Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:25:47 -0500 From: Debbie Cardinal <cardinal@wils.wisc.edu> Subject: WHO News #16 Message-id: <69E53B3CDB0943E1A201A72354F818D5@OCLCA>
Dear Colleagues,
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Wisconsin Heritage Online News
July 2010 #16
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News of <http://www.wils.wisc.edu/email/WHO/whonews16.html#news#news> the
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Featured
<http://www.wils.wisc.edu/email/WHO/whonews16.html#collections#collections>
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Project
<http://www.wils.wisc.edu/email/WHO/whonews16.html#projectnews#projectnews>
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WHO
<http://www.wils.wisc.edu/email/WHO/whonews16.html#resourceswiki#resourceswi
ki> Resources Wiki
Events <http://www.wils.wisc.edu/email/WHO/whonews16.html#events#events> to
Note
News of the Day
Refresh Content Harvest Update
University of Wisconsin-Madison DoIT has resumed harvesting data from
collection sites that were harvested prior to June 2009. In June 2010, the
Wisconsin Heritage Online portal had nearly 52,000 items in forty-four
different collections from eleven different server sites around the state.
You can search Wisconsin Heritage Online at wisconsinheritage.org
<http://wisconsinheritage.org/> . If you want to review a list of the
collections in WHO, choose the Guided Search option and use the Any
Sub-collection pull-down list.
When we are once again harvesting from new sites and collections, we will
add data from South Wood County Historical Society, Richland County History
Room, Museum at the Portage, Hales Corners Historical Society, McMillan
Memorial Library Digital Collections, and Villa Terrace Decorative Arts
Museum. These collections are all hosted by the Milwaukee Public Library. We
hope to include these collections in a fall harvest.
Is Your Organization Interested in Digitization?
Emily Pfotenhauer
Emily Pfotenhauer, Wisconsin Heritage Online Outreach Specialist, has time
to discuss with you whether a digital project is a good fit for you and WHO.
Emily's services are free through June 2011. After that, who knows? Talk to
her now! It takes between six months and two years to get a digital project
organized and online at the Milwaukee Public Library's hosted CONTENTdm
server. Contact Emily at 608 265-2138 or server. Contact Emily at 608 265-2138 or epfotenhauer@wils.wisc.edu.
WHO on Facebook
<http://www.facebook.com/WisconsinHeritage> WHO's on Facebook
Heritage Online posts periodic tidbits and selected images from the
Wisconsin Heritage Online portal. It's a great way to have images from your
collections seen by people who may not be your usual clientele. You can see
images from other collections that may complement something in your
collection or you can post a comment or image from your collection which
adds to something on the Facebook site. "Like" us at Facebook
<http://www.facebook.com/WisconsinHeritage> WisconsinHeritage!
Featured Collections
Blanchardville Historical Society
Another new WHO collection comes from the Blanchardville Historical Society.
Volunteers at the Society scanned and cataloged two local history books
published by the Blanchardville Woman's Club. Nicknamed the Red Book and the
<http://content.mpl.org/blanchardvillehistory> Purple Book by local
residents, these popular publications feature photos and histories of
community life in Blanchardville from the 1840s up to the 1980s.
Red Book
Neville Public Museum Digital History, the Lost Soldiers
Neville Public Museum, guided by Louise Pfotenhauer, has been using Save Our
History grant monies from the History Channel to digitize World War One
materials from the Brown County War History Committee. The materials include
each soldier's application record and often a photograph; in addition,
letters and diaries are added for many soldiers. There are over 650 soldiers
available now with a total of 1721 planned at project completion. One of the
poignant aspects of this historical collection is the number of family
members represented, brothers in most cases I expect, but sometimes cousins
or father and son. Do a search
<http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/npmh> on the
Gussert, Kaczmarzinski, and Lally surnames. Can you figure out what
relationship the soldiers have? Don't you wonder what happened to these
people?
Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum
On July 14 Milwaukee's Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum will open the
exhibition Cyril Colnik: A New Look is on View which features a selection
from the Colnik Archives and will introduce the Museum's collaboration with
Wisconsin Heritage Online. The Archives consist of nearly 1,000 original
drawings, blueprints and photographs from the papers of noted Milwaukee
metalworker Cyril Colnik. This material is extremely fragile and concerns
over conservation limit public access to this important collection. The
Museum's partnership with WHO brings this material to a broader audience
through a searchable online database <http://content.mpl.org/villaterrace> .
The digitization of the Colnik Archive complements another digital
collection available through WHO, the Wisconsin
<http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/decorativearts> Decorative Arts
Database, which includes 47 artifacts from the Museum's collections made by
Colnik and the Colnik Manufacturing Co.
Cyril Colnik: A New Look is on View is on view at the Villa Terrace
Decorative Arts Museum July 14-September 26, 2010. More information about
the exhibit and related events is available from the Museum's website
<http://www.villaterracemuseum.org/exhibitions.html> .
Project News
Tales of Old Portage
The Portage Historical Society has been working with Wisconsin Heritage
Online for more than half a year on the best way to develop use of a unique
resource. This WHO collection features articles from the "Tales of Old
Portage" series written by local historian Dorothy McCarthy for the Portage
Daily Register, 1958-1975. See content.mpl.org/portagemuseum to explore the
collection.
Newest projects in the works
St.Norbert College in DePere and the New Berlin Historical Society are the
latest organizations to tackle a digitization project with WHO. Both groups
will digitize historic photographs and make them available through CONTENTdm
collections hosted by the Milwaukee Public Library.
Volunteers at the New Berlin Historical Society will scan and catalog a
group of glass lantern slides documenting the Swartz Brothers Cornfalfa
Farms, widely known in the early 20th century for innovative and
experimental farming techniques. To read more about Emily's visit to New
Berlin in June, check out our Facebook
<http://www.facebook.com/WisconsinHeritage?v=app_2347471856&ref=sgm> page.
Staff members at St. Norbert College's Miriam B. and James J. Mulva Library
are preparing to create a digital collection of 2,500+ images of life on
campus since the early 1900s. The library will host a "picture night" during
the college's 50th reunion and share the images online with other alumni in
order to discover more information about the photos.
WHO Resources Wiki
Are You Subscribed?
The Wisconsin Heritage Online resources wiki
<https://wilsnet-wiheritage.pbworks.com/FrontPage> is a terrific resource
if your organization is planning to digitize a fragile or unique collection
of any kind of material. You can join Wisconsin Heritage Online for as
little as $50 per year! In addition to planning resources, there are links
to useful professional websites everywhere.
Events to Note
Hosted-WHO list serve
In April, we set up a list serve for content providers with collections
hosted by Wisconsin Historical Society or Milwaukee Public Library. List
members are invited to share new digital content, post questions about
digitization, and discuss ways to promote digital collections. List
administrators will also post updates about training opportunities, new
resources, etc. If we didn't sign you up at set-up in April you can
subscribe yourself here
<http://www.wils.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/hosted_who> .
Upcoming event: Northwoods Regional Meeting
An ongoing collaboration between WHO and the Langlade County Historical
Society will be featured at the Northwoods Regional Meeting of the Wisconsin
Council for Local History and the Wisconsin Historical Society on August 28.
Langlade County Historical Society president Joe Hermolin and WHO Outreach
Specialist Emily Pfotenhauer will discuss the digitization of the Arthur J.
Kingsbury Photography Collection. Langlade County and WHO are working with
students in the Tribal Libraries, Archives and Museums class at UW-Madison's
School of Library and Information Studies to research and catalog
Kingsbury's photographs of Ojibwe and Menominee Indians in northern
Wisconsin in the early 20th century.
Registration information and a full agenda for the meeting, which will take
place at the Antigo Public Library on August 28, are available from the
Wisconsin
<http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/localhistory/pdfs/Agenda-Northwoods.pdf>
Historical Society.
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Principal writer and editor, Debbie Cardinal <mailto:cardinal@wils.wisc.edu>
. Contributions from Emily Pfotenhauer <mailto:epfotenhauer@wils.wisc.edu> .
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