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Collaboration With Contentdm: Building Local History Collections, Rose Fortier, Emily Pfotenhauer
Collaboration With Contentdm: Building Local History Collections, Rose Fortier, Emily Pfotenhauer
Rose Fortier
An exploration of collaboration between institutions for the creation of digital collections using CONTENTdm. Wisconsin Heritage Online and the Milwaukee Public Library reveal how they were able to enter into a partnership to host digital collections from smaller institutions who would not be able to afford to purchase or subscribe CONTENTdm on their own.
The Milwaukee Public Library's Digital Projects: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Digital Collections, Rose Fortier
The Milwaukee Public Library's Digital Projects: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Digital Collections, Rose Fortier
Rose Fortier
Part of a series of presentations given at a panel discussion at the 2011 WAPL conference. The panel was called "Adventures in Digitization: Digital Collections" and included digitization efforts from six different public libraries of varying sizes. Panel members who had worked with public libraries of various sizes discussed their experiences in creating digital collections, including the successful implementation of digitization procedures and how they were able to overcome obstacles. This presentation covers experiences and collections from the Milwaukee Public Library
Virtual Memories: Organizing And Digitizing Your Photos, Rose Fortier
Virtual Memories: Organizing And Digitizing Your Photos, Rose Fortier
Rose Fortier
A presentation given at a Milwaukee Public Library program on organizing and digitizing personal photos. Patrons were given information on scanning, photo editing, and sharing photo for the creation of personal digital collections.
Historic Recipe File (Digital Collection), Rose Fortier
Historic Recipe File (Digital Collection), Rose Fortier
Rose Fortier
For over 20 years, from the 1960s until the 1980s, librarians at the Milwaukee Public Library clipped hundreds of recipes from the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel. These recipes were heavily used at Ready Reference to answer telephone questions relating to various recipes. Before recipes were readily available on the internet, someone in the Milwaukee area looking for a particular recipe or cooking technique would call Ready Reference. These clipped recipes form the nucleus of the Historic Recipe File digital collection. Many of Milwaukee's favorite foods appear in the recipes in this collection. This collection provides a fascinating glimpse into …