Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:51:55 -0500 From: Debbie Cardinal <cardinal@wils.wisc.edu> Subject: WHO News #19, April 2011 Message-id: <002301cbf60d$44bf5a30$ce3e0e90$@wisc.edu>
April 2011 #19
CONTENTS
News of the Day <http://www.wils.wisc.edu/email/WHO/whonews19.html>
Featured Collections <http://www.wils.wisc.edu/email/WHO/whonews19.html>
Project News <http://www.wils.wisc.edu/email/WHO/whonews19.html>
Events to Note <http://www.wils.wisc.edu/email/WHO/whonews19.html>
News of the Day
La Crosse Public Library helps raise the bar for StoryCorps
Anita Taylor Doering, Archivist, and Jeanne Klug-Hefte, Cataloger, La Crosse
Public Library, share their story
<http://www.oclc.org/news/membership/2011/announcement2.htm> .
This past summer, the La Crosse Public Library
<http://www.lacrosselibrary.org/> cosponsored a traveling StoryCorps
<http://storycorps.org/> trailer. The StoryCorps program sponsors a small
fleet of mobile trailers that travel throughout the United States to record,
share, and preserve people's stories. La Crosse Public Library and the local
NPR station, WLSU (at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) jumped on the
opportunity to be one of those lucky StoryCorps destinations.
After the StoryCorps trailer was parked in front of the library building,
archivist Anita Taylor Doering discovered that the library was eligible to
receive the recordings of the interviews conducted in La Crosse. At that
moment, she committed the library to not only entering the records of these
interviews into the library's local catalog, but also into WorldCat to make
the recordings more globally available.
When the library received the 116 interviews recorded on an external hard
drive, along with the notes from the StoryCorps facilitators and the
permission documentation that accompanied each interview, the library staff
went to work on the cataloging. A team from technical services, well-versed
in dealing with "special collections," headed up the physical processing as
well as cataloging.
As part of the contract, La Crosse Public Library doesn't have the rights to
broadcast the interviews in their entirety via their Web site, but the staff
created CDs to circulate locally to the community and make them available
more broadly through interlibrary loan.
La Crosse was one of the first-if not the first-partner library StoryCorps
has worked with to create an item-level record for each interview.
StoryCorps has been so impressed with the quality of the cataloging that
they are considering using the records as a template for bibliographic
records of StoryCorps interviews nationally. To view samples of these
records on WorldCat <http://www.worldcat.org/> or FirstSearch
<http://firstsearch.oclc.org/> , or the library's local catalog, simply
search "StoryCorps La Crosse" in the keyword search to retrieve all 116
interviews. If the parts specific to StoryCorps were removed, any library
could use this template for any oral interview or oral history.
Mini-grants available for Wisconsin Historical Society affiliates
Interested in starting a digital project but don't have the right equipment?
If your organization is an affiliate of the Wisconsin Historical Society,
you're eligible to apply for a grant of up to $700 from the Society and the
Wisconsin Council for Local History. Many groups have used these funds to
acquire computers, scanners, and digital cameras.
The application deadline is June 3, 2011. For more information, see
www.wisconsinhistory.org/localhistory/grants
<http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/localhistory/grants/> . Feel free to
contact WHO staff to discuss equipment recommendations before you apply.
Featured Collections
The March on Milwaukee: Civil Rights History Project
The March on Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project
<http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/march/index.cfm> from the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is newly harvested into the Wisconsin Heritage Online
portal.
This project seeks to make Milwaukee's place in the national struggle for
racial equality more accessible, engaging, and interactive. The digital
collection supports understanding of the civil rights movement by helping
users discover primary sources and other educational materials from the
collections of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries and the
Wisconsin Historical Society. The collection includes the selected papers of
individuals representing a variety of positions on the civil rights issue,
photographs, unedited footage from the WTMJ-TV news film archives, and oral
history interviews capturing the recollections and perspectives of
individuals who participated in the movement. The collection also includes
contextual materials, such as brief explanations of relevant people, places,
events, and organizations; a timeline; a bibliography of relevant published
sources; and maps highlighting important locations.
Milwaukee Public Museum Bandolier Bags
Curators and IT staff at the Milwaukee Public Museum have made twenty-four
Wisconsin bandolier bags from their Anthropology Collection available for
harvesting by Wisconsin Heritage Online. The example shown here is an Ojibwe
bag collected from the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation. If you search
"bandolier bag" in the WHO portal,wisconsinheritage.org, you'll find
sixty-eight records from content providers and collections all over the
state.
