inclusive description centered on an active, critical awareness of bias, privilege, and power and an ethos of deliberate care used in the assessment, creation, and refinement of descriptive texts we are increasing accessibility of our collections in unserved and underserved communities seeking meaningful connections with their histories. Learn about our approach and how these practices can be implemented to expand access and increase discovery of content.

Speakers

Keila Zayas Ruiz

Sunshine State Digital Network

Wednesday May 7, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
Gateway Conference Room

Breakout Session

2:00pm CDT

Mapping Co-Created Knowledge

Wednesday May 7, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT

Veterans Gallery

If we want to use research to make meaningful change, we need to intentionally bring people into the creation of new knowledge. From our base in the University of Minnesota Libraries, Mapping Prejudice collaborates with community members to expose the history of structural racism by weaving together digital humanities tools and crowdsourcing technologies into a public history practice. We mobilize community members to identify and map racial covenants, clauses that were inserted into property deeds to keep people who were not White from buying or occupying homes. As we invite people into this process, we need to ensure we are not perpetuating harm or re-traumatizing the communities most impacted by the historical legacies we are unearthing.

To address this, we are developing an interdisciplinary crowdsourcing model, creating culturally sensitive community mapping sessions tailored to the needs of Black and Brown participants. Our team believes that the impact of data is determined by the way that it is created. For Mapping Prejudice to have a lasting impact, we are continuously refining our crowdsourcing process, ensuring our community engagement work centers the communities most impacted by the history of racial covenants and supports productive dialogue around racial inequities today. This presentation will share the ongoing learnings, challenges, questions, tips, and successes from this work.

Speakers

Rebecca Gillette

University of Minnesota

Amelia Palacios

Wednesday May 7, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
Veterans Gallery

Breakout Session

2:00pm CDT

MDL at 20: Past, Present, and Future Directions

Wednesday May 7, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT

Red Cap Room

Join Greta Bahnemann, the Minnesota Digital Library’s Metadata Librarian, as we celebrate the program’s twentieth anniversary. Session participants will learn about the beginnings of the Minnesota Digital Library and how its programs and services have evolved over the past twenty years. Greta will cover the evolution of this statewide digital collection from its inception, the growth of its contributor base, the addition of an increasing range of materials, the hiring of professional staff, and the creation of metadata standards. MDL staff will also share an overview of more recent efforts in digital storytelling, the adoption of standardized rights statements for the collection, and the development of our social media presence, as well as our ongoing relationship with the Digital Public Library of America.

The presentation will then conclude with an activity for the participants. Attendees will be invited to provide input on and ideas for the Minnesota Digital Library’s future directions via a collaborative whiteboard with sticky notes.There will also be ample time for questions.

Speakers

Greta Bahnemann

Metadata Coordinator, Minitex

Greta Bahnemann is the Metadata Librarian for the Minnesota Digital Library, a position she has held since 2010. At the Minnesota Digital Library, Greta is responsible for implementing current metadata standards and best practices, spearheading the MDL Primary Source Set program... Read More →

Wednesday May 7, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT
Red Cap Room

Breakout Session

2:00pm CDT

RECORDING ONLY: Assessing Description Guidelines of Born-Digital Materials

Wednesday May 7, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT

Please note: This session will not be live. A recording will be made available after the conference.

The American Philosophical Society’ collection contains over 6.8 terabytes of digital records as of a 2019 survey, with that number growing ever presently. With the endowment of two digital archivist positions, the Society is looking into ingesting and making available this backlog and digital records that are coming with newer acquisitions. Part of this goal is to see what has already been done in regards to how institutions organize and represent born-digital materials in their finding aids. This was a task that was given to me early on when I started as an Assistant Digital Archivist. This presentation aims at discussing the process and some findings of looking at 6 different institutions published guidelines for born-digital description. I examined the different metadata elements they recommend, their respective changes when it comes to born-digital materials, and the future steps APS can take. I also will talk about how, as a new professional, this job and tasks affected me and how I view this job. This talk can benefit others who work with these types of materials, and develop a conversation about how to best approach their description and representation.

