Over the past three years, WiLS has served as a mentor organization for two cohorts of small and rural libraries undertaking community memory projects, thanks to the Accelerating Promising Practices funding opportunity from IMLS. (For more information on the program, check out our previous blog posts here and here.) The second cohort began their work… READ MORE
by Sarah Lundquist, Curating Indigenous Digital Collections Fellow My position as Curating Indigenous Digital Collections (CIDC) Fellow with WiLS began in May 2021. Now approaching the New Year, the fellowship has just recently passed the halfway mark! This is a perfect opportunity to reflect and share on the progress of my work in this role… READ MORE
In Fall 2019, WiLS began a cooperative agreement with the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to mentor a cohort of ten small, rural, and tribal libraries around the country awarded grants for community memory projects. This summer, as they head into the home stretch of their grants, cohort members have shared short presentations… READ MORE
by Ellen Brooks, Community Memory & Digital Archives Consultant In September of 2020, a second cohort of small, rural, and tribal libraries from around the country embarked on community memory projects thanks to the Accelerating Promising Practices funding opportunity from IMLS. Once again, WiLS is serving as a mentor organization. From September 2020 through August 2022, Emily… READ MORE
This blog post is contributed by Maxwell Gray, a graduate student at the UW-Madison iSchool. Max is one of four practicum and independent study students WiLS is hosting (virtually) from the iSchool this fall. The students are working with Molli Pauliot and Dr. Stephen Kantrowitz of the Department of History at UW-Madison, using Mukurtu CMS… READ MORE