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Educational Resources

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Perspectives on Digital History

  • Amy Friedlander, "Digits and Dreams: Scholarship and Computing in the Age of Abundance," paper presented at Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland, September 2008
  • InterConnections: IMLS National Study on the Use of Libraries, Museums, and the Internet
    • The study concludes that "the amount of use of the Internet is positively correlated with the number of in-person visits to museums and has a positive effect on in-person visits to public libraries."
  • Bonnie G. Wilson, "Up Close and Personal," Minnesota Digital Library
    • Reflections on what can be learned from a historic photograph
  • Christine von Oertzen, "New Ways of Using Digital Images: Recommendations Concerning the Free Use of Visual Media for Scholarly Purposes," Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
  • Don Litzer and Andy Barnett, "Local History in E-Books and on the Web," Reference and User Services Quarterly v. 43, no. 3 (2004)
    • An early project to digitize local history materials at the McMillan Memorial Library in Wisconsin Rapids

 

Online Tutorials  

 

 

Online Reference 

 

 

Mailing Lists, Groups, Blogs, and More 

 

 

  • The Museum Computer Network (MCN) supports the greater museum community by providing continuing opportunities to explore, implement, and disseminate new technologies and best practices in the field.
  • D-Lib Magazine is an online journal focusing on digital library research and development, including new technologies, applications, and contextual social and economic issues.
  • Digitization 101, a blog by digitization consultant Jill Hurst-Wahl

 

 

Related Projects and Resources in Wisconsin

  • The Wisconsin Records Assessment Project is a statewide effort to asses archival documentation on recent Wisconsin history, funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
  • The Wisconsin Archives Mentoring Service seeks to match professional volunteer archivists with small cultural institutions that need assistance in the preservation of their unique collections of historical material. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board and UW-Oshkosh.
  • The Wisconsin Historical Society's Local Field Services Program offers support to local historical societies throughout the state.
  • Found in Wisconsin is an online collections index used to search for and link into digitized books, photographs, videos and other resources available on the websites of libraries, historical societies and museums statewide, sponsored by Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Resources for Libraries and Lifelong Learning

 

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