Speakers

Elias Larralde

American Philosophical Society

Wednesday May 7, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm CDT

Breakout Session

2:45pm CDT

Break with Cake

Wednesday May 7, 2025 2:45pm - 3:15pm CDT

Red Cap Room

Wednesday May 7, 2025 2:45pm - 3:15pm CDT
Red Cap Room

Break or Lunch

3:15pm CDT

Archives Content Management Systems: Lessons from the Field

Wednesday May 7, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm CDT

Red Cap Room

Archives content management systems (CMS) provide integrated support for archival workflows, including arrangement and description, accessioning, access and managing records. But is a content management system right for your shop? Attendees will learn what questions to ask when evaluating current workflows to the functionality of a proposed system - all to analyze whether or not a content management system, including open-source, is right for their institution. Attendees will hear from an archives that used two open source content management systems since 2009 regarding the challenges and benefits. In addition, the session will discuss how successful – or not - a recent migration into Access to Memory (AtoM) was.

Speakers

Edward Warga

Library Systems and Discovery Specialist, St. Cloud State University

Digital librarian currently working as the Library Systems and Discovery Specialist at St. Cloud State University Library.

Tom Steman

St. Cloud State University

Wednesday May 7, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm CDT
Red Cap Room

Breakout Session

3:15pm CDT

Enhancing Digital Collections through Wikimedia Commons

Wednesday May 7, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm CDT

Gateway Conference Room

In this presentation, Indiana State Library's Digital Initiatives director Justin Clark will discuss how collections from Indiana Memory and Hoosier State Chronicles, among others, have been added to Wikimedia Commons, improving existing Wikipedia pages and expanding access to digitized images. He'll also discuss ISL's public programming to coincide with these collections, including participating and hosting Wiki Edit-a-Thons for historians and librarians. In sum, attendees will learn about Indiana Memory and Hoosier State Chronicles as digital repositories, their integration with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), and ultimately their use on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, and how said initiatives can be used for public educational events.

Speakers

Justin Clark

Digital Initiatives Director, Indiana State Library

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Wednesday May 7, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm CDT
Gateway Conference Room

Breakout Session

3:15pm CDT

The Driftless River Initiative: Harnessing a Collection’s Potential for Creating New Knowledge

Wednesday May 7, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm CDT

Veterans Gallery

Murphy Library at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse officially launched the Driftless River Initiative (DRI) in the spring of 2024 with the aim of utilizing digital collections in harnessing the collective informational impact of unique and rare library collections on the historical-, contemporary-, and future-research related to the Upper Mississippi River and the Driftless (unglaciated) Region of western Wisconsin. This exciting Initiative is rooted in the interdisciplinary approach to creating new knowledge through making information accessible and discoverable; preserving that information for future iterations of inquiry; and facilitating new connections between researchers, disciplines, and institutions to further enhance our knowledge and understanding of the natural environment, Wisconsin’s freshwater resources, and the mutual impact these unique geomorphic features and our presence have on each other. This compelling project is unique as it is built upon collections, some that have existed at Murphy Library for decades, that are seemingly distinct, yet all are connected through the Mississippi River and/or the unglaciated region of western Wisconsin; through employing a digital collections infrastructure, the project allows us to rethink collection building and how to enhance engagement with the materials, both digitally and physically. This presentation will discuss the circumstances leading up to launch of the DRI at Murphy Library, where the project currently stands, and what the hopes are for the project moving forward.

Speakers

David Mindel

Digital Collections Librarian, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

David Mindel is the digital collections librarian at the University of Wisconsin- La Crosse. Prior to this position, he received his MA in library and information studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and subsequently served as a Digital Conversion Specialist at the Library... Read More →

Wednesday May 7, 2025 3:15pm - 4:00pm CDT
Veterans Gallery

Breakout Session