Project News
South Wood County Historical Museum
The South Wood County Historical Museum <http://www.swch-museum.com/> in
Wisconsin Rapids has been busy adding images to their digital collection
<http://content.mpl.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/swch> . 400 photographs by
Dan Krohn, the city newspaper photographer in the 1940s and 50s, are now
online in South Wood's digital collection hosted by the Milwaukee Public
Library.
In addition, South Wood County has hosted several public events-or "photo
thingies," as the group calls them-to find out more about the people and
places depicted in their photo collections. The local history buffs who
attended the slideshow presentations shared lots of information that has now
been added to the digital collection. For instance, we now know it's Gayle
Jacobson Jagodzinski who's holding the cat in this photo by Lawrence Oliver.
Events to Note
Convening Culture Keepers mini-conference, Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe
Community College, April 14-15
This event is the second in a series of mini-conferences
<http://www.slis.wisc.edu/438.htm> designed as professional development
opportunities for Wisconsin-based tribal cultural workers. On Thursday
evening April 14, Joe Hermolin of the Langlade County Historical Society and
Emily Pfotenhauer, WHO Outreach Specialist, will share Langlade County's
collection of tribal photographs by Arthur Kingsbury with conference
participants. Monique Tyndall, head of special collections at the College of
Menominee Nation, will discuss her plans to work with WHO to digitize
Menominee termination and restoration materials. Along with scheduled
workshops on photographic care, museum collections, and
culturally-appropriate library materials for kids, the gathering will
include tours of the LCO Ojibwe Community College and a Friday afternoon
lunch provided by the LCO Elders Association. If you'd like to receive
information about future gatherings contact coordinator Omar Poler,
poler@wisc.edu.
Preservation Week, nationwide, April 24-30
Some 630 million items in collecting institutions throughout the country
require immediate attention and care. Eighty percent of these institutions
have no paid staff assigned responsibility for collections care; 22 percent
have no collections care personnel at all. Some 2.6 billion items are not
protected by an emergency plan. As natural disasters of recent years have
taught us, these resources are in jeopardy should a disaster strike.
Personal, family, and community collections are equally at risk.
American Library Association encourages libraries and other institutions to
use Preservation Week
<http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/preswk/index.cfm> to
connect our communities through events, activities, and resources that
highlight what we can do, individually and together, to preserve our
personal and shared collections.
It is easy to get involved:
* Create a display about preserving and collecting personal, family, or
community heritage
* Offer a preservation workshop or event or
* Highlight Preservation Week on your web site with a link to ALA's
Preservation Week resources.
* Add your Preservation Event to the 2011 Preservation Week Event Map
<http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=108978710953426820099.000
4880c6f1e1fe34e1c1&ll=36.315125,-82.089844&spn=53.764806,71.367188&z=4> .
* View the Facebook event
<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=182325091778335> and RSVP or Share
it. Tweet about Preservation Week #preswk.
Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries Annual Conference, Madison, May
4-6
WHO will be represented at the 2011 WAPL conference
<http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/wapl/conferences/2011/> as part of the Thursday
afternoon panel Adventures in Digitization: Digital Collections. Panel
members who have worked with public libraries of various sizes will discuss
their experience in creating digital collections, including the successful
implementation of digitization procedures and how they were able to overcome
obstacles.
Panelists: Rose Fortier (Milwaukee Public Library), Bradley Shipps
(Outagamie Waupaca Library System), Andy Barnett (McMillan Memorial
Library), Emily Pfotenhauer (Wisconsin Heritage Online; Wisconsin Library
Services), Sharon Schwartz (Oshkosh Public Library)
Conference registration
<http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/wapl/conferences/2011/registration.htm> deadline
is April 15, 2011.
Introduction to Using Past Perfect 4.0, Madison, May 20
The Wisconsin Federation of Museums is offering a day-long workshop for
beginning users of PastPerfect 4.0. Can't make it to Madison? You can also
participate online! More information and registration >>
<http://wisconsinmuseums.org/workshops.php> .
Understanding Digital Images: Basic to Intermediate Concepts, Minneapolis,
May 27
Sponsored by Minitex, this day-long series of presentations will guide the
participant from the very basics of digital images to intermediate-level
concepts, giving them the essential knowledge to embark on further
exploration. Sessions cover the basics of digital image files, the mechanics
of digitization, intermediate concepts such as colorspace and profiles, and
suggestions for setting up computers for imaging work.
Register <http://www.minitex.umn.edu/Training/Details.aspx?SessionID=334>
for "Understanding Digital Images: Basic to Intermediate Concepts"
<http://www.minitex.umn.edu/Training/Details.aspx?SessionID=334>
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